skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Canada will surely be having it's own insurance program.

The main one is production insurance, protecting against disaster events like weather. It doesn't focus on price. Of course, it applies to all crops, not just corn, providing incentive to grow something – whatever is profitable due to market demands – but not corn specifically.

In the last few years there has been an addition of a program that sounds more like you describe the US system, but it seems ill-conceived and not clear how you would ever get your premiums back. I have not enrolled in it personally. It definitely is not impacting my decision to grow corn.

> if Canadian supply is cheaper people will buy cheap corn from there and import to US.

Naturally, but that only works if there is demand. The parent seemed to be suggesting that the US government subsidizes US farmers to grow corn due to the absence of market demand.

> Curious what price level you would say is unprofitable to grow corn?

I would say the breakeven point is somewhere around $4.50/bu. for my business. I have most of my corn crop sold at $5 this year, so I'm comfortable with those margins. Wheat is the crop that is going to be a money loser for the foreseeable future.
To me, the big deal is the extension of this profiling to naturalized citizens. The extension of the divide between the citizen classes based on an arbitrary factor, as a matter of national policy, is a negative development.
Horseshit. Don't blame your systemic incompetence on a state actor. A five year old could get in.
It still does not solve the base problem of sourcing liquidity. It is fine and dandy if I have a coin that the banks value, but when I go to turn that coin into fiat currency, I have got to source the fiat liquidity from somewhere. This is the fundamental problem with something like Ripple...
Very nice. Are there plans to expand on it? For example, some way to allow state to be kept at the edge as well.
QE3 inflated the things in question, not 'tax cuts to the wealthy'. in fact, taxes have gone up on the richest and that bubble continued to inflate. if you want to make it about politics, (and if this is a bubble of bubbles), it was done under the fed under a liberal president - who claimed credit for its 'success'.

when you put funny money in the market, tech booms, paper assets boom and investment in hard industry becomes less appealing. the investment in tech has failed to rise all boats. its only raising boats for some very select geographies, and perhaps that could have been changed if tech developed differently (less monopolies), but it didnt.
Data Science Is Hard: Dangerous Data
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu (disputed)
As of iOS 11 (or possibly earlier) the numeric digit code isn’t limited to 4/6 digits.
the scary part is not the collection. it's the intention or end outcome of having that information. i.e. How likely are they to try to find something against you if you're tweeting against current admin. god knows what lists are created as a result of this.

and this can also easily lead to uncovering less public information about you. More data you have about a person easier it is to triangulate anonymized data about them.
I haven't seen the feature where HN keeps a social graph of your HN 'friends' yet.
I disagree, I don't know may be it's a preference thing but I think the code with points is readable for me and doesn't require to write extra function, class etc.
Beautiful. A middle finger to the usual bland corporate pomposity!
I use LastPass for about 20 people. It's easy to administrate and totally eliminated our bad password habits. The biggest benefits for us were shared folders, groups, and how easy it is to install on any browser or mobile device.
I hate this grubby finger-pointing to a state actor. Sadly, the majority of non tech readers will take is as given.
My desktop is an old Optiplex 760, apparently made in 2008, and its my main "home office" computer. I bought it from a public auction web site from the local university for around $20-30. I wiped Windows XP and installed Ubuntu. I upgraded the RAM to 6 GB for next to nothing (the limit is 8, I think). I've used it for nearly 3 years for daily use, general computing, and sometimes computationally intensive, days-long numerical experiments for research. Is it a top-of-the-line machine? No, but for grad student with virtually no budget, it suffices quite nicely.
If true, then fine.

Otherwise this would be a recommendation to lie to customs/immigration officers... and I strongly recommend not doing that.
> When I visit Miami, for example, there are many small, interesting radio stations with no internet portal.

Isn't it a lot easier to start broadcasting over the internet than over the air ? Operating an FM station is a huge investment. First you have to take part in the FM spectrum auction, which only occurs every couple of years, and then you'd have to bid and win a piece of the spectrum. That alone will cost you millions (last auction in my tiny country an FM frequency set you back 20 million euro for 6 years). Then you need the broadcast equipment, etc. etc.

Broadcasting on the internet, you could do that on a €25 Raspberry Pi if you wanted.

> Discovery. If you don't know what stations are available in your area, there is no simpler way to find out than simply spinning a dial along one axis.

Sure, but you have a handful of stations and they are only available in a small area. With streaming radio you have a choice of thousands of channels available worldwide. It's much easier to discover a station you like and you are not limited to the few stations in range.

> Relevance of local culture. I like to hear banter, jokes, news, weather and concert listings from around my area.

That's personal. Most people I know can't stand the DJ's on the radio who only love to hear themselves talk. It's the #1 complaint you hear about radio. One of the most popular FM stations here is the one that just broadcasts music 24/7.

> In my car I can scan for local stations while the GPS is running on my phone.

In my car I can listen to streaming music on my phone while the GPS is running on my dedicated SatNav.

> Quality of experience. On FM, the transition between stations is nearly instantaneous. On digital wireless networks, there's always buffering, making it longer to find something good.

You don't need to 'tune in' to find something, with streaming you can easily browse through a huge list of different stations and click the one you like. My phone certainly switches streams faster than my car stereo changes stations. With 100+Mbit 4G networks being common, buffering a few kB is pretty much instantaneous.
The way you describe it, it's not tax on savings, it's investment income tax. Almost all countries have it.

As a general principle taxing personal investment income should be taxes at least the same amount as labor income. Taxing labor has more negative externalities than taxing investment income.
Are you running a X session or Wayland?
Laptop manufacturers don't typically include 'maximum operating G' information. Looks like there's a freefall phase during the flight, though, during which a laptop with a physical hard drive would likely enter freefall protection mode. So you'll at least want to use an SSD.
You can play this game all day.

Nazi Germany asked its own citizens for papers in-country (e.g. train trips).

And you are right, context matters. Perhaps the existence of "sanctuary cities" in current day America is more relevant to yet-another-Nazi-Germany-comparison (TM).

> It's not much a leap to imagine..

But what are the facts? For example, is Snap-chat one such social media platform that will be check based on unverified accounts?
Yes. We plan to. We are releasing this to find out precisely what people need.
I think people initially didn't like it because it was canonical's attempt at "convergence" so that ubuntu could be used on PC/phone/tablet back when their plan was to run on those things. A lot of people hate the idea of a desktop OS that looks like a tablet OS. Anyway, I agree, over time I got used to it and don't really mind it now, certainly better than the old gnome 2 menu based desktop.
Point of curiosity: why did you go with C++ instead of Rust?
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Fresh Look at Older Mars Data Yields Equatorial Surprise [Ice]
You then pay yourself salary for the next three years, as well as a generous contract to your uncle Bob's consulting firm, which is supposed to build the product.

Sometime in 2020, you post about your incredible journey on your blog, say that all the money has been spent, and the project failed. Whoops, sorry guys.

At least, that's a legal way to take ICO money and run. It's not even fraud if you put some effort into delivering on what you promise.
Episode 9: Sex and furniture.
Let me take a guess.
Comparatively low immigration rate. Hardly accept any refugees (28 individuals accepted by Japan in 2016). Be able to support yourself or be (quite literally) kicked out. High barriers to citizenship.
A slippery slope, you say?
I'm always amazed that in this day and age, it takes three business days for my paycheck to direct deposit into my checking account...
Read the terms of some of these ICOs. There are soooo many weasel clauses that they essentially say you're buying tulip bulbs that'll probably have no use and no value.
I think it must be some crisis management / PR department that says to say "done by state actor".
It covers everyone on US soil, including unauthorized immigrants.
Yes. Just not wanting to give Equifax a pass. I could imagine this kind of attitude: "Well, we were super secure, it's just that we were up against the whole of China...nobody could have headed this off..."
I am wondering too. There is even no Ubuntu GNOME on the update list. Is it going to be discontinued?
When the company had financial trouble though, they fired all the middle managers and kept the engineers

The truth is that most layoffs don't work like that, unfortunately. Members of the management class will generally try to protect their own, and they see engineers as mere blue-collar workers, no matter how skilled or qualified those engineers are. Yes, even software engineers.
I see your point. I think at market rate a couple years ago, my studio would be around $1500/mo, 1 bd at $1750, and 2 bd at ~2100. So yes, there could be several hundred saved.

The "best" deal I've found in LA is when you have a partner and can split the one-bedroom with them.
No more deep vein thrombosis. Or screaming kids kicking the back of your chair cause they've got nothing to do for 10 hours. London to Sydney would be a massive improvement because often you have to stop halfway.

Plus you get all the benefits of paying for a Virgin Galactic trip
Well muh chinese hackers in this case. But same idea.

And yes, "it's the russians" is now a joke where I work when servers are down, or someone makes stupid mistake and breaks the build.
Glad to see 32bit intel being dropped.
> Such a contract would attract charlatains

No it wouldn't. The current contracts do that. The CEO can basically take huge risks with the company at zero personal risk. If it pans out, he gets a huge bonus, if it fails he bails out with a huge severance package and no personal consequences.

It's the same mechanism that got us into the financial crisis. Executives have every reason to take huge risks and none to play it safe.
Treating trust as binary is folly. DANE means the provider could send the correct certificate to most people, but a fake one (along with a fake IP) to specific victims.

Convergence distributes this verification, so the provider would have to give the same false result to everyone, otherwise a notary will catch the discrepancy.
The expansion of the divide between citizen classes. Welcome to the brave new world.
Commandoes to carry out raids. Dirty bombs with big drills to pollute water supply to a region. So much fun it's sad.
Why don't you post links to every single social media account you own here? And then we can go through them all and see what we find, and then we'll store it for use later. Make sure you don't leave any out.
I bet you that someone could write a program to deanonymize most people posting on the internet, and then cross correlate with claims about high roller stuff.
This is surely the funniest thing I'm going to see today. I'm going back to bed.
How long until we have transcontinental commuting?!
How is this going to fly with the various European data privacy laws? The European Union has previously objected strongly, and even hinted at punitive counter actions, to similar data gathering initiatives by the US Government.
Funny how 'reciprocity' doesn't seem to apply to taxes or extradition..

edit:

Taxes; Even in the EU, forms will ask about American tax status, because an American citizen living abroad must still file taxes. I must provide this information, despite never having been an American Citizen.

Extradition; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...
We haven't nailed down pricing yet

One of the things I like about AWS is the price doesn't jump from $0/year directly to $240/year the way cloudflare does.
embedded boxes run something like busybox to get just the coreutils rather than including all the packages that ship with, e.g., debian.

https://busybox.net/about.html
"The Stock Index bubble"

Okay, does that actually mean anything unless the companies maintaining the index portfolios are at risk of going under?

Is Vanguard about to go bankrupt? (lololol)
Actually the right gets upset rather about censorship and death threats currently, but you might not have seen it in the newspapers (that's what censorship means). I discovered it when James Damore was accused of hate speech and explicitly menaced, and the same happened last week when UC Berkeley launched police investigations for "hate speech" into every student who helped the Free Speech Week on the campus. So, no, people who are supposed to defend your freedom aren't even in a position of weighing for basic rights currently, especially if it's related to Twitter.
Honest answer? It's very far for pretty much everybody not in AUS/NZ

12h if you're in the West Coast, a shorter trip if you're in Japan and that's "the closest" most people will be
It's not a new term, is the partial answer.

The rest is that "point free" describes a programming paradigm, while terms you listed describe the mechanisms you can use to apply it.
Point free notation often depends on currying, but it is not the same.
Instead, point free notation is about only using composition and currying to define your functions.
Tourists are already treated like they're trying to be immigrants. Ask your Mexican friends that got denied entry trying to visit Disneyland because the border agent was in a bad mood.

Reading your other comments in this submission, it doesn't sound like you know many non-Americans who have experience with the US border.
For reference, Kubernetes uses a `pause`[0] for a similar reason.

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/build/p...
> And Equifax linking to a fake phishing site by mistake, was that also "state sponsored"? Give me a break...

They did say "...sophisticated team of hackers..." so who knows, right.
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Maybe the Austrian economists warning about easy credit were onto something... or maybe it's just crypto currencies?
We're certainly aware of them, but haven't spent a lot of time focused on this issue yet. Of course, the issue exists on all forms of shared compute. So if you're going to do crypto, you'd better make it constant-time. Which is... not easy in Javascript. (But we will provide the WebCrypto API, which might help.)

There is a theoretical solution that we might be able to explore at some point: If compute is deterministic -- that is, always guaranteed to produce the same result given the same input -- then it can't possibly pick up side channels. It's possible to imagine a Javascript engine that is deterministic. The fact that Javascript is single-threaded helps here. In concrete terms, this would mean hooking Date.now() so that it stays constant during continuous execution, only progressing between events.

That said, this is just a theory and there would be lots of details to work out.
Very sane reply. It is greed which is the source. To keep it simple.
"Intuitive" is too subject.

What we're interested in is simplicity. And this is an objective measure.

This (A):

partial(Math.max, 2)

is objectively simpler than this (B):

function atLeastTwo(someNumber) {
return Math.max(2, someNumber);
}

Why is it objective? Because it expresses the same exact value (i.e., function) with an objectively fewer number of concepts.

When (A) is unfamiliar it feels less intuitive, but with practice/experience that sense of unintuitive goes away, and then you are left with (B) a simpler expression -- and therefore less cognitive load on the developer trying to make progress.
If someone is communicating with known terrorist organizations or plotting a crime on social media, how is that not the governments business?

I'm not saying they should have unfettered access to everything (far from it!), but gathering and analyzing this type of information is the very definition of their business.

The real question is what levels of information gathering are going to allow without a warrant, and who do those laws apply to?
Absolutely, they IQ test and the relative results are constantly changing according to the population's performance, but if you take a snapshot of the test by using the original test and scoring rubric, you can determine if your IQ changed from your 30's to your 60's in relation to the original distribution.
This is scary and keeps getting worse. As a citizen, I'm even worried about traveling and coming back. Do I want my phone confiscated because a friend from high school tagged me in a political post a random border patrol agent disagrees with? or worse?

Remember, they have not stopped any terrorist attacks in the US with all the new surveillance since 9/11 (to my knowledge).

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin
A toxic culture starts from the top. DJT's seeming enjoyment of the driving of division between parties (and even within his own) is part of the problem. He is not the only problem and removing him isn't a cure but a hopeful/forward looking leader (from either party) doing everything he/she can to positive push the people together would be better for the country.
US to pull staff from Cuba over 'attacks'
Well, if your country don't have any sea or mountains or any other remote area I guess that is "nice"...

Also, big difference between emergency service and 3/4G suitable for audio streaming.
>“social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information and search results,”

_How_ are they going to collect that, particularly search results?
> If you take money from individual A

Like I take money from the company I work for, in payment for my services...

> put it into a common pot

I put it in my bank account...

> and then give it to individual B

I buy something from Amazon, say...

> then individual B is effectively getting individual A's money.

Then Amazon is getting my companies money? Erm, no. Once it's been paid to me, it's my money. That's how payment works. When you pay for a society's services, that money is no longer yours. If you're a member of that society you still get a say in how it's spent (not always the case: you might be from another society and just paying for market access) but it's not your money any more.
It's a functional programming thing.
I disagree.
Theano is in widespread use and released under a permissive license.
The software will stay around. The contributions from LISA/MILA have clearly been crucial historically, but we don't know at this point what will happen to Theano when they direct their attentions elsewhere.
Personally I am inclined to think people and development will move to the other libraries Bengio alludes to, but even so, spreading a public declaration of the "death" of a pioneering decade-long project is not to be done lightly. Spreading that kind of rumors is a contribution towards making sure Theano doesn't have a future after MILA.
By far the most fun to be had in the intelligence world is Foreign Materiel Acquisition.

Acquire, disassemble, document, re-assemble (+1 part), return unnoticed.

NASIC wrote up a fun article last year about their FMA program [1].

[1]http://www.nasic.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1010245...
Aren't supersonic jets more affordable?
- NO, end of story.
I think that definition of Bubble status is only useful when looking at things in retrospect. Money is only drawn to an asset because at present it's valuation looks sustainable.
"if we ever create AI we'll (hopefully) do it in the context of a robust ethical framework"

There are no grounds (rational or otherwise) for objective morality outside of God.

See Hume's "is-ought" dilemma.

And if you're into Atheism see also Sam Harris' debate with William Lane Craig.
I took time off for interviews; typically a full day for onsites and half a day for phone tech screens. If they're open to early morning or evening phone screens, you could suggest that too.

I would typically take the initial HR call in my car at lunch (drive to a nearby parking lot if you're worried about your current company seeing you). You could try to do this with tech screens as well, but I would make sure you have a rock solid internet connection and a good laptop. I never felt comfortable with that, so I just booked the morning off and did it at home.
Clickbaity titles always get more upvotes :(
The Martian girl was / is my biggest complaint with the series. I almost gave up watching even though I love show because of that one character.
if i understand correctly, your solution is to erase your public social media footprint

wouldn't that be a form of free speech suppression?
Not for me. I think The Fall of Hyperion is my favourite in the series, although it's hard to split it with Hyperion.

The pacing is very different between each book, almost to the point it can feel like each book has been written by a different author. Don't read each book with the expectation that it is a straight continuation of the last as Simmons experiments with different styles and perspectives in the same universe.
The most amazing thing to me is how much money he made without actually ever delivering a finished product.

Very similar to the careers of a number hi paid bankers and traders I know.
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We are all experienced Java programmers who don't know web programming. (we are an HFT shop finally getting around to expanding the primitive GUI that controls the trading machines; we have been using Excel for 10 years).

All the clients are running in our Colorado office and we can upgrade them at will.

I think JMS or similar would probably work very well but we don't know messaging so we are having trouble knowing how best to use it.
I attribute it to the incredible stupidity of our mass media. And 'TV' of what sort ever. It has been a good thing to be forced to watch dull content. At least it was informative at times.
Posting to Facebook isn’t completely unlike writing to a newspaper. You send something to Facebook and it is syndicated to whomever. How and when it gets syndicated is down to Facebook, not you, and even if you delete it then you have no guarantee that it was actually deleted. You don’t really own that information anymore.

Same goes for Twitter and Instagram etc.

It’s a mistake to believe that the information you post won’t be made public in some way, whether to a government or another private company or individual. How can we declare that a social media capture, in that case, is a “search”? It isn’t really a “search” - it’s practically there for the taking.