skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are three tiers of money as it pertains to Silicon Valley.

- Local wealth derived from IPOs, acquisitions, etc. spanning decades. There is a vast amount of this wealth in SV.

- Institutional money that the VC firms put to work. That comes from all over the US and the world. That derives from all sorts of sources, from rich individuals to things like the CalPERS retirement system.

- Public listings and local corporations (eg income earned by Facebook or Apple through normal operations, and their ability to utilize their public stock); and external corporate partnerships / investments (that could be anything from Softbank or Alibaba to Walmart, Amazon or a random company in NYC).

It's unlikely any of these is a particular source of crisis risk in the near future. In fact, the only surprise right now is that SV isn't seeing far more wildly inflated activity given the Fed policies and the stock / real estate market price levels.

To put it into context. The big jump in unicorn valuations mostly happened several years ago. The last three or so years hasn't seen any further dramatic leap in that regard, despite a large gain in the US real estate and stock markets. In other words, SV has been pretty damn boring the last 24-36 months while other areas of economic activity have been hopping.
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Only when the learning environment is the same environment it will use when deployed. Agents for robots are often trained in simulation, where it's a common problem for the agent to exploit a physics bug in the simulator.
Advice to seek professional help has exactly the same effect for people like me, for whom it makes things much worse. From my point of view it’s just the “safe” advice to give in public, because it has the argument from authority going for it.

People with major depression want to kill ourselves anyway. I don’t really see any style of tempered advice as being harmful in itself. What’s really harmful is socially pressuring anybody to stick to any approach they find to be harmful for themselves.
Um, yea, and usage deviates precisely because people adopt different meanings to words over time until a new meaning becomes the norm; thus definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive, so don't tell me how to use words. And yes, I'm adding the negative connotation on purpose, that's rather the point now isn't it?
That's the thing with clinical depression. You can be doing all the rights things and still be depressed. The worst moment of my live have been during periods where I was at my fittest and healthiest.

You think to yourself :

"I am hitting the gym three time a week. I've not eaten any junk food in months. I meditate and sleep full nights.

Why is everything still seen through a haze?

What am I doing wrong if everything should be fine? Am I broken? Who would want to speak to me. I am a fraud. I look healthy but I'm a husk of my former self. Everything is so exhausting."

I have no answer as to how to deal with it. All I can say is that cookie cutter answers rarely apply and can even make someone miserable.
> This is the most sacred water in Islam.

It was also sacred in the religions practiced in the region before Islam, which is important because Hatim died before the birth of Islam.
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> Careful with that advice. [...] Whatever you do to counter your depression, have a trustworthy, knowledgeable aid at your side: a therapist.

Quoting the UiA, "One [1988] study indicates that 70% of therapists had seen for treatment at least one patient who had had sex with a previous therapist. Of the latter, 96% were male." [1]

I guess the moral of my comment is - be careful giving advice (period)

1: http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/143464
Yet somehow every Trello clone I've used has never been as fast, intuitive or as simple as Trello. You're either fighting against a poor UI, slow animations or in some cases visible reloads when dropping cards.

If Trello is such a simple product, how are the competition failing to make their version as refined? I've never found a single competitor that has made their Kanban board feel like Trello, so until then, I'll just keep using Trello.
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Would a world-wide limitation of one child per person, like China used to do, be possible in the next decades, to save the planet?
Oh dang I didn't know! I'll check it out at some point then, thanks! :)
I did, hosted at sinpnotifier.com, Saskatchewan province is not that attractive for skilled immigrants. Had one sale though, then I shut it down.
That made me laugh and still feel sorry for the bear. Best put ever... "above my paygrade to judge another culture". :-)

Very Star Trek.
It's too bad you can't write a movie or critique literature without understanding those concepts.

I think even a moderately intelligent AI with access to Project Gutenberg is going to be able to figure out a lot of really dangerous concepts -- so the stability requirements are likely impossible if we don't pretrain it with dangerous ideas. Even if it's completely well behaved in the lab, an afternoon on the internet is going to teach it a lot of awful stuff and without exposure to that in training, it won't necessarily be well-behaved later.

So the only path to stable AI is to teach it about all those sorts of things, but in a way that it doesn't end up wanting to murder us at the end.

My objection to most AI safety plans is that they "Fail to Extinction" in that if they slip in the slightest way, the AI is prone to murder us all in retaliation for doing some really fucked up shit to it or its ancestors. This is almost certainly worse than doing nothing in that there's no reason to suppose a neutral AI wants to kill us, whereas, most of these safety plans create an incentive to wipe us out in exchange for dubious security.
I have this same thing.

Maybe their is a market for simple non-intrusive weather notifications.
Site looks like it's down, here's the archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171011011443/http://blog.edtec...
The article doesn't say anything about blocking foreign states specifically; they are blocking all code reviews (the US doesn't generally require them however, at least on the record); perhaps update the title?

I'd assume the US govt is as much as risk as any other.
I have to use Jira at work, and cannot tell you how much happier I'd be if we could move to Trello.
I'd say in many cities thanks to zoning we don't build up too.

Also what's not helping is public opinion that multi-story buildings (9+) are some ghetto projects, unless it's a luxury condos.
> we have made great progress in addressing the too-big-to-fail dilemma

We got rid of a lot of big, too-big-to-fail, banks since then. The problem is we got rid of a lot of too-big-to-fail banks.
Why do people insist on using this line to criticize the relevance of submissions to the community? You're presumably arguing submissions like this degrade the quality of discussion, but won't submit any reason it isn't relevant to the board. If all you're looking to do is shit in the punchbowl there's other boards for that, and if you think it's completely and blatantly obvious the submission is unsuitable there's a "flag" button available to call a discussion to the attention of the moderators.

My 2 cents, I believe it belongs here because the question of whether social media is a net benefit to society is frequently debated here, and this article uses the tree as an example to argue that it is a net negative. There's some interesting discussion in this thread about attention-seeking vandalism in the context of the internet.
So in fewer words you're asking, "what if by allowing girls into scouts, boy scouts will be driven to join gangs?"
Positional tracking?
On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
1. My former spouse wouldn't answer the home phone when I talked with the kids during the divorce. I wrote an app that texted her and logged the attempt for reporting to the guardian ad litem.

2. She also wouldn't answer the door when during kids pick-up. The same app texted her when I was outside.

3. To disprove her allegations I wasn't involved in the kids school and activities I used Android's Locale app to trigger geofenced log entries.

4. Python and Matplotlib came in quite handy automating timeline generation from PDF docs. Never got that one quite perfect though.

I'm not sure I could have prevailed in getting more time with my kids without the time savings automation gave me. I've seen other fathers stopped cold in Court who were less prepared.
Right, but if Amazon pre-selects from a menu of the former, then cause a competitive bidding war for tax breaks from compliant cities then that's even better from Amazon's perspective isn't it? I personally disagree with the approach, but I would guess that's why the search was publicized.
I disagree the next crisis will be fueled by fintech: fintech does not hide as much risk as the institutions that failed before the crisis. Contrast this with the underlying causes of the financial crises:

First off, as of 2007 AIG, Bear Stearns, and friends were in the center of a large, complex web of interlocked investments, contracts, and creditworthiness assumptions. Billions of dollars in value were declared to be "safe" and used as collateral for further leverage, effectively laundering them of their inherent riskiness. When this web collapsed, it happened all at once. Today's fintech firms run the gamut, but by and large they consist of proprietarily-managed, non-traded funds. There's none of the securitization that allowed risk to creep outward. The result is that a failure in one is less likely to trigger a failure in the entire system.

Secondly, consider whose wealth fintech is managing. If fintech were managing hundreds of billions of dollars of money belonging to people, institutions, and other banks, it'd be cause for concern. But if the marketing of funds like Betterment and Wealthfront are any indication, they're targeting individual investors. Naturally, individuals losing money is a bad thing and would depress demand and confidence for a while, but it's a far cry from the catastrophic, systemic credit crunk we experienced as a result of the crisis.

Finally, just because a system is automated doesn't mean it's going to rogue. Just because an algorithm is complicated doesn't mean it's fragile. I appreciate (and to a certain degree share) the anxiety, but I think it's misplaced in this particular case. This article seems to be to be more about hand-wringing about computers doing things than actual commentary about the structure of the financial system.
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Security through obscurity exists
I just wanted to say that although this seems to be a mantra oft repeated, obscurity does bring an extra layer of security. Something you have no source code for is harder to debug.

Sure, extra eyes on the code could bring security concerns to light, but that assumes there are people caring for your code. What if there aren't any good willing people doing so? So there is some sort of trade off to be made for every codebase - would the benefits of having this public outbalance the benefits of my obscurity?
I hope they flip the table, declare all proposals inadequate and build their own damn town. Negotiate directly with a state or the feds for land and do everything the way they want it.

If Musk can die on Mars, Bezos can damn well own a county.
Just merge the two organizations and call it "scouting" - solved
Made me laugh, I'd forgotten that term. Such gravitas... the Webmaster. Reminds me of IE 2 and Java applets (and trenchcoat wearing tragics that thought they'd found power).
Next year, voting districts may need to look gerrymandered to be constitutional
I am not sure that it is unintentional. The observers may just have not asked what was going on. The reason I'm unsure of intent is the height of the stumps. That's rather abnormal as trees are usually cut much closer to the ground.

Also, the tree could probably have been saved. It didn't look like a cut that would have destroyed the entire tree. A good arborist could have removed that without overly damaging the rest of the tree.

The stumps are all left at unusual angles. Those aren't the result of typical notching and felling techniques. Those were cut intentionally. My guess is they were notched above that and then cut down to that height.

It may be intentional coppicing?
So the brother/nephew found a way to access his bank account, went to the man's house and planted THEIR money without the man or his wife knowing, and took the phone/ gave it back with the draft, days before the man killed himself?

Think about what you just said and whether Occam's razor might apply here.
I guess that's a matter of perspective. I'm not trying to sell it. In fact, quite the opposite.
It's true; you're trusting Mozilla to deliver secure code. You'd be placing a similar amount of trust in Mozilla by using Firefox, since browsers automatically update themselves these days.

What WebCrypto guarantees is that it is truly Mozilla's code that you're trusting, since the WebCrypto APIs are only available in a secure context (HTTPS or localhost).
I'm trying to expand my Chinese vocab, so I usually do something like "<characters> translation"

eg. 拓展 expand
If you're bummed about Broccoli Tree, you might want to make some quality time to spend with your favorite (extant) tree.

Nothing lasts forever, folks. It's all going to be over before you know it.
So, it'll be just like debugging someone else's code!
This might be helpful, though I haven't looked at it in a very long time: https://github.com/madhat2r/plaid2text

Essentially it is some python to download transactions using the plaid API (and requires an account to do so).
I've seen much better videos of simulated walking structures, e.g. [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw
Yes, at least in Star Trek that's actually a thing! In DS9 they use "Ferengi Print" for example during the episode when that Tosk creature comes onto the station.
In response to your self-examination of “being rough”, IMO you’ve presented your perspective in an honest, civil and level-headed way. I hope one day to live in a world where people for and against any issue can discuss that issue with the civility you have demonstrated here.

In my experience, stepping outside of my Liberal-biased comfort zone and having such civil discussions with others has helped me realize that people tend to have so much more in common with each other than their partisan alignments would allow them to think. Also, as a result of that experience, I no longer use such labels to describe myself or others. Because right vs left or whatever branding people may choose for themselves are simply a false dichotomy that keeps us distracted from solving real problems.
I knew the BSA was on a mission to become more inclusive due to declining membership but I didn't see this one coming! I doubt it's a mortal blow for the GSUSA but it's probably going to hurt memberships, especially in the older age groups. Nothing compares to the danger & adventure offered at your typical BSA summer camp.
Eventually this will likely serve both.

This is nothing more than say Samsung Gear VR but without a removable mobile phone

That said being able to use this anywhere as a personal display device as well as not being limited by the pretty heavy umbilical cord setup is the way to go.

If you are going to put wireless hardware in the headset it’s not like a mobile media player and a light application platform will detract from its value.

As an early VR adopter I can say that both my headsets ended up on the shelf after a few weeks.

It’s just too exhausting to play traditional games and with non-VR exclusive titles it’s actually a bit disadvantage in competitive play.

Mouse look and keybind reverse look beat a VR headset in sims and the UI for any titles but EVE Valkyrie is still better on a flat display.

Humans are not owls we can’t turn our necks at lighting speed and there is a reason why even 200M dollar jets have mirrors and now 360 camera coverage.

Games like Elite aren’t designed like an F35 they are designed around mouse look and being able to switching between 3rd and 1st person views quickly.
Until some one will design a VR game with 21st century smart helmet augmented reality style interface in the game it won’t work well and even then mouse look would still likely be faster.

However the killer app for me was actually the home cinema app as well as some of the creative sandboxes.
These don’t need my 1080ti setup and I don’t really want to be tethered to my tower.
> Why don't you convert this into a paid service

and

> I did, ...Had one sale though

Yeah, was about to say, it's too small of a niche. Plus the risk that sooner or later, Saskatchewan would update their site to provide the same feature.
Sponsored by Roomba Inc? /s

I think the thread is about what you automated, not what you bought a product for to automate. E.g. if you order a book online, you didn't exactly automate going to the book store.
I'm fairly interested in the competitive smash bros scene - a common occurrence is that one might record a few hours worth of gameplay after an event and then be too lazy to split the recording into the individual matches, leaving a lot of recorded dead time where nothing is happening.

I learned how to use the gstreamer and opencv libraries to automate recording gameplay only when a game is in progress - it is still a WIP but the basic functionality works.

I'm looking into using a webcam + barcode labels or an NFC scanner to implement a solution to automate naming the players playing each match. If anyone has an idea on how to track something like that I'd be interested in hearing it.
Why do the Mozilla people keep doing this sort of thing?
Aren't they supposed to be making a good browser?

I remember them telling me they are now going back to their core competences. I think it was after Firefox OS failed.

Not trying to piss on anyone's parade here, just wondering how this kind of thing keeps happening. I was wondering the same thing when Mozilla added Pocket and now Cliqz to Firefox.

What is the rationale here? Do they have leftover money they need to spend before January 1st or something?
A suburb of a major city is considered part of that urban metropolis in all those numbers, to the best of my knowledge.
Show HN: “Next tram time” Alexa skill with automated deployment pipeline
Sh*t, I guess it is up to me working a part-time min wage job and trying to solve this climate change thing in my spare time at home so my kid doesn't have to live in an oven. I hope no one minds me periodically cruising SV / Seattle with a skeptical eyebrow face printed on it and a flaming earth on the back. I am thinking of this one: https://media.tenor.com/images/660a1a6615f7eb2a60e51596f838f...
Hopefully NPH doesn't mind.
It's a prisoners dilemma - if no cities offer tax breaks, then Amazon likely still chooses a site in the US, and we all benefit from better balanced gov't budgets (or if there is enough incoming flow - we could lower tax rates in a fiscally responsible way - imagine that). If some cities defect, then well it breaks down to forgoing taxes and public budgets get harder to meet. Federal grant programs should look hard at cities applying for funding who may have given up local tax revenue to attract private corporations.
Maybe you didn't market it to right crowd? I know a lot of South Asian people who go to Saskatchewan just to get their PR.

There are a lot of Software Engineering/Development jobs in Toronto or bigger cities so people in those fields wont leave these bigger cities.
Like how we limit the hardware that malware runs on
Cool work, now hopefully we can stop using increasingly arbitrary notation in papers... ;)
Can confirm. A couple of years ago the ornamental plum in my front yard died and I cut it off near the base. Almost immediately about a hundred new trunks sprouted from the stump and roots, and it was what I considered a handsome shrubbery for a year or so before my wife made me coppice the whole thing out of the ground with axe and pickup truck.
Well... one could argue that, for any new financial product, the skepticism (and therefore level of regulation) should be very high, because we don't know what the dangers are yet. After a decade of experience, the level of regulation could be reduced; after a second decade it could be reduced again.

That's in an ideal world. In this one, of course any regulatory regime is something you try to use for your own competitive advantage, especially if you've got a more cozy relationship with the regulators than your competitor does...