skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still missing something here. A stock is an instrument of potential income and control, but I've never seen a price that was anywhere close to correlated with that. In fact, if anything there seems to be a discount given to high-dividend stocks (for which I, as an income investor, am grateful to all you baseball card traders that I don't understand).

To put it another way: the actual value of a no-dividend no-vote stock is precisely zero. The price is whatever the buyer and seller agree on, right? So how can one price be more "accurate" than another?
Please people, try to avoid facebook and they agenda much as possible.
Hi,

I'm suffering from the AWS billing madness too, and trying to understand if others share some of the same issues I've seen. Could I contact you to hear more about your billing frustrations?
I didn't want to start a preferred editor flamewar.
Has the author ever visited LA? I'm surrounded by rich idiots here.
I'm sorry, but YOUR criticism is unsubstantiated.

You sound like a self-righteous prick that probably had many of his own privileged perspectives 'ratified' by the disgraceful institution known as 'Harvard'.
I didn't mean to imply that I knew the answer to your question. I meant that the IQ disparity is a statistical fact, but the cause is a hotly debated area of research without clear answers, and the Wikipedia page is a good primer on the various sides of the debate. The point is that in a study like this you may have to adjust for oversampling by race.
God knows, but shops that advertise different capital exfiltration services do advertise their services rather openly in China.
This is a clever way to simulate the grid layout of Spaces that used to be the default in OS X through Snow Leopard.
>I find it very dubious that the "Income Inequality" sits at the very first section, and "Supply-and-demand" at the eighth. I'm no established economist, but my understanding is you start at the foundational idea then move on to the its ramifications and symptoms.

They literally answer this in the preface, its worth giving that a read first before moving on through the book.

"We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing problem that economists should address?’ The word cloud below shows the response that students at Hum­boldt University gave to us on the first day of their first class in economics."

They want to change the way economics is taught, and the students they surveyed felt inequality was a more pressing problem than anything else.
For styling, I'd look into CSS in JS, specifically JSS. Not only are all selectors scoped, you can create functions that return the proper styling. Frankly I think web developers as a whole need to rethink CSS and/or any paradigm based on traditional CSS like SASS/SCSS. We shouldn't need messy global variables like classes and ids to change styling.

Not to mention the usual arguments for CSS just don't make sense. CSS isn't decoupled, in fact the reliance on HTML classes and ids is extremely coupled. JSS can just be left in a separate file and imported wherever it needs to be used.
Any chance of an official unikernel distribution, or single entry-point mechanism for container images.

This along with AOT cached classes being baked into a vm/container image would be interesting.
the OS break down was interesting as I would bet that most of the jobs are using Linux's to run the code on the massive over representation of OSX is odd.

Buying a more expensive Mac to use just as a terminal just seams an odd choice.
That's a very interesting question that presumes that any policy problems at all are among problems that computer scientists should be addressing. IMHO pretty much any solution to a policy problem would by definition not be a computer science problem.

Developing a very specific technology might help solve a social problem if it's applied properly and if social scientists believe that this particular technology will actually have the intended social effect and not backfire.

Other than that, I'd argue that computer scientists can (and likely should) have an informed opinion on various policy problems and how technology could affect them (or be affected by them), but that it's not their role, skillset or responsibility to address any policy problems; if they're tackling policy problems, then they're doing it "wearing a hat" of a citizen-activist, but not really as a practitioner of computer science - if there's an argument that they should be tackling a particular policy problem, then that's only if everyone should be tackling that policy problem, not particularly for the field of computer science and the related technologies.
Uber Sues Mobile Agency Alleging Ad Fraud
German hackers step in to fix voting machines
I'm so sorry for making assumptions!
I'm going to be honest. The idea that users cannot request data be restricted in reaching them is not something I've heard associated with net neutrality before. Fuck, I'm in violation of it! I throttle video streaming services so they don't interfere with other applications on my home network.

You can have other browsers on iOS. They don't perform as well, and I do disagree with Apple over that decision. But they do exist.
That's what pdog was basically referring to. It would be like Newton getting the (modern) syntax correct in addition to the underlying theory.
Side loading is a thing. Not hard to do. Absolutely legitimate (if less easy than the App Store).
Good to know! I had just trusted them to redirect me to a non-gimped mobile site.
I'll be impolite and say you don't know what you are talking about. And I will not wiki 'theory' for you.
But the more stocks outperform bonds, the more things like the repeal of Glass-Steagell are encouraged.
murder is actually the perfect example.

it was legal in so many ways in the past (slavery) and a few today (death penalty, wars)

the thing with all laws, and the state, is that they exist not to make the world fair, but ti maintain status quo.

in the death example, if the law explicitly left baseball bats deaths out, that means that someone with influence over the state wanted it to be exempt.

this is the same on china now probably. china has tons of tech and hydropower. heck they may have invented satoshi! and maybe now too many small players are disrupting their game? or it maybe be that btc is but an annoyance to them and when their economy crumbles because of the upcomingreal state buble they dont want to also have to deal with people loosing money to bogus ICOs. who knows?
When I go to your link I get this:

Your connection is not secure

The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security.

hashnode.com uses security technology that is outdated
and vulnerable to attack. An attacker could easily reveal
information which you thought to be safe. The website
administrator will need to fix the server first before
you can visit the site.

Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY

And Firefox won't let me proceed.
"Emacs -> Cares, therefore Cares -> Emacs" is a form of abductive reasoning. It's only a logical fallacy if you treat it as though logic guaranteed the inference was true. If you treat it as, e.g., input helping to form priors in a Bayesian model, it can be useful information.

Let's say you have 100 programmers. 20 of them "care". Of the 100, 5 use emacs. P(emacs) = 0.05. If all emacs users care, then P(emacs|care) = 0.25. If I wanted to model this phenomenon, I shouldn't ignore the correlation just because it's not perfectly causal.
There is a chicken and egg problem. How does one make a secure password manager password...? There still is the need for users to learn how to generate secure but memorizable passwords.
It'd be fine. You would do that, I would do that and most people here would do that. The vast majority of users would not, it's just like adblockers: only a minority uses them.
I understand you're referring to a criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecutors are, from my limited observations as a layperson with a minor interest in law, more guilty of this than anyone. They go hyper-aggressive on charges, expecting them to be pared down. Some of it is a ploy to get a quick plea. There is an element of calling the bluff, and the defendant's attorney would have to evaluate the situation and advise whether or not that was smart in the given case.

This is not to say there aren't ridiculous prosecutions that run their course, especially in niche areas that aren't widely understood and thus hard to create public outcry over, like insider trading or computer crimes. It's just to indicate that using Lynx, by itself, is not considered criminal by any sane person. It's a nit the prosecutors pick when they're trying to nail you on something larger, a detail they exaggerate to attempt to create the impression of one's villainous ways.

Just don't want people to uninstall Lynx in fear that they'll be arrested for firing it up. :)

EDIT: From re-reading your comment, it seems you're suggesting that this wasn't part of a larger operation, but that actual charges were brought because of a single aberrant entry in the access logs? I find this hard to imagine, but if true, I would guess that this is more along the lines of "abuse of police power to harass an enemy" than "literally a random dude who just visited our site in a text-based browser". I've read access logs for many years now and even small sites get all kinds of weird things in there, it doesn't seem plausible that something like that would flag off any kind of detector. Do you have a link to more details about the case?
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Hi,

I'm thinking about working on a solution to better understand and limit costs in AWS. Could I contact you to understand a bit more about what would be an ideal setup for you?
> allowing apps instead of web apps

For what it's worth, people who worked on the original iPhone have said that internally Apple knew that 'web apps' were always a stopgap until they could get a native SDK out the door. Time constraints preventing them from shipping one in the first year.

I'm sure Don Melton and/or Nitin Ganatra discussed this on Debug podcast a few years back https://www.imore.com/60-melton-ganatra-episode-iii-shipping...
Offtopic, but maybe it's time people used Xcode instead of XCode, xCode etc. I didn't expect the repo's README to make this confusion.
Linux 4.14 'getting very core new functionality' says Linus Torvalds
“Ancient Aliens” Is Everything That's Wrong with America
So... Pandora without all the song meta?

People make playlists for a variety of reasons, according to their specific tastes. Songs that appear together on a functional playlist (workout jams, study music, etc) likely won't have appeared together for the same (or even similar reasons). Contrast that even further against playlists built for aesthetic reasons ('sad songs', 'psychedelic-sounding', 'minimal', etc) and it seems hard to imagine how mining just playlists can lead to good music selections.

Is this algorithm attempting to track context or merely playlist contents?

And for the record, if there is one area that I really want machine learning and "AI" to fall flat on its face with, it's music. It's a shame technophiles want to strip the people out of art and its consumption.
While I agree that the NYT is garbage by and large. WaPo ain't much better; if they have some of the best investigative journalism around, that's a very, very sad state of affairs. Not to mention their conspicuous lack of criticism when reporting on Amazon..
Wow, this reminds me of how Cisco routers automatically try to SSH to anything that isn't a recognized command. (I may be mis-remembering part of this)
Much of the code needs nothing more than a recompile. It’s just no one is doing that.

To run 32 bit stuff you need copies of all the system libraries. You lose a lot of RAM to that. You have to continue to ensure they don’t have bugs. All for apps that are abandoned.

I totally understand what apple is doing. I bet you a ton of those apps were never updated for iPhone 6 screen shizes either.
Facebook is most likely a net negative in this world. I don't know if it's always been true, but I think it is now. I personally didn't realize how strong my feelings were until one of their recruiters contacted me. I'm far from a 'values' driven employee, but this was by far the easiest refusal of my career.
Somewhat tangential - how exactly me buying, let's say, stock of AMZN, puts value where it is most effective way (in the pocket of another AMZN stock seller, and not AMZN itself)?
>Some other companies aren't so nice.

Just ask! And if it's not ok, do it anyway and then get another job. Maybe this is more common over here in europe but basically everybody who really wants to travel does it like this.

On my travels (mostly most of asia, south and middle america, some europe) I have met nurses, doctors, military doctors, journalists, devs (a lot), sound engineer, hair stylists, bankers (he was hilarious), DJs, salespeople, night watchman, ....

Travelling the world gives you more experience, more insights and more perspective than just being another desk jockey like everybody else in the company.

Also never let your actions be determined by fear ("will not be hired again, will not be as valuable in the workforce if I travel for a year, ..."). if you want to travel, just do it. (and read books about stuff that really interests you while you do it.)

And: companies are usually not nice, but the people within companies are most of the time pretty decent, and they usually like people which just do their thing.
Eh, investment banking is arduous cause of the hours, and does require you to be pretty smart, but its not as meritocratic as your claiming. It's stacked with Ivy League kids exactly because elitism at big banks works in their favor during the hiring process.
Chartmuseum – Helm Chart Repository on Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
GCP arrives in South America with launch of São Paulo region
Learn from your attackers – SSH HoneyPot
I wonder what could someone extract from coca-cola for their own self interest.
I think this is brilliant. I was talking about this very model the other day and I think it could really help/work!!
> buy 1,000+ Xbox controllers and keep them in a warehouse.

Yes, I was going to suggest this. It would solve the availability issue and reduce the malware issue. If it's replacing a $38,000 item, they could buy 1,265 extra per sub.
I wouldn't call these event networks "part of the federated phone system". They are clients of companies that are part of it. External numbers into these networks are extensions of a public number they get from the upstream - just like any company having a PBX, they do not participate in any of the inter-provider infrastructure, do not own the phone numbers, ...

The internet equivalent to what they are doing would be getting a business line with a fixed, provider-owned IP prefix. The equivalent to what the parent describes would be getting a prefix delegation from a registry and peering with other networks.

It's still really cool for island systems though, which is the more important thing for those events.
This is such an important notion.

Another I try to explain hardware design for people coming from a software background:

You get one choice to put down in hardware as many functions as you want. You cannot change any of them later. All you can do later is sequence them in whatever order you need to accomplish your goal.

If you think of it this way, you realize that the clock is critical (that's what makes sequencing possible), and re-use of fixed functions introduces you to hardware sharing, pipelining, etc.

But it's hard to grasp.
I've been using reciprocal pairs for mental division for as long as I can remember and now I have a name for the process. I especially find myself using them while calculating distances while running or driving with little interruptions and wanting to avoid the mental load of long division.
Harvard's graduation rate is 97.5%. Yale 97%. Princeton 96.9%. It's hard to flunk out of the Ivy League.

Non Ivy League highly selective schools: Caltech 92.3%. Stanford 93%. MIT 92.2%. UC Berkeley: 90.9%. Low 90% success rate is normal there.
From what I understand, it is more that by collecting events that occur in a frame and then applying them on the next. It is easier to debug since you can print out the events on every frame. Which if there is a bug, makes it easier since you'll be able to see the events and the order they came in on.
“Force HTTPS” plugin for chrome
Tesla Model 3 actually has 334 miles of range according to EPA data
I've kept a bookmark of all the Software Engineering Daily podcasts discussing ad fraud (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=ad+fraud) that someone linked to on HN. Uber has some pretty interesting claims in this article which, if true, is encouragement to learn more about the topic.

>One transparency issue Uber alleges to have found included seeing a Fetch transparency report that showed the number of weekly reported clicks on Uber ads on one website was nearly equal to the site’s monthly active users, according to the complaint.
If the server feels I'm not entitled to its resources, the server is welcome to respond with a 402 code.
I think the main reason someone chooses to invest money into index funds is either they just want stable returns without too much hassle, or they believe in efficient market theory that basically states that you can't beat the market, so no point in even trying(and that's true for most of the mutual funds). But looking at value investors, it seems you can consistently beat the market.

Also, what bothers me about indexing, is that a lot of money is going into same companies(S&P500). Look at any S&P500 companies Top Institutional Holders and without a doubt Vanguard is on top(wild guess). Not sure what happens with the price, when company is excluded from S&P500.

In conclusion, indexing is fun in the bull market, it's just you can't retire in the recession years.
Essential apps that the developer has decided not to update in two years. Not even a simple ‘recompile and submit’ that many apps would require.

The developers of the apps clearly don’t think of them as essential.
The preface to this article is annoying.

> And founder Julian Assange continues to face charges that his ‘radical transparency’ organization is a front for Kremlin agents...

The use of the word "charges" here indicates an unwarranted level of severity of these claims. He has not faced any legal charges and the only people making these accusations are those who suffered political fallout from their documents being revealed.

The fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever that wikileaks is associated with the Russian government at all and anyone claiming there is is speculating at best.
I am not getting any such issues. Can you try cleaning the cache and try again?
Yes, the topic at hand is the ramifications of Apple's feature. The topic is not net neutrality. You brought that into the discussion and basically accused anyone who is in favor of both net neutrality and Apple's feature of being ignorant. You said "nothing personal, but how else am I to take "If you are in favor off this update, but against for example net neutrality, then you might want to check up again on how well you understand these concepts"? That, to me, means that if I hold these two positions (and I do) then I am not only wrong in your view, but that I don't even understand the topic.
I get that, but the corrosion is internal. The unit could fail in the middle of a critical operation. How are they handling that?
Should platforms be managing themselves in that way, and is that better for everyone else?

With blanket immunity, law enforcement remains the responsibility of government agencies that (1) we pay to do those jobs, (2) have due process requirements, and (3) have broad immunity within the confines of their job. Without blanket immunity for platforms, we're requiring them to take on law enforcement responsibilities with none of the usual protections in place.

Banking secrecy and KYC laws are, I think, a great example of how consumer-hostile this can be.
Why are we still using magstripes? It's 2017! There's all this cool stuff happening! I have a laser-guided robotic vacuum cleaner. SpaceX is landing rockets on boats. The Navy has a real life railgun. We have self driving cars, which means it's only a matter of time before there's a country song about a guy who's truck leaves him. Yet... I can't pay for something securely.

Please, no more signatures. NFC or Chip/Pin please!
> I can't even put a copy online for people to download

Sure you can.

Put the source code up on Github and anyone can download and sideload it on their device. Don't even need a developer account to do that these days.
Losers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, study finds
Baffled how you get "willfully unaware" out of my comment, and how I earned "naive and stupid" epithets from you.

At least I know how to find an eigenvalue. Can't be all that stupid.
I think he probably chose his words fairly carefully: "feel so much faster".

I don't think anyone argues that they can ship a piece of software noticeably faster using Vim or Emacs. Like you said, we're never limited by editing speed. But it's also true that you're not figuring out what code to write one character at a time. You spend most of your time looking at the code, figuring out what to do next. But once you've decided that, there is a little burst of activity during which the limiting factor actually is the motor skill of executing that desired action. In theory, all the little savings might add up, but again, I don't think anyone seriously argues that. I think it's much more that that microburst of activity felt less frustrating while they were doing it.
Even if you are right, your comment is pointless.

Let's assume Buddism was the ultimate truth of how the Universe work. Would it be Ok for a Buddist to interrupt a debate about criminal law with the remark that, given reincarnation, all murders are an illusion???

People feel inside like they have free will, and they are not going to change that opinion because of your argument. If a men in a white labcoat tells them to disregard their own feelings and surrender to the BigBadCompany, they are not going to do so... they are going to label people in white coats as "manipulative enemy". Furthermore, they are going to label everyone that oppose people in white coats, - antivaxers, prolifers, climate change deniers, etc, - as "potential ally".

So, you want to stop Donald Trump from taking over the world??? Why don't you stop preaching to the choir while alienating everyone else?