skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What is the best way to buy US stock from outside the US?
The brand is not the product.
Agreed. Even if a given fraudulent account wasn't specifically created to be a honeypot, promptly banning it affords the creator more time to iterate on their method.
Is there a better way to introduce chef?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-v...

"Two investors in Juicero were surprised to learn the startup’s juice packs could be squeezed by hand without using its high-tech machine."
To be sure, JBenet is clear they are not yet quite ready to do the whole thing.
>> Everything in our world is purely mathematical — including you.

> —which isn't really so significant if you are implicitly ignoring any interior aspects.

You are quoting the quite catchy climax of the introduction. The paragraph this quote ends with starts with "So here is the crux of my argument." The author is trying to pave the way for the actual argument and a context-free quote of the buildup does not help the discourse.

>> Do you have any links? I'd like to read more.

> I've already spent far too much time on this thread

I am sorry to have wasted your time with requests for foundations of your claims.

> Edit: also: this is just a recent manifestation of the idea, which has been around at least since Plato.

Which aspect? I actually find it very refreshing to read an essay that goes down to foundations of philosophy. If your valuable time allows, could you maybe find the time to explicitly point out congruent arguments in philosophy "since Plato"?
I was referring to the extensive subsidies and regulatory capture in the USA. I have no opinion nor do I particularly care about it being “democratic” or “republican”
I don't buy it.

Facebook knows with absolute certainty if an account is legit or not.

Cambridge Analytics, Lexis/Nexus (nee Seisent), ChoicePoint (oops, bought by Lexis/Nexus), Palantir, NSA, and others have all uniquely identitied every person, living or dead.

Facebook has even more data. Facebook even has phantom profiles for people without accounts. Of course they know who's legit. They can't not know.

Just like Facebook juices their ad numbers, they're lying here too.

Frankly, I'm shocked, shocked that Facebook would lie about their culpability here.

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Twitter might plausibly not know. So they can contract with any of the dozen of 3rd parties that provide demographic databases as a service.
A little tongue in cheek, but maybe not:

7M chatbot development

14M enterprise marketing materials

28M accounting and compliance response to enterprise requirements

56M enterprise sales team & expenses

12M reserve & voice mail development

They'll need another round in less than a year.
Becoming a multi-platinum-selling musician/rapper is sure as hell not trivial, but I don't think that's what you're asking.
Then what happens?

If I were the adversary, I would respond by dedicating a fraction of my fake accounts to reporting thousands of random Facebook users. Gum up the system.
Grab a drink with other travel entrepreneurs and a $1 open bar courtesy of Hooch
So you are saying you would want one physical square inch on a phone to be the exact same size one square inch on a projector screen?

I have been designing and building interfaces for a couple decades and I have been down the "relative size" path and learned not to do that the hard way. There lies nothing but tears. Sizing to pixels, for some reason, results in the most predictable and consistent appearances.
We used to let our kids have semi-supervised YouTube Kids time on our iPad, but they were getting into content that wasn't age appropriate through recommended videos. (The app now lets you turn off search and recommended videos, so the majority of content is from vetted, more family-friendly producers like Disney, Nickolodeon and Dreamworks.)

But even if we selected good videos only, we came to realise that (along with video games) we were abdicating parenting to a screen so that we could ignore our children for a while. This is to some extent a useful stress relief strategy – we all need a break sometimes – but without being anti-technology about it, there are better things children can be doing with their time.
You're right that copyright law does not need a special case here. Rather, taxpayer-funded research grants should come with the requirement that all findings will be published open access. If you want to publish in Nature, go get your own research money. Scientists should not have complete personal ownership over subsidized research that they conduct.
I keep hearing youtube ads for apps that let you speculate on cryptocurrencies
Was asking about beats more than Will.i.am.
>> To Jasmine, a little girl with olive skin and dark eyes prone to faraway expressions, it felt like camping.

This is a weird thing that I've noticed before, with the way non-Greeks perceive -or at least, describe- the skin colour of Greeks.

It's clear from her pictures that Jasmine's skin is not "olive", but rather white. In some of her early pictures, she's pasty-white. The same goes for her mother. Which makes absolute sense, given that their heritage is Greek and Greeks don't have "olive" skin.

Anecdotally, it seems that many non-Greeks have a firmly lodged belief about the "olive" colour of Greeks that persists even after they meet a real live specimen. For example, an older Greek friend who did her PhD in Ann Arbour, Michigan has told me how her American fellow students called her "our olive-skinned friend". My friend is blond, with blue eyes and yoghurt-white skin that is now mottled with a million freckles, from her exposure to the Greek sun. It's hard to imagine "olive" skin getting freckled.

I've experienced myself this odd disconnect between my actual skin colour and the skin colour people perceive me as having, when a Sri-Lankan friend recommended to me her make-up colour, which was at least two tones darker than my skin has ever been even in the height of summer. I mean, my friend is chocolate-brown. Like my older Greek friend, I too am fair haired and light skinned. I'd look ridiculous with brown makeup.

In fact, if you think about it, "olive" doesn't sound like any human skin colour. Olives' colours range from brownish-green to black. Greeks can range from fair to dark, but not black- and certainly not green. I think the strange expression comes from Homer, who is known to have some pretty weird (by modern standards) ideas about the colour of things. Famously, he described the sea as "wine-like".

It's kind of funny to see how his strange description has persisted to this day and how it seems to affect peoples' perception.
So wait, wouldn’t that just mean an end to USA companies operating abroad as USA companies? Microsoft has to invest money in china for example, they just can repatriate profits from China willy nippy, and China would get pissed of about it. Also, might as well make SAP do it also, even if a German company, otherwise American companies can’t compete with them.
These are all great arguments for why Facebook's current model can never be a good way to run a social network. We need tools for people to build their own networks and make their own decisions, not a centralized network where all the decisions for the entire world are made by a small team in California.
First of all, Intel and AMD are not rivals. The only reason AMD is alive is because Intel lets it live. Intel would pretty much become a monopoly in the server line if AMD were to disappear.
Or, you know, we could allow construction of housing that people can actually afford. Portland's Willamette Week free newspaper had a great writeup of the issues last year:

http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/09/28/portland-needs-to-build...

But apparently if we allowed houses that people could afford, then the housing might not all be in sufficiently trendy neighborhoods. And some of it might not be pretty enough. And some of our buddies in the "affordable housing" nonprofits might miss out on the funding. The horrors!

So instead we leave people to live in tents under highway bridges. Good job Portland.

When Willamette Week is calling you out for being too anti-corporate, you know you have a problem.
Emotion shapes perception.

How a customer feels about a brand will have a very real impact on their experience with a product.
LaTeX is not an efficient way to create anything.

But, to be fair, it's not supposed to be efficient - it's supposed to be consistent.

But I really wish it was less painful to use.
Friends of my parents started to mention offhand how our phone line was always busy a little while after we got the modem.

Back then it was mostly BBSes because AOL/Compuserv/Prodigy/GEnie all charged by the hour and were quite expensive. Cheapest was around $1/hour, and it didn't even get you proper Internet access. Neither did the BBSes, but at least they were free.
Isn't that just a wrap?

flex-wrap: wrap;
Cyclist Lost Her Job After Raising Middle Finger at Trump’s Motorcade
There's a demo I wrote using jQuery UI Draggable that used to work with touch on mobile (using jquery ui touch punch) that no longer works.

I actually had no idea what could've broke it until I saw this submission. It's still not going to be fixed though since I don't remember the code. I assume a lot of people are in a similar position.
I think you're reading too much into the word "female" -- although I do agree that its use in this context is kind of weird (why not say girl, or woman?).

I think you're reading to much into it because it's pretty well-known that in startup circles being a woman is, generally speaking, a net negative. So an argument that she got funded because she's a woman goes against matter-of-fact realities in Silicon Valley.
On Windows I get the lowercase eth (ð)
An interesting exercise would be to compile notification dates with code commit dates, and then compare the average difference (notification date - commit date) among groups.

If there's a discrepancy, then that's possible evidence one group might be hoarding bugs, or at least waiting for notification approval from, e.g., a domestic intelligence agency.
This is after $89mm if I am reading it right
> But, AI can help in this regard too. Just install some parental control plugin that only allows educational content to come onto the device.

That's what Youtube Kids purports to be. You're just suggesting sending in more trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5JiPj9c98Y
Presumably the admins will delete the “John McCarthy” from this (ref the Mars travesty)
The N64 came out in 1996. Be lucky it isn’t Windows 95 you have to install.
The Psychology of Designer Handbags
You're looking at this on a personal level; I'm trying to look at it on a bigger societal level. I don't want to live in a country populated by nazis and flat-earthers, no more than I want to live in a country where you can smoke in restaurants, drink and drive, or advertise cigarettes to children.

I might be able to see people for the fools they are, but I still have to live with them, live next to them, and live with the impacts they're having on society, and so will my children.
How could it be offered at places that don't offer it? The robot is autonomous it is controlled by a surgeon.
Ah, I was referring Dr. Dre -- Beats' eponymous primary investor (but I think it probably applies to will.i.am too).
All absolutely true. I worked on an orthopedic surgical robot and hospitals got excited about it ("Advanced!") but surgeons hated it (slow, cumbersome, reduces "patients fixed per day" metric). Mostly a waste of money.
"CPU" is commonly used in operating systems to describe any logical processor, no matter if it is a thread from a core for processors that implement simultaneous multithreading (like Intel Hyper-Threading Technology). vCPU is the same concept, it's a logical unit of execution.

Since Intel processors have HTT and many workloads benefit from it, it makes sense to map the underlying physical execution units 1:1 as vCPUs. For c5.18xlarge, all of the logical processors of the system (72 threads on 36 cores) are provided as vCPUs.

If a workload does not scale well with threads, you can essentially turn them off by disabling CPUs in the OS, like maxcpus=(vcpus/2) for Linux based OSes. (e.g., maxcpus=36 for c5.18xlarge).
Congratulations on your opinion! You are free to disable JavaScript on your own browser and be rid of it forever. Meanwhile, in the real world, JavaScript is never "getting off the web".
As I've seen others mention, there seems to be a divide between the most user friendly behavior for: (1) public webpage w wide ranging user base that will be consistently updated and developed+ monitored for the widest compatibility, latest security, and (2) the CRM, intranet app, hardware config portal, etc. that will not. Any web devs have recommendations on how they handle the two circumstances?
I spent years in all sorts of ORMs and have sworn off them in favor of pure-SQL patterns like yesql (for Clojure) and massive-js (for Node.js). For me, the boilerplate of writing SQL queries is trivial compared to the productivity and performance inefficiencies of trying to understand and work around the magic of ORMs. Writing pure queries also encourages good practices like writing field lists in your SELECT statements and using more of Postgres' built-in functions.
Which previous head of state appeared to base important decisions on who could make him feel the most special that day? Because whether I agreed with their politics or not, I can't recall one.
People buying random clearance items from Walmart to sell on Amazon has zero impact on our business. We buy wholesale lots for thousands of dollars at a time, stock them in a huge warehouse, and employ a team of workers to sort, evaluate, list, and ship the items. A single person working from their basement can't even touch that.

It's been sustainable for the nearly 20 years the owners have been doing it, and the rise of Amazon and eBay has caused an explosion of growth over the majority of that time.

As for myself, my role there is multifaceted (mainly IT and website management, and helping out everywhere else as needed). I'm paid better than I was in government work, and I'm enjoying it a lot more.
But pixels are a lie!

Pixels are being scaled all over the place these days, up to 300-400%.

The only reason pixels appear to "work" is that everyone uses pixels, so the software has to be written to lie about pixels. And so they continue to seem to work and people continue to use them to size things.

They might as well just call them "screen fractions" or something, because they sure aren't pixels.
Pieter Abbeel's New Robotics Start-Up
While I’m always excited to see Commodore 8-bits in the news, connecting one to IRC and talking to a bot is nothing new.
Are you a parent? The way YouTube works - and how centralized video has become - means it's extremely easy to let a kid fall into these dark areas just by playing one innocent video. There is no obvious option to hide the rest of the UI, stop autoplay or recommended videos.

It also is nothing, absolutely nothing like Looney Tunes. Please watch the videos linked by the article before making such a statement. In one of them, Peppa Pig uses a razor blade to slice a piece of her own arm, right after eating her own father.
Anything society has the resources to do now, we’ll have the resources to do after the advent of driverless cars. Driverless cars will strictly increase productivity—they let us produce more output with the same input of labor and capital.

So no, it is not better to give people resources for performing a completely meaningless task. If the task were completely meaningless then we could provide them the same resources without requiring the labor. Neo-Luddites arguing against driverless cars are fighting the wrong thing. Their fight should be distribution of wealth created, not against innovation that increases productivity and makes our lives collectively easier.
The curious relationship between altitude and suicide
An enemy combatant from the US fighting for ISIS in Iraq? Give him to the Iraqis or Kurds.
For laptop purposes, wouldn't Intel just stack 8 or 16GB of main memory DRAM, like they would HBM?
I don't have the power to entice politicians to enact loopholes which I can then take advantage of.

A ambassador might take advantage of his diplomatic immunity to commit a crime with impunity. One could say, "what's wrong with that? he was acting within the law." Or one could say, "That ambassador is a vile person and is taking advantage of the system."
HR is not your friend. One of her mistakes was going to them first. HR exists to protect the company. Employees are liabilities in many respects from their point of view.
Yes, that's why I mentioned that in the question.

As an aside: I know it's not the done thing to complain about down votes, but I do find an honest, polite question - not even a statement - being modded to oblivion somewhat unusual.
I didn't get into it until the 14400 baud modems came out and the prices dropped precipitously. I remember we had one for the Mac that plugged into the keyboard/mouse port (ADB) which I thought was pretty weird at the time.

Then I went to school and got a PC and an ISA modem. Turns out it was a precursor to the Software Modems (Winmodems) that came out a couple of years later. It had all of the hardware to negotiate the connection and modulate the data, but offloaded the error correction and compression to the host os. Of course the drivers only worked on Win3.1, so I had to go without most of the time. Turns out it was actually better for gaming since they added latency and my phone lines were clean enough that it wasn't an issue. The only bad thing is that if someone picked up the phone, even for a second, you would lose your link. It just couldn't recover.
Went to fast and fat-fingered it. Works now!
I would wager that if asked, a user would prefer that a website continue to work.
I think what PeachPlum is saying is that the words "the outcomes are comparable" has already injected an interpretation into the data, which, if not revealed in the article, is difficult to agree with.
This article seems to treat this as if something bad happened. Seems like the train was named and all parties seem happy with it.
Price please.
Thank you - I hope to eventually produce a paper about alternative continuous and discrete means/norms. Kolmogorov went 5/10 the way, I think I brought his line of questioning to its rightful conclusion. Theres a lot of research to still be done however - only certain forms have easy closed forms when taken on continuous spaces.
You might enjoy Part 2: https://scrollto.com/means-of-infinite-sets-and-more/

I actually have never used J, have only minor experience with Clojure in a startup codebase I once worked on, and never heard of Maxima. You have invited me to explore J and Maxima and I thank you for that. So far, I have used solely Mathematica for mathematics. I've tried python with pandas and other libraries but the syntax always seemed obtuse for me. Python's C call interop is why its so library friendly - but the actual language makes these libraries seem bolted on, less integrated than preferable. There are so many languages to try: Haskell, Rust and Julia are on my bucket list. I've mostly conceded to just learning languages when I need to - for an open source codebase or new job. To me, coding is a means to an end of production of tools, apps, deliverables.. Curiosity can deliver one into an abyss of stasis - where one learns all the most amazing expressiveness tools and techniques but never builds anything with them. All a balance..right. Godspeed :-)
Having spent many years in a company with banks as clients, thank you for so clearly confirming what I have always suspected.
Those exceptions are found by the millions. There are depictions of rape, cannibalism, gory death and all kinds of violence. Not even safe for <16 year olds, and we are talking about little children.
There's no reason both can't be true. In the case of Theranos in particular, the fact that she was a female founder in a hypertechnical field gave her some level of cachet. It may have worked against her in other ways, and it definitely works against many women all over the place.

In order to have these discussions, we just have to be able to hold nuance in our minds. Yes, Elizabeth Holmes in particular due to accidents of fate may have benefited unfairly from being a woman at a time when VC companies wanted to be seen as progressive and friendly to women and minorities. However, that doesn't have much at all to say about the struggle of women generally in tech, or in society at large.
You know what? Just buy the book and if you don't like it, tell me. I'll refund you. My guess is that you will like it ;-)
The premise assumes that Engineering, rather than Marketing or Sales, has the final say on public interfaces.
How about an Administration interface that allows you to set a password to a known value for the user to use so they can log back into their account.

So the helpful support person can now go "Your password is now 'foobar' and you will be asked to pick a new one when you login."
Eh, probably. But on the other hand, there's no point in mentioning that a girl is a girl. It'd be conspicuously out of place to say "young male wunderkind."

I agree that it's pointless to go on like this. I didn't mean to put anyone on the spot or call anyone out. It's actually just been on my mind lately, and I've been looking for an excuse to talk about some of this stuff openly. It seems like an important conversation to have, but there aren't many opportunities or contexts to have it without attracting trolls.
Why they don't start publishing in Sci-Hub directly instead?
You sound like a solo programmer not considering any aspects on how to run a company that serves a global client base.
Masonry is something somewhat fundamentally unique given it relies on how things flow across both dimensions in a specific way; there's been some vague talk about extending Grid to support it (but nobody's actively working on things like that for now, even subgrids have gone a bit quiet), but probably more practically we'll stick to doing complex layout modes with a limited scope in JS (and hopefully soonish with Houdini and avoid much of the costs associated with current ways of doing layout in JS), given solving things like Masonry in a general way is hard (and relatively unclear that the gain is much for the amount of work involved).

As for number of layout modes, it depends on how you count. Roughly: block, inline, table, positioned, flexbox, and grid. Multicol doesn't actually introduce a new layout mode, it just functions in a similar way to fragmentation when doing layout for printed media, just fragmenting across columns instead of across pages.
I spoke to a colleague who had done some work in his PhD in the physical chemistry of cells. Concepts like 'liquid' do not translate well at the intra-cellular level. 'holes' or 'channels' in a membrane, again are mostly about metaphors rather than mechanistic statements of completeness. he said for some things, an Escher infinite-space filling grid was as good a metaphor, for the cellular structure that the various organelles negotiate. (this btw, is asinine, and would deserve a "physical chemist here: this is bullshit" response)
You should work on your branding.
Not really. For example the chip I mentioned (and most others) includes JTAG test capability, and several programmable modes. That makes it possible to test the chip more easily. Also some of the most common errors (overvoltage/overcurrent applied to inputs) will likely result in a short to ground, so they'll show up when checking the chip's power input with a multimeter: it will be shorted to ground! Other errors can cause other symptoms, but needing to actually view the signal is pretty rare.