skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you have an outdated view of what a stock really is.

Yeah many people tend to believe that "everything has changed" every once in a while.

There are records of claims like that since the mid 17th century and continously thereafter.

The way I see it things tend to repeat themselves and never really change in the stock market. A more historical point of view could be eye-opening, at least it was for me.

> That doesn't seem to be where the value is pegged.

It is in a way or the other. In case of Apple there's a pretty direct evidence, in other cases it's more indirect.

You could see it as a floor price. Companies can be valued way more than the value they produce/own but it's difficult that they are valued less than that.

Cannot say the same of a token.

> The same way you can sell the token to another speculator.

The whole point here is that you DO NOT have to necessarily rely on other people expectations to make/loose money with a stock.

You DO have to with a token. That's the difference between speculation and investing.

Why is that? Say a company keeps on generating profits and making buybacks yet the price keeps on falling: it won't be long before it gets noticed by people with enough resources who can take control and distribute dividends.

This inefficiency is so easy to exploit that de facto the market just aknowledges the value pushing the price up.

Yes of course you can also treat a stock as a token and just speculate on it, just base your decisions on what other people will think that the others will think that you'll think etc.

But you don't have to ! You do have a choice, which a token doesn't give you.
My god, finally something that explodes as easily as all cars do in the movies.
Also fails constantly when you're doing certain physical tasks. It becomes nearly useless after a few hours of doing landscaping work.
It's a bit buried, the important part is in section 4, this one:

Any person who intentionally, by means of any communication whatsoever, communicates to one or more persons in a manner that [...] is threatening, abusive or insulting towards any other person or group of persons.

Further down:

[...] which demonstrates a clear intention [...] to [...] bring into contempt or ridicule, any person or group of persons, based on race, gender, sex, which includes intersex, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, religion, belief, culture, language, birth, disability, HIV status, nationality, gender identity [...] is guilty of the offence of hate speech.

So the definition of hate-speech, which carries a criminal penalty of up-to 3-10 years, now includes communication that is "abusive or insulting". Which is a very vague concept, and I don't think there is any clear expansion on it in the bill itself.

Hopefully the wording changes before it gets passed. Otherwise I'm going to have to take my family out of this country for fear of political persecution. What else do you call it when insult and ridicule against groups becomes hate-speech.

Edit. Fixed penalty years, up to.
Relatively low cost, yes. But all those recovery efforts, offshore barges, added hardware and software cost actual money that was away from their gross margin from the rocket launches.

It was a good move regardless but don't underestimate the amount of time and money spent.
That won't work you can never know if the driver sees you or other cars, this is actually a very common problem at intersections. Drivers look for cars and slow down, people walk/bicycle over thinking the driver has seen them. This is how people die at intersections.
> lack of funding on solving the hard problems in this field

Also some of the hard problems like spam detections are only ads related. If you build a decentralized social network you don't face those
Nix and Guix node packages are 8.2 and 8.1 respectively. Nix can't seem to find a couchdb package and guix is 1.6.1

Arch package have node 8.5.0 and couch is 2.1.0

When I read blogs about new software and I can't just packagemanager install/update it on I don't really see any more value than living on windows installing exe's from websites.

Every distro I've used except arch has a real case of documentation not living up to what's actually happening. I've used fedora a lot and it's sometimes hard to find current version docs. But what's worse it hard to know if 2+ versions ago docs are ok because that particular bit hasn't changed.
Disable Javascript for that site and it reads normally. I've found that most news sites become much more readable (and chew through far less of my CPU, and stop autoplaying loud videos, and skip paywalls) with JS disabled.

The Chrome plugin I'm using (Quick Javascript Switcher) disables on a per-domain basis and remembers the setting for each.

I'm a huge fan of SPAs and JS in the browser and yet I'm quickly blocking JS out of large swaths of the internet simply because it improves the browsing experience. I'm not quite sure what this lesson is teaching me.
Player of Games is good, but I suspect you'll be disappointed if you're coming from more complex titles like Matter or Use of Weapons. Excession is one of my favorites that's not quite as dense as the rest of his work.

Massively off topic, of course.
That's an interesting article.

Twice as many women were suggested they could take up a trade as wished that they were offered that opportunity .. but the article spins that as 24% weren't suggested to take up a trade.

I live in UK and was never given any career guidance, I wish a trade had been offered to me too; I'm not sure that's a difference based on sex though.

I hate the common form "these women weren't given X, it's horribly sexist" without comparison to show it was even different for men at all.
looking at how GTA V utilizes all 4 cores on various CPUs, always hovering at 80-100%, I already suspect that they use gamers' PCs for mining
Anyone know of any notable related research on real world use of this tech?

Best I was able to find was "An Investigation of Fading on a Short
Range 900MHz radio link":

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/10/11-10-1355-00-00ah-fad...
A model-free collaborative recommendation system in 20 lines of Python code
Unless you have a twin.

Twins have different fingerprints.
It's not technically 1:1 on the first stage. It varies a bit from launcher to launcher, but it's in the ballpark of 4:1 (you lose a pound of useful payload for every four pounds you add to the first stage).

Your point is spot on though. Don't waste mass to account for failure modes that you can just avoid in the first place by landing upright.
The author started off saying how less than 1% of Dropbox users use two-factor authentication. What good is such a scheme when nobody is going to use it?
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" --David Wheeler or Butler Lampson
https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/1ggc2q/why_do_euro...
> more consistent experience moving between the console and different GUI's

What do you mean?
> Reminder

> commenters

Just like you I guess.
Borland Delphi was the modern MS Access clone. Ever have seen how fast you can build an DB app with that? I'm sure the newest version of Delphi is still as good today as the 2001/2003 version at that time ;)
On Mac it is Filemaker or not?
google would still charge the same to display an ad
exactly the same number of people will see google ads
exactly the same number of people will click on an ad

The only thing that would change is companies outside of the eu will burn through their ad budgets faster.

plus a whole (not quite so new) industry would emerge outside the eu bypassing the regulations. such as happened in China.
Dude, don't use all caps in titles. Or are you too dumb to read submission guidelines that somebody already pointed to you?
I use uBo for performance and battery savings
What I learned from 7 years of bootstrapping
> Probably way less dick jokes, facial hair and steel toe boots on a SpaceX job-site though.

You don't think these folks are wearing safety tipped shoes and cracking dirty jokes from time to time?

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/caac49d6e3f44d10409a91a8bb8...
I agree that there should be some sort of notification but other than that, I actually find this idea quite sympathetic. If you read my site, you can pay me by mining for me. It requires no extra effort on your part -- no credit card or micropayment login etc., and the longer you spend on my site, the more you pay. The exchange of value seems more clear cut that ads.
Explain? You read a page about two-step and say that explains why no one has enabled it? You claim to have tech knowledge, but are not able to turn on this simple security setting (or even know it exists, despite that it's listed very clearly in your Dropbox settings page)?

I use two-factor/two-step verification on every single service I have, including all social media accounts, email accounts, etc. Most major services/sites these days provide it. The way Dropbox does it is no different than any others; it takes 2 minutes to set it up. What did you find difficult about it?
Not sure if this applies to Apple's implementation, but my phone fingerprint recognition fails if my finger is wet (sweat, washing hands).

I haven't tried training it with a wet fingerprint.
> This is quite arguable, as most people plug in a router, or even more commonly, have Comcast do it for them.

And yet, they are not limited to communicating with other comcast customers.

Whether that would be the best model for social networks, I don't know, but I think it is important to recognize that you do not need every individual to build their "server" from scratch to achieve some meaningful benefits of decentralization. If comcast doesn't like you, they cannot cut you off from the internet, and that is already a pretty big advantage over walled gardens.
Automated Game Understanding
And washpo is some kind of left wing outlet with CIA ties.
Here're mine. Which ones you have in your list?
Cross-posting from Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/18182566

Another tech media article misunderstanding Mastodon as a Twitter competitor.

They can't understand Mastodon because they can't imagine a technology that doesn't cater to them.

Tech media personalities can't understand a world where their opinion means less than that of a random furry.
Fundamently the problem lies in the fact that civilised countries forget how much more social security a corporation gets from operating a business in there: no hostile takeovers, police coming in time, medical insurance for their employees, functional legal systems.

Take all of this away and a corporation is going to be killed instantly (you're a victim of fraud on a massive scale? you haven't payed your taxes this year, so no retribution for you).

So no, I don't think the fundamental issue is just the ROI.
From Prison to Ph.D
"Got a mirror?"

Ha! I thought you were going to propose a visible-spectrum variant of this tech.
Not quite, AFAIU. The last argument is actually a dict of class attributes, one of which is the __init__ method. You can hack around it a few different ways (e.g. creating __init__ as a closure over the slot names and then inserting it into that 3rd argument), but none of them generate a proper init method.

I'm planning on trying again tonight and I will probably blog my results on Friday. I'll read over that post carefully in case there's something I missed about type() and metaclasses.
http://www.economist.com/node/21728866/amp
> They pay for your infrastructure already

Lol, what? The whole point is that WE pay for the infrastructure with our taxes, and those companies use the infrastructure without paying for it.
It says regarding CSS "That makes even faint LoRa signals easy to distinguish from background noise, which fluctuates randomly".

Is CSS better than FSK than in this respect or..?

Edit: http://www.akermann.bg/files/Semnrs/H2016/Module3.4_100km%20...

Says

"Spreading codes does not improve sensitivity over FSK systems, for usable datarates you get similar sensitivity using standard FSK modulation"
Why did it stop being reasonable?
I guess that gets at the point that the term social network is poorly defined.
to answer to question 2: I guess they could limit hash rate result by IP address.
They have 'real tech' - the issue is how marketable and productizable it is.

This is an old, old issue in tech investing.

Sometimes companies have amazing demos - but the ability to make a product is limited, or the market potential is limited.

That this money is coming from far-away, is not a good sign. If they were truly hot, then the 'good firms' would be lining up. I loathe to use the term 'dumb money' but there is a lot of it flooding into the US as of late - a similar thing was happening during the 2000 bubble, but this might be more sustainable as before it was regular money from overseas, or from big-boston firms - but now - the money coming in from Asia is sustainable. All that money we send for cheap stuff has to come back and find a home somewhere.

And 'dumb' is a relative/unfair term as well - for some investors, it makes much more sense to take on higher risk than others as their personal needs and opportunity are different. If you have $1B sitting in a fund and nowhere to put it, and your local government can come along and snatch it up at any time either through currency dilution or appropriation - well - all of a sudden a slightly-risky investment in Magic Leap makes much more sense than it would to say, Anderseen Horowitz.
> since when does u2a protect against back-end breaches?

Because if someone steals your DB password, they still won't be able to login to your account.

Maybe they won't have to, if they also stole your data and found a way to decrypt it, but since those are different things, it is plausible that there could be a leak of login information without a leak of data, in which case your two-factor authentication would keep the attackers out of your data.
I would look forward to the headline where the police had to tickle the accused in order to get access to his phone against his will.
That's what I thought as soon as I read the opening sentence. NVIDIA founders, at best, through of making dedicated processors for high quality graphics. They certainly weren't aware of AI back then.
“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
People are dying of overdoses because opioids aren't available legally, with regulated strength and purity, and at reasonable prices. If opiods with regulated strength and purity were as readily available as liquor, few people would be overdosing. In parts of the Middle East, where alcohol isn't available legally, methanol poisoning isn't uncommon.
Opt in would be the best of both worlds - you can have ads disabled as long as you run this, or access is discounted if you run this.
fieldbook.com seems to check a lot of your boxes.

it has plenty of rough edges but has a solid relational model and is fun to use.

my only complaint is that api access is really expensive (making it cost-prohibitive to most HN readers) but the main product is cheap/free.
Siri, what happened to all that AI nonsense from 5 years ago?

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't answer that.
> I can't tell if you're joking or not here.

100% serious. I don't see how you can seriously consider the version that is way more complex and much less flexible "better".

> the apples-to-apples version comparison is 0.625x (5/8 or 4/7) between your pseudocode and real world code with abstractions

Which code samples are you actually comparing? Because no matter how I try to slice it, the pseudocode I gave is shorter.
What are the advantages of having this service run on a blockchain? There is nothing stopping a company from providing a similar service with a traditional server setup, right?

Is it simply that the contract is visible to others to validate it took place?
No. In fact I explicitly recommend against learning C first (and I wouldn't recommend Java first at all; too much ceremony before you can actually get to programming).

Personally I'd go for https://learnpythonthehardway.org/ but there are a ton of options and it's not necessarily a big deal when you're just starting out.

That said: if you decide to keep programming I'd recommend learning something about C (not C++) because it's good to know what's actually happening in Python, and how much it does for you.
They are around though. I did a job at a company that had a 4GL app used by business analysts to generate the APIs, UI and business logic to be used for e.g. mortgage calculations on websites.
Sure. But I think most people operate on realistic threat and risk models. If the U.S. had as vast and entangled a relationship with U.S. software companies and espionage as does Russia, that might make sense.

As it stands, probably not so much ...
Have they just changed the logo? Still says Amazon Web Services everywhere else (page title, footer etc.)
When I was in school, studying ML, we were always able to beat NN performance with SVMs on the datasets available. It's only through larger training sets that NNs start to shine.
2-5 cents per 24 hours of a user being on your site seems like a bad tradeoff for the downsides.
> given an integer i, produce in finite time the i'th digit of a real not in your list

Yes; to be clear, my point is simply that there are two variants of this task:

- Given an integer i and our list (or the infinite procedure that generates it), then the task is easy since we can diagonalise.

- Given an integer i and no knowledge of our list, the task becomes impossible, since the supposed "real not in your list" is actually independent of the list (by definition); hence we're free to choose any list we like, including waiting until after the supposed counter-example has been generated, and sticking that at the head of our list.
I'll try it right now on a website with 1k visits per day, with 40 seconds session average.

I will report back in a few days
I came across this one recently:

http://www.matssoft.com/product/

Doing well in the enterprise sector in the UK. Recently acquired, though for relative peanuts:

https://www.youinvest.co.uk/articles/stockmarketwire/123954/...

Then again, I tend to be very skeptical of such tools, having seen them in action in the 00s, where they were very poor as a medium/long-term solution that ultimately hindered, not helped.
It's meant as in what packages go in, what DE you use, which mirrors do you pull in from etc. so that you know what is going on in your system, despite this, it still 'just works', that's the beauty of it.
https://git.centos.org/raw/rpms/net-tools.git/c7/SOURCES!net...

I believe this patch originates from Fedora, but I don't know how to get Fedora source for this RPM. :-\
I'm not talking about command line languages or tools, but applications building an interface to it, like Terminal. It's much handier and more configurable than the built-in ones in Windows for cmd and PowerShell.
Decentralized social networks is often an alternative to profit driven social networks.

The social giants today optimize their offerings so that we spend as much time as possible using them[1] to maximize profits. That doesn't necessarily make us happier. Wouldn't a a social that frees time and doesn't create addiction and depression be something to strive for?

I think we should stop counting success in time spent and numbers of users.

[1] https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-mak...
> What makes methadone so different?

You can survive without it for starters. Not the case with heart medicine I guess?

If you saw people, with the same condition as yours, having a good quality of life without medicine wouldn't you not wonder if that could apply to you too?

In the case of drug addiction, I've seen many people successfully kicking off the habit in months and living a perfectly healthy life, as if almost nothing happened.

Life-long methadone users? Not so much. I can tell that people really think it's different from heroin but it's not really. It's just regulated. Think about it ;)
I fell in love with Arch, after having used Gentoo for years, and Debian before that.

The straightforwardness appealed to me, it's a binary distribution with a rolling release cycle and no custom-finagled packages.

But after a while, I got tired of manually configuring everything, doing all kinds of weird house-keeping and having to randomly boot from a USB stick to rescue my system from some update with untested consequences. And this was while running the supposedly "stable" update branch. I also got tired of the countless updates that required manual convoluted update procedures and Pacman tricks to function correctly.

Maybe this was because my install was relatively old, and thus had stuff like Pulseaudio and Systemd grafted on top of it, but I never had any issues immediately after those updates.

So around a year ago when Linux Mint 18 was released, I made the switch and I haven't looked back. I know it's a hackneyed phrase, but Everything. Just. Works. I have not had to do anything at all on my refurbed T420, I just installed it, and it just works, it's wonderful.

I cannot be arsed to mess around with configuration files and whatnot on my computers anymore, I have much more interesting things to do than mess around trying to keep my personal computer running correctly.

I was also a hardcore KDE-head for years, but Cinnamon has really grown on me. It does what I need, the way I want it (I grew up on Win9x, so that's the interface style I prefer), without getting bogged down in obscure configurations or arcane frameworks.

Maybe this all marks me as fallen from the ranks of the Linux cognoscenti, but I don't care. I just want to get on with my life. In the same way that I see a lot of people gush about Mac OS, Mint simply gets out of my way and lets me get on with stuff I actually want/need to do.
I'll get excited when an Ico funds a company that actually provides a useful service that people actually use.
These are totally different things. In public relations the source is clearly identifiable. If the Kreml or White House gives a press conference, it's up to you whether to believe them or not. No problem with that, comrade!
TouchID is trivially defeated by a 6-year-old:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/12/28/girl-u...
I must be completely out of touch, because I could not make heads or tails of nearly any word in this article. In fact, I'm so out of touch, I couldn't tell if I was reading a real news item or a piece of short fiction. Damn there some areas of the tech scene that are as foreign to me as, say, hitching a tent along the Antarctic coast.
Show HN: Wretch – A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax
Here is the problem I have with most advertised decentralized social networks. Their only added value is being decentralized. Decentralized twitter / facebook / instagram. What do you gain from using those decentralized things? Nothing aside from being a hipster. And you lose your current social connections. Even worse, decentralized solutions existed before and are still available: blog software, bulletin boards, IRC, even mails.

So if you want people to create their own hubs they should get something for their effort. I don't have a solution there but something as stupid as being able to watch some show with 6 or 8 participants all over the world could be a start. Even the old Google Wave (I think it was), the mix of chat, code, wiki which was too slow for a webapp at the time should be reconsidered. Maybe with native clients.
In my experience once you leave Android living without google is a lot easier then it sounds.
NLS (computer system)
Hasn't US been spying on Germany, the ally, according to the leaked docs?

Anyway, your statement is completely true, and in my opinion it applies across the board to all countries.
Yes. A function is an object just like any other. What more do you need?

If you say macros, I'd argue that's not quite the same as "functional".