skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it somehow matter? They might not be contractually obligated, but that doesn't mean they should be bad actors about it.

People just want best practices to be used, nothing more. Versioning is one of those. They released what amounts to a whole new font in the namespace of an existing font; they even called it a "major" update and a "complete redesign". On one of their most used fonts.

All people are asking for is that the Montserrat font be reverted back and the new one released as Montserrat v2. They've done it before with major changes to a font, it's not a hard thing to do and there's clearly already policy in place.
nmap <C-m> <ESC>:w!<CR>
nmap <C-n> <ESC>:q<CR>
nmap <C-l> <ESC>:q!<CR>

This is much better. Ctrl-M followed by N does a fast :wq
No, but w and q are on opposite sides of the keyboard.
Even on the 0.5x setting things like the refresh pinwheel spin a little too fast, so 0.25x might be a bit much. It just controls too many different animations.
All I want is a world with a single flat tax, is that too much to ask?
https://www.wired.com/story/what-tech-backlash-google-facebo...

Tech companies still have exceptionally high public favorability compared to other major businesses. They don't even show up on most-hated lists, but get much higher-profile media negativity than loathed companies like Time Warner.

A particularly interesting metric from that article is watching how favorability tracks media coverage. United and Volkswagen abruptly lost significant favorability during their recent scandals, but Facebook's favorability is completely stable. That looks to me like a sign of the media pushing a view that isn't resonating publicly.
>Due to MINIX’s presence on every Intel system, the barebones Linux OS is the most widely deployed operating system in the world.

Yeeeowch. That's a pretty egregious error.
What if the API is open sourced and it doesn’t matter because the device is not open sourced and provides no way to point it to an equivalent API service?
Non-copyleft proprietary software is even better.
Why does this keep getting posted so often?
Not quite - liquidity helps prevents recessions. When recessions happen, people (in the aggregate) work less than they otherwise would.

Our true source of wealth is our output, which is the product of (work * productivity).

See Krugman’s story about the capitol hill baby-sitting coop:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
Ok, the API docs start with: "The devices makes a HTTPS request to product.company.com using a pinned public key." They aren't going to publish their private key or let you control their servers.
A fast port scanner written in Go
> The midwest charged forward a large share of human innovation and large tech basically says: do not bother applying.

UIUC, Wisconsin, Michigan are all awesome CS programs, with tons of alums in big tech companies.
Definitely a win-win if I ever saw one. :-)
That depends on the font's license.
If you have any interest whatsoever in goldeneye I recommend watching some videos from the youtube series "speedlore". It's a guy who has been speedrunning GoldenEye for 20 years (together with their community).

Due to the nature of speedrunning, there is a looooot of details about the game they've investigated and he goes through loads of examples throughout his videos. They definitely reverse engineer the games to figure out how they work so they can do more tricks etc.

The videos are looong but well worth the watch.
This is sort of baffling. Why was Uber even considered for this type of partnership?
Yes, most of the ready-to-use solutions like Philips Hue are very expensive. But there are cheaper options if you're willing to tinker a little bit (and wait a month for things to arrive from China), like $13 smart light switches (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Sonoff-Touch/32808809484.htm...) etc.

I'm still looking for a solution that's inexpensive and gets out of my way (i.e., is aware of what's going on) without phoning home to some server ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every investment I've ever bought has gone down within 6 months of the time I bought it. Unless you perfectly time a bottom that's what's gonna happen. The question is where it is in 6 years, not 6 months.

Plus, for a hedge fund there are a lot of initial costs and entering a position is where expenses happen generally.
I am curious if you can use this "process" to spot a fake. Fake handbags are a BIG problem in the luxury accessories market. R-CNN. Object detection and classification.
Thanks a ton for that
CME Group will launch Bitcoin futures
Do you have any examples of monopolies arise naturally in unregulated market?
Anything that was previously there or anything that might enrich the lives of those outside our bubble. As the infamous Dropbox soccer bros video[1] suggests, "we're part of the community" often means something more like "our money and presence entitle us to have our way here" than "we'd like to share in your way of life."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPVY1DcupE
My beginner’s guide to choosing a laptop for programming
PC "free market" only took off when someone found a means to legally screw with IBM's monopoly on the BIOS. You also seem to have forgotten why quips such as "Wintel", "Chipzilla", "M$", "Adopt Extend Extinguish" were created. And that's just limited to ICT...
but but but, that one guy said that women were different.

you're all idiots.

you deserve this. you deserve worse.
More flexibility to capture Alpha with less funds but requires a separate strategy compared to fund managing billions or trillions of dollars.
Your sources are staggeringly biased. Misrepresenting statistics by making it intentionally complicated.

>No it didnt

Average ~25-30% growth in urban india.[1]

> Questionable

Seriously ? Official data is available. Can't you judge it yourself? Communist 'thewire' is your source that too for when there is official clarifications?[4]

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/img/61556580/Master.jpg

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/img/61556578/Master.jpg

[3] https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/neftview.aspx

[4] http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170087

[5] http://indianexpress.com/article/business/demonetisation-imp...
I wouldn't be surprised for GitHub to eventually auto archive projects if they haven't been modified in X years and move them to cold storage. This could probably result in some significant cost savings.
https://qz.com/843902/1-of-indians-now-hold-nearly-60-of-the...
> Nightly (58)

It depends on when you ran nightly; Quantum is the name for 57+. Sounds like you were using it.
Yes. Student loans, car loans, credit cards, payday loans, and mortgages make it incredibly tough to get a positive net worth nowadays.

Combine the expectation a better tomorrow(the American Dream) with a declining middle class, and massive amounts of debt is what results.
Arivale: genetic data and nutrition coaching. It's FREE (today only)
Collective ownership of all MacBook Pros? Or of my efforts with the one I use? I suppose I wouldn't get to choose the terms with which I distribute my software, at the very least?
Not smooth enough at low resolution.

Sorry, consolas still undefeated.
I use Github so much these days that a change like this that doesn't have any major disadvantages is always a positive bonus to my life.
When a maintainer (like me) doesn't want to deal with a project any more, this will actually encourage forks where the software lives a second life.
Hi. Thanks for the great article.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "directions in activation space" ? If I understand it right:

You take a few neurons in a layer, and you follow some linear combination of their weights; you are then walking along a random direction. You take a single neuron and walk along its weights; you walk along this neuron's direction. Is this correct?

Also another comment: Szegedy et al [9] (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6199.pdf) has the following abstract:

> First, we find that there is no distinction between individual high level units and random linear combinations of high level units, according to various methods of unit analysis. It suggests that it is the space, rather than the individual units, that contains the semantic information in the high layers of neural networks.

This is one of the predictions of the following paper, even though I think it came later: Opening the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks via Information (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00810). Here: https://youtu.be/FSfN2K3tnJU?t=1h19m23s, Tishby says: "One of the consequences of this theory is that single neurons in a layer don't tell us much."

Also, If you extend this idea to training examples, you get Mixup (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09412.pdf)
A company is not just a group of people. At least, any publicly-traded company has a legal obligation to it's shareholders. The job of the Board of Directors is to ensure that the company is performing as optimally as possible to earn as much as possible for the shareholders. Morals aren't a part of the equation, it's all exploiting the confines of the law.
The way I see it is income inequality is just the derivative of wealth inequality. Opportunity inequality is the derivative of income inequality. Opportunity equality is the idea of a level playing field. When people complain about income inequality, they're really complaining about opportunity inequality, which I believe drives the bulk of income inequality. All that people are asking for is real opportunity equality.

My opportunity to succeed (which drives my potential income, which drives my potential wealth) is not equal to that of a guy whose parents are billionaires, went to private school and an Ivy League college, and has a contact list full of CEOs and high up politicians. My opportunity to succeed is also not equal to that of a guy whose parents are divorced and poor, lives in a gang-ridden neighborhood, and is stuck in the school-to-prison pipeline. The playing field is not level.
But you know that even if you eliminated corporate tax, companies would not pay out profits as dividends, if there was a loophole around it. And there are loads, of course. Share buybacks, for example.
And if the cars are self-driving, the school doesn't need parking. The kids can be dropped off and the car will drive itself home. Of course that means a doubling the total number of physical trips, but that isn't the school's problem.

I'm waiting for the ability to, rather than pay for parking, have my car circle the block while I eat lunch. The cost of running an electric vehicle for a few hours is far less than paying to park.
This doesn't seem to contain anything new from the previous stories, one of which was even submitted by you :/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15641592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15634014
My main open source project is http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net and during typical development I wouldn't say that I had promoted it too much. Within the past year or so I did end up doing some fundraising for the project which did turn into a marketing heavy endeavor (videos/marketing only email lists/update posts targeting users/long replies to email or forums/etc). Some of the marketing emails were fun to show off new features, but they did eat a fair amount of time when they were coming out at a reasonable pace. Outside of that one time period the application receives most of its marketing from independent interested users and release announcements.

per the questions:

> 1) why did you start it?

I took over as a maintainer when I wanted to use the application and bugs/missing features were an issue (IIRC it was without a maintainer for ~3 years).

> 2) how did people find it?

Originally the project was marketed via mailing lists/forums/blogs/software review sites/early youtube or pre-youtube videos/etc. After a few years it ended up being presented in an open source community conference. Currently a fair amount of web traffic comes from a few freeware review sites in addition to the general linux community which is spread over a larger variety of sites (and more difficult to pinpoint as most users are going to obtain copies from their package manager rather than the website).

> 3) did you post it somewhere to get traction?

The releases are posted to 2 forums, 2 mailing lists. It's original release was only posted to a single audio based mailing list (AFAIK).
When working on fundraising bits were posted to 2 different other mailing lists and information was provided to 3 software review sites, one of which posted the information provided.

> 4) do you think it's unfair to just work on something you like but never take the time to get the word out?

Nope. You're spending your time working on something. If your goals align with having other people utilize your work, then by all means talk about it, otherwise there's no problem whatsoever with keeping it to yourself. Also consider that marketing for contributors and marketing for users are two (sometimes different) activities.
Hedge funds operate across a whole bunch of arbitrage options -- not all of which are available to Quantopian.

At most hedge funds, "alpha" boils down to information asymmetry (aka "how well-connected is my fund manager?") Pure quant platforms almost never outperform because they're so easy to replicate. Quantopian doesn't have enough "levers" to be able to build a comprehensive arbitrage plan. They might be able to provide low-cost hedging on the greeks, but that's just 1980s finance with computers.

Furthermore, it's not the brilliant coder who just joined who makes you all the money. It's the brilliant coder with 15 years experience under his belt who makes way too much to bother with Quantopian who is writing the winners. It's not unheard of for top quant programmers to pull down 8-figures annually.

Those guys are just not gonna mess with Quantopian -- they're going to eat it (and any platform like it) for lunch. In quant finance, if you're not the smartest guy in the space you're playing in, you're just another sucker.
The titling is deliberately chosen to mislead readers.
Cold storage typically means offline storage. That is not what this is. The storage needs to be just as fast as any normal repo. The point of this change is not an infrastructure one, but an organizational one, as a signal to viewers of the repo that the repo is no longer being maintained.
Linux Is Not UniX.
Heh, even hawala couldnt account for those numbers.

Total amount demonitized is 15.44 lak crore, 15.28 returned.

thats .16 lakh crore - or .16 * 100000 = 16000 crore missing.

and 5k of that is in Kerala.

It stretches my credulity.
Wealth preservation isn't really the point of most hedge funds. Bond index funds that invest in only the highest rated sovereign and corporate debt are cheaper ways to preserve wealth which outperform stock index funds when they're tanking and underperform them when they're doing well. Hedge funds serve other purposes.
No, that's pretty much completely wrong. For example, look at one of the key characteristics of feudalism, serfdom[1]:

Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. It was a condition of bondage, which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century. Serfs who occupied a plot of land were required to work for the lord of the manor who owned that land.

OTOH, Libertarianism is explicitly based on the idea of self-ownership and rejects the idea of that style of bondage (although certainly allowing for debt, and any kind of contractual obligation one wants to voluntarily enter into), and also supports property rights for everyone, not just "lords" and "vassals" and so forth. [2]

Individuals own their bodies and have rights over them that other individuals, groups, and governments may not violate. Individuals have the freedom and responsibility to decide what they knowingly and voluntarily consume, and what risks they accept to their own health, finances, safety, or life.

As respect for property rights is fundamental to maintaining a free and prosperous society, it follows that the freedom to contract to obtain, retain, profit from, manage, or dispose of one’s property must also be upheld. Libertarians would free property owners from government restrictions on their rights to control and enjoy their property, as long as their choices do not harm or infringe on the rights of others. Eminent domain, civil asset forfeiture, governmental limits on profits, governmental production mandates, and governmental controls on prices of goods and services (including wages, rents, and interest) are abridgements of such fundamental rights. For voluntary dealings among private entities, parties should be free to choose with whom they trade and set whatever trade terms are mutually agreeable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom

[2]: https://www.lp.org/platform/
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
When was the last time you used firefox? There's been a ton of improvements in this area in the past few years (off the main thread compositing, async pan/zoom, e10s etc...). Scrolling is now smooth even when pages are loading, or there's activity in other tabs etc...

I actually use Firefox over Chrome on my xps 13, mainly because firefox's scrolling is considerably smoother than chrome (only beaten out by Edge)
Eh - 30 weeks, you have to remember these homeless have a handicap factor because of all the hepatitis and crack
The first rule of AliExpress is you don't buy anything that comes into contact with >12V on AliExpress unless you want to start a fire. The logic board probably isn't going to set your living room ablaze.
zinger point taken, but consider:

1 - compared to a rock, all humans are equal (note: this is not a political statement and has no relationship to theocracy)

2 - if a unit of food sits on the ground between two people, they are free to behave however they want, either can choose to pick up the food or not - this is liberty

3 - given that a unit of food when found will be split evenly (by some process out of an individual's control) their behavior no longer matters - this is not liberty
Right, but you would just be one of the rare users that turns the system off. Which is fine, but don't let it blind you to what the typical user wants.

"Just use the /search feature to find replies" isn't something I can say with a straight face to the sort of users I have. I would just leak them to competing forums that have good UX. It's no ideal for someone to be unaware that a thoughtful reply was made to a post they invested in.
The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper [voting]
I think that's slightly simpler to work around - my mom probably wouldn't be able to do it without help, but most people commenting here could redirect DNS requests to point to your own API.
I particularly liked this comment: "This is not practical for agencies. The sites have shipped, there's no budget for us"

I am sure whatever it costs to go back and fix those sites, it is far less than what it would cost to license a commercial font.
Thanks for the recommendation, I've tried it out and it seems great so far, especially for a free service
I think i'd word my statements better if my software was involved in a big security exploit, just to totally cover my ass now that the pentesters are going to hammer my kernel.
You can bet this will happen with all the early adopter smart home devices like Samsung Smart Things once Amazon's and Google's hubs become the standard.
against who?

Most of those firms earn less than the barrier for payment being required. So which taxes and who?
Would be great if the summaries were actually summaries. I'm guessing this is just a proof of concept though? I like the idea.
Penn Jillette also describes himself as representative of libertarianism and he voted for Hillary Clinton. Frankly I find him to be a far better representative of the political philosophy than Thiel is.

Libertarians want both economic freedom (which includes many things Trump policies against like free trade and lax immigration restrictions) and social freedom (keeping government out of debates like bathroom use and abortion), which I would argue is more than half incompatible with Trump's aphilosophical racially charged nationalism.

I would guess less than 10% of tech workers are actually libertarian, and that there are more conservatives in tech than libertarians. Most are probably Democrats (for many varied and diverse reasons). But having them be the same as a lot of other people makes it harder to de-humanize them, so when that's the agenda on the table, they frequently all get pidgeonholed into being "libertarians" anyways because it's an excellent straw man.
This is a really positive development for Snap -- one of their biggest challenges is that while Facebook, WeChat, WhatsApp, LINE, and other social networking apps have been gobbling the newly international user-base, Snap has really stalled, with user growth of only about 10% in the last year in "Rest of world" (non-Asia/Europe). [1] Hopefully Tencent can help them get back on track

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/one-chart-shows-snapchats-use...
Does Age Bring Wisdom?
No "hedging" in Index funds;
Are you aware of the fact that Sillicon Valley was created by the US Government?
yes, Bold Monday, sorry for the mistake

fonts/ibm $ otfinfo -i IBMPlexSans-Regular.ttf
Family: IBM Plex Sans
Subfamily: Regular
Full name: IBM Plex Sans
PostScript name: IBMPlexSans
Version: Version 1.000
Unique ID: 1.000;IBM ;IBMPlexSans
Designer: Mike Abbink, Bold Monday
Designer URL: http://www.ibm.com
Manufacturer: Bold Monday
Vendor URL: http://www.boldmonday.com
Trademark: IBM Plex™ is a trademark of IBM Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide.
Copyright: © 2017 IBM Corp. All rights reserved.
Sample text: How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!
Vendor ID: IBM
Go beyond console.log with the Firefox Debugger
Maybe they have decided to limit the choices to just enough for the web in order to limit the download size of a typical landing page? There are too many websites out there that pull complete weight ranges of multiple webfonts.
3 quarters of low revenue and high expenses, does China feel the company growth prospects plus its relative poor performance make it undervalued to the public?

Maybe just a gamble?
I think median statistics would enhance the insight available through this tool.

Averages are not particularly useful when confounded by the very shifting distributional patterns this is attempting to illuminate.

I'm the median Chinese worker. Per-adult national wealth has been exploding since 1987. The bottom 50% share of wealth and income has been plummeting, so inequality has been growing, too. But I'm a lot better off than my counterpart 30 years ago, aren't I?
A role as small as possible, but not smaller. Specifics depends of the domain, and there you need a domain expert, which I am not.

I just believe that as a general strategy, we should be continuously attempting to reduce govt power and involvement while allowing the free markets to work.

I am worried that we are doing the opposite, where our current response to pretty much any issue is more govt regulation/intervention instead. A middle way would be great.
Nice typeface. But I'm a bit confused.

The title on Github (and here) say "IBM Type."

But what is IBM Type? It's never explained. Instead the site leads off with an explanation of typography. Then it introduces a specific type. It never tells us what "IBM Type" encompasses or if it is a project, a group, a new thing, and old thing, a software package, a consulting service... etc... yes it says some revisions are coming, and it will be out of beta soon, but what is it?

This is again another project without a proper introduction. All too common on Github and other OSS sites.

That being said, the teaching examples on typography embedded in the document are great.
I agree, but this is not always possible. I was in the market for a new TV set couple of months ago and all the models with a great image technology come with the "smart tv" built in.

It is not possible to buy a high-end panel without it anymore.