skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>farming money for a bunch of questionable people.

The "questionable people" include grandparents, firemen, teachers, etc with pensions and retirement funds.

>I don't see it contributing to some greater vision or cause. [...] I guess it's just a case of lack of empathy on my part.

Your sentiment is common and I think it's caused by people not connecting the dots from grandparents' retirement pension to the hedge fund trader.

As one example, at the micro level, grandparents are depending on a pension.[1] They also don't want their _real_ purchasing power to diminish. The "real" not "nominal" purchasing power is an important distinction because if the price of bread is $2 in 2017 but becomes $4 in 2037, they want to have adequate future money to buy food.
In other words, they want their money to grow and keep up with inflation.

Your grandparents stashing money in a savings account paying less than 1% will not protect their purchasing power from inflation. Likewise, the pension manager that oversees a $1 billion retirement fund to pay retired teachers will declare it bankrupt if it only gets a 1% return by buying Treasury Bills. The pension's assumptions to avoid insolvency might require 8% or better annual returns.

Therefore, all these participants in the economy are looking for better returns. You can't get 8% from savings accounts and t-bills. That's where money managers like private equity, hedge funds, and VCs in Silicon Valley come in. They sell their ability to generate higher returns.
This expertise attracts capital from entities like pension funds.

So basically, a bunch of programmers are fine tuning algorithms because [...connect a bunch of dots...] your grandmother doesn't want to be a starving destitute and live under a bridge in her retirement years. If you multiply millions of everyday people not wanting to be destitute (macro level), you end up with hedge fund managers with billions to play with.

That said, can we "reconfigure society" so that all this competitive activity of shuffling money from one pile to another isn't done? Maybe. It would involve fundamental changes that we all can't agree on. For example, if you stop inflation you can stop the incentive to generate returns that try to beat inflation; but then some would say that "deflation" would lead to people hoarding money and the economy would crash. Inflation is the current winning ideology for the modern economy. It's hard to see how we could alter society such that Wall Street traders go away.

[1] for example, the $300 billion California Public Employees pension fund provides these benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalPERS#Benefits
Excellent, well put!
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They mean stdout, right?
One thing that stands out in this story is that we don't have an authenticated email system that most people are willing to use, and this causes real problems.
> We should always ask our search engine what are the personal data that it does not collect

I like this - the default choice should be to explain rather than the other way around. There's a huge "information symmetry" gap and the more the gap widens the more difficult it is for people who don't have the required information to prove something violates privacy.
For people looking through the archives: FMSLogo is an updated version of MSWLogo, and is linked to from the same page. It runs beautifully under Wine, too, so not being on Windows is no excuse for not trying it out. ;)
> I just want to get really good on the mandolin

There’s something sweet about that :) But a few centuries later, you sure you’ll still enjoy it?

Myself, I’m prone to getting frustrated that I can’t learn faster, but we just have to make peace with that. Being in ignorance and pain can sometimes be what makes life so poignant. Who knows, there will never be enough years that we can be satisfied with.

I better take off my musing hat now..
The original question was sarcastically asking whether reading the documentation was too much to ask, implying that laziness was the issue. I responded that for the target market, yes, it actually is too much to ask, and not because of laziness.

I didn't come in and say the whole thing was a bad idea and that it should be abandoned. Just that if the design requires more than a paragraph of explanation, then that's a serious problem for the target audience. As well as pointing out that the idea of not requiring opt-in actually causes the friction that it seeks to avoid.

If insight into the target audience's perspective is demoralizing, you honestly should stop and reconsider your priorities. I say that without any kind of sarcasm or criticism in my voice. If the people you want to help believe that the thing you're making will cause problems for them, that's a red flag. It's not always true, and it might not be true for all users, but it's something to seriously consider.

If people are worried that your product will appear to be a scam, you absolutely need to reconsider.
Counter view: I only work in the field because it's the only way in tech to pay rent where I live. I actually hate it, it's of zero value to society and frankly the trading/business side are real assholes under pressure
Have you tried DirecTV Now? It's actually quite nice. My "cable box" is a Fire Stick. I can watch all the channels I subscribed to on my TV this way, on my laptop or phone. I pay $35 and they include HBO.
Unless you can pay taxes in Bitcoin, people will always need to be able to convert Bitcoin to fiat.

Bitcoin itself cannot be stopped, but it's utility as a currency (or, as it is now, a speculative investment) can be.
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> ... the E and G of the C major chord are prominent overtones of the note.

depends on the instrument. A pure sine wave at the frequency of C does not have any overtone.
The best resource I have come across is the Wikipedia page. It's comprehensive and concise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_calculus
Sorry for not being clear, I was agreeing and expanding on the pros of that approach.
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Some of these people would've called it quits a long time ago though, if not for the ability of their offspring to have it (much) better than they do. Nothing wrong with that.

Some people are born with above average intelligence, or above average physical skills. Nothing wrong with that either.

Why shouldn't people be allowed to inherit significant fortunes?
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Great job and lots of work, but i dont think it will take of. Its an other language to learn.
Can't upvote this enough. In my experience, if you have the capacity for the occasional obsessive voracious burst of knowledge acquisition, there's no limit to the amount of technology cycles you'll be able to surf, and you'll always be able to sell your expertise and get good work. I feel bad for the calmer more balanced people who don't have that manic streak, who leave work at work, they'll always be at a disadvantage.
Why was this flag killed?
It's not cmake's job to limit the behaviour of programs written with it.
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It turned to be more complicated than this. Killer whale is not one species, is a species complex. Some are more vicious than other. We still don't know lots of things about cetaceans.
Usually, "learn" implies that a behavior is acquired through non-genetic means. And orcas have indeed been observed transmitting behaviors through non-genetic means.
I don't think they need to show images right now at the top. For many search results they aren't even that great (it's just featured images from blogs). This would speed-up the site, too.

Also, I don't understand why the searches only show up for 1/3 of the screen. Is it because they plan to show big ads on the right? Still 2/3 of the screen for that seems excessive.
Sorry about the title butchery, it was 9 characters too long.
recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631473 (12 days ago)
"In Japanese for example, it is basically completely impossible to even begin to predict how to write a word if all you know is its pronunciation"

Do you mean using the Kanji characters, or is there something else (other than the silent "u" that hides) that would trip you up when trying to write something in the hiragana or katakana letters?
Some people just want to stay home and watch movies and live a tranquil life while others don't feel good if they aren't permanently moving and discovering the world.
> I mean if I have a REVENUE of $10 million annually I would have savings of more than $400k dollar?!

You might perhaps google the difference between "revenue" and "net income".

> Also amazon actually suspended his account for infridgement cases and I highly doubt that their system is so bad that it does that automatically.

Have you missed the last several years of tech news?
There's a lite version for that:

https://lite.qwant.com/
Totally agree on the heavyweight problem of the default version. But you can go to the lite version: https://lite.qwant.com/
> Stories like this are just clickbait for "hate the rich" readers.

And it seems there are many. :)
The only way to have privacy in search is not to give your queries to a 3rd party i.e. you need decentralised search.

The basic principle of decentralised search is an individual only needs a tiny fraction of all knowledge available, so the solution needs to focus on indexing their interests and social connections - see http://www.mathaware.org/mam/04/essays/smallworld.html

It has been tried already. There's YaCy https://yacy.net/en/index.html but the UX is horrible ( https://yacy.net/en/Screenshots.html ) - not for the mainstream software consumer.

Then there's http://www.faroo.com/ ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAROO ) which has been ticking along since 2005 and tried to appeal to consumers but arguably aliened early adopters most by targeting Windows. They seem to have stalled otherwise ( http://www.faroo.com/hp/p2p/history.html) but it still works as a service I believe.

Lastly there's https://www.bitclave.com/ - the new kid on the block. They seem to be aligning themselves with crypto-currencies somehow - perhaps there's a path there to monetisation - see https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitclave-search-engine-taps-... and https://hackernoon.com/bitclave-the-decentralised-search-eng... - one to watch.
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Why is it better than: http://duckduckgo.com/ ?
I think you're wrong in a tiny but important point. It's not "All media organisations offer you senseless outrage and clickbait", it's "Some media organisations".
There are plenty of meaningful, in-depth, well-written articles which provide new viewpoints on topics that it's important to talk about. You just have to find mediums.
And I find it important to honor them instead of claiming "all media provides bullshit", which fuels a certain, toxic "truth is no where in media" atmosphere.
It would only work if they advertise the coin inside the movies that are produced. They have to keep driving attention towards the coin with every movie released.
This is kind of unrealistic but very easy to say. I have changed domains but that was because I wanted to move into the domain of my interest i.e. embedded and also was young and wanted to feel the breadth. After investing almost 5 years of my life in it and endless reading and doing things things in my field I am considered an expert. Now the embedded field in my country is in a steep decline and I am at a cross roads. All the so called "new" tech does not seem to entice me at this age as I can go very deep into my embedded field. On the other hand I know that if I don't jump ship I would be jobless pretty soon. This makes me very bitter in choosing CSE education as my peers in medical have way more stability in their domains than me.
It stopped being fun for me when I moved to an x86 box, I'm afraid. Though I do get my share of asm thanks to my (very slow moving) Ruby compiler project, it's more painful than fun.
> .. it's very likely you'll learn so much over your career that you will become an ineffective developer. You will know how to do things well and will have a difficult time doing things just to get them done.

And then you will learn to be pragmatic and solve technical debt only when there is enough time for it or when it brings a clear benefit in terms of business value or development speed.

I can tell this from my own experience. As a developer you typically progress along a path; in the beginning you just don't know how to do things 'well' so you're introducing technical debt without knowing it. Then you'll learn about clean code, design patterns and what not, and you think you have to apply this knowledge everywhere. Until you learn that there are times to be pragmatic as well.

This pattern is not unique to programming, it's universal. See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari
I can recommended Maxima too. It's useful for checking for obvious errors and for simplifying expressions. It can be used for more advanced stuff, but I found it has a steep learning curve.
The real inconvenient truth is that Smart Cities are by definition totalitarian. Big Brother is watching your every move. Everything you do is registered by some networked system and subject to ML analysis.

For the next 50-100 years we at least have an alternative of moving to some remote area in rural Pakistan where are no "smart" IoT technologies, and where you can still pay in cash. After that we are doomed to live in some dystopian dictatorship.
I'm actually the Datafun paper's other author, so folks can AMA if they're interested in Datafun.

It's very interesting to me to see the connections and differences here:

- Monotonicity Types and Datafun both track monotonicity, but for entirely different purposes; MT for CRDTs & distributed programming, Datafun for enforcing termination on recursive queries.

- MT uses a refinement-type-style system, while Datafun uses a modal type system. It's not clear to me whether this is related to their different use-cases, or just an accident of history.

- Relatedly, MT builds on an existing language (Lasp, which itself builds on Erlang), while Datafun is entirely new. MT is definitely more practical in this respect. My hope is that Datafun, while not practical to use directly yet, will have a big impact in the long run, as its namesake Datalog did, but that's just a dream :).

- MT and Datafun both care about semilattices: MT because CRDTs are based on semilattices, and Datafun because they give a natural and general way to comprehend over sets, and also guarantee a "bottom element" for our fixed-points to start computing from.

- Datafun has two kinds of function: monotone (preserves ordering) and discrete (could do anything). MT has five qualifiers on function arguments, representing whether the function respects the ordering, inverts the ordering, disrespects the ordering, ignores the argument entirely, or returns that argument unchanged. Wow! Are all those qualifiers really necessary? Maybe. Antitone functions (order-inverting) are something we're considering adding to Datafun, at least.
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Ask HN: How to archive online articles
Often, after reading an article online, I want to be able to archive the contents of the article for future reference or to add notes. Obviously I could just save the webpage, but I was wondering if anyone knows of a service or application that can extract the contents of a online article (ideally into a text-based format like markdown).
Tesla is 'going out of business,' says former GM exec Bob Lutz
Maybe in Switzerland - but not in Germany / Austria. If there are so many companies that do this, please tell me :)
To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced smart city is indistinguishable from prison.
What the article skipped over is that your TV will require an internet connection to watch broadcast channels. This proposal is terrible for freedom, consumer cost and privacy.

Also, it's a stupid reason to get every American to throw out their TV AGAIN (digital tv transition being first) to give the consumer electronics industry a revenue boost.

The industry has run out of features consumers will pay for (3-D tv, screen size, 4K, HDR) during a significant market maturity price erosion - taking 65" TVs from $2,500 down to $1,000 well equiped in only a few years. To reset the pricing scheme, they get the FCC to create a new mandatory feature so they can reset the pricing and sell millions of devices needlessly.
Well, he would say that, wouldn't he.
The other columns are for "News" and "Social" search results. Try searching for Elon Musk, it should fill the entire screen with results.
I can see that x' means $x^T$ (x transposed) but it's not mentioned in the documentation — where does this notation come from?
SymPy does not take Latex as input, but it has
symbolic equivalence checkers.

Methods are highly heuristic, and some languages
(all expressions with,say, \pi, and exp function, or something similar) are in general undecidable.
In France they have an ad campaign running on mainstream French TV channels at peak time [1], playing on the fact that search engines know everything about you from your age, family members, food preferences to who you talk to on dating websites as a married man.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evahh1PXJIg
> Not being sick after a year is a measurable change, that is unlikely to be placebo.

Is it? The entire point of a placebo is that it does lead to measurable change that can be very significant.

> The change is real, even if it would be caused by something else.

... such as a placebo effect. Placebo can lead to real, significant change. To the extent that there has been serious discussion about harnessing the placebo effect (the primary issue being the ethics of lying to a patient).

> But, my primary point was meant to be that the results of the study don't imply placebo, through many comments here throw it around a lot. (I am not sure what kind of effect they would want to see through.)

The study doesn't imply placebo, but the issue is whether or not it rules it out. Part of the problem here is that designing a good placebo for cold showers is not straightforward. You could try to convince people of the positive health benefits of cold showers and try to convince a different group of the positive health benefits of a pill, but you'd still then not have blinded study, and you'd have a hard time demonstrating that any difference in effect isn't simply down to people finding the cold showers more convincing.

Note that this is not saying you shouldn't do cold showers if it works for you. If it works for you, it doesn't matter if it's a placebo effect or not. The issue of whether or not it is a placebo is more about mechanism. In other words: Is it actually something about the showers? Or is it something about the way you were convinced to think the showers had an effect? It matters because it may affect how this treatment works for others, and how consistently it works, and because a placebo mediated effect can change over time as cultural expectations change (e.g. placebo effect of sugar pills have gone up as people have become accustomed to using pills to solve medical problems).

But if the effect is there for you, that ought to be secondary to you. If it works without causing any harm, then awesome.
maybe nullupdates should be a thing.
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Depends on from where you look :)

It is stdout for the previous process in the pipeline and stdin for the tosheets itself.

EDIT: Tosheets -> tosheets
Archive.is works pretty well:

http://archive.is/

(or at least, it does in non Firefox browsers. Seems uBlock and this site are conflicting at the moment).

You can also do the same thing with the Internet Archive itself:

https://archive.org/web/

Just enter the link into the lower right text box, and click 'save page'.

There are others too, as well as tools you can download to locally save articles (or whole websites) for future reference.
You are most likely right, but it is still kind of a niche. If you take a look at curriculum of Computer Science studies it is pretty non-present. From what I know Exterior / Geometric Algebra is superior in many ways to Linear Algebra: first it is backwards compatible and second (apparently) it is much more intuitive. But still Linear Algebra is pretty standard.
> bygones be bygones

It is a crime. Period. As with any crime statutes of limitations should apply, but they should be that. Not "bygones because someone who got lucky feels pity for him".

And you got lucky. As you demonstrate, to him these things are only dim memories. For people who got it bad they're scars they carry for their rest of their life and feel vividly every single day.
Big Data stack (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka etc.)
Yup. It's kind of the only place that in Europe that pays Bay Area salaries ("8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... - most of the things in this three year old post are still valid)
Matlab/octave
Thought Africa would be a more keen on Cryptocurrencies :/
So they don't refurbish the liquid fuel engines?
The UI doesn't seem to have been tested, and isn't usable. On my iPhone in safari, when I tap on the search box it JavaScript-scrolls out of view, revealing a picture of a football field that plays a video if clicked accidentally. Once it even played without being clicked. This also happens on the results page, except here it disappears under a very irritating 1/6 screen "download our app" nag bar.
This really does sound like FUD to my ears.
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To be the contrarian on the subject: this is also already the case with machinery. If the company i bought the water heater from goes bankrupt, there's no way to get spareparts and i have to replace the thing once one plastic nubbin breaks. Not much different if there's no one there to patch its openssl version.
Well why not say append only?
Trump isn't "reprehensible", his actions are literally killing people.

People who agree with Trump either directly condone the deaths of people, or are so ignorant that nothing they could say would be valuable.

Trying to portray it as "opposing political opinions" is a laughable insult to people for whom it's a matter of survival.
All TVs are smart now. Fortunately, you can now buy TV-sized monitors. They're usually sold as a "commercial monitor" or a "digital signage display".
There’s been congressional hearings. My favourite line was someone saying to a Facebook representative “US Election ads were paid for in Rubles and that didn’t send up any flags?” (I paraphrase)

The CIA has also published its own conclusions on Russian interference in the election.
Since when has masturbating in front of someone been a "mating strategy"? (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/louis-ck-accused-mast...)

Sexual harassment seems distinctly human to me. It generally occurs in the context of asymmetries of power and wealth.
> The new standard would also let broadcasters activate a TV set that is turned off to send emergency alerts.

Just what the world needs: the resurrection of Max Headroom.