skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Destroying the paid market for a minimum standard of existence is the whole rassafrassin' point!

Except those paid markets are critical for finding and creating the efficiencies that allow us to raise everyone's standard of living. We need to balance the trade relationships, but we need to do it with without destroying these markets. Indeed, balancing the trade relationship means increasing the number of choices available to the already-disadvantaged parties, which will increase the average total benefit of each trade and increase the efficiency of the overall market.

> It's the freemium model applied to national economies, and the market for smartphone apps suggests that it would work fine.

The freemium model works because there is COMPETITION among app creators to provide the correct combination of things for free that incentivized people to play so they will want to pay for more.

Relying on a bureaucracy to figure what what the "bare minimum" should be is ineffective and inefficient. There is no one set of "bare minimum" needed by everybody and trying to create a bureaucratic system to calculate the needs of the individual is enormously hard and prone to corruptions and abuse. Some people grow much of their own food and don't need assistance with that. Some people are perfectly happy living on rice and beans but want to buy lots of books. Some people have high metabolisms or expensive dietary restrictions. Some people want to live out of a van and don't need subsidized housing. Some people need to live in big cities with high property values for work. The people who have the best information as to what their "bare minimum" is are... themselves.

"Taxes in-kind" are still not communism (and they sound enormously difficult to implement, there are important reasons we use currency rather than barter). Not really sure what the point of that digression was.
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Things can be designed with large enough safety margins that "unlikely but possible" is effectively "never going to happen." If it's unlikely enough, you're up in "electrons could quantum tunnel through the insulation and electrocute someone" territory. It could happen, but I'm pretty comfortable assuming that it won't.

For an example in a similar vein, power grids send electricity around at voltages that are well outside what the wiring in your house (or anything plugged into it) is designed to handle. The primary side of a distribution transformer (the cylinders you see on utility poles) is something like 13,000-25,000 volts. I've never heard of that getting shorted into the secondary side with 25 kV being put into the residential power system.

If you look at the teardown/comparison between genuine and counterfeit power supplies (linked in other comment), I'd absolutely believe that with a large number of those adapters in use it would eventually kill someone. The high voltage side is poorly isolated and they went so far as including a fake grounding pin that isn't even connected to ground. But a well designed switching power supply is designed to not kill you.

It's scary to think that some people have these counterfeits and don't realize it's not a genuine power cord. That's the real risk here that needs to be dealt with.
Hybrid models are changing the piano market, too
4. Moistener [$31/month]

5. Squirter [$63/month]

6. Gusher [$127/month]
its a signal that the capital markets are out of balance as far as other assets to invest in
Fisker patents claims it can power a car for 500 miles and recharge in a minute
Really?

Bitcoin has name recognition with the general public. Full stop.

Whatever the technical advantages/disadvantages are between those two (and any others) I imagine only Bitcoin has enough demand for them to think it would be worthwhile to implement.
Also,

We only hire devs who can traverse a tree with their eyes clsoed.

Why? Is that what your devs do in day to day job?

No, our devs add buttons and pass values from one module to another.
Whenever people ask for fullstack do-it-all seniors with part time devops responsibilities, I assume that means "We have no idea how to create or manage a functioning technical team, and instead want a tech-wish granting genie."

You don't need 10 rockstar ninja genius senior engineers. You need five devs, three Ops, one PM, and an intern. Ideally you can divide it up further where certain devs are more back-end and others front-end, one dev is more of a database pro, one ops is metrics focused etc...

Then you have to manage this team of people. Which means solving difficult trade-offs, mediating disputes, finding gaps, removing obstacles, etc...
>if it were correct all businesses would always strive to buy their real estate as soon as they could afford

Unlike people, businesses do not reach a certain age then lose their capacity to earn (retire). A business can carry the cost of their leases as an operating expense, where individuals who do this will hit a roadblock when they retire as their operational funding is no longer able to cover the cost of rent.

There are of course exceptions for particularly high earners who manage to build up sufficient funds to be able to perpetually rent, even sometimes without drawing down on their principle savings. But this is far from attainable for most.

So equating the two is not valid.
IBM: Copper Interconnects Here to Stay
>you aren't dealing with economic issues such as inflation. For example, read about Mansa Musa, who gave away so much gold in his pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1300s that he caused devaluation of money

This is why a UBI should be resource based, rather than money based.
Wow, those are way cheaper than I expected. Thanks for the link.
Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#
Why You Will One Day Have a Brain Computer Interface
iron solomon, diz, pat stay, qp, qleen paper (other qp) etc.. grind time kotd smack
No such assumptions are made in the axioms of VNM-rationality[1] or any other model of rationality of which I am aware. If it is not rational to live near people you like it is difficult to see why it would be pay more for a house with any other luxury.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann–Morgenstern_utilit...
Any chance of talking the UE4 teams into requiring VSCode as a minimum instead of VS?

Me and my colleagues are going to play with Live Share ASAP.
I would have advised you to consider more carefully what you are optimizing for and why.

Financial services have a role in a society where we measure value using money - at a minimum we at least need to maintain systems to do all of the accounting.

However, as the amount of energy / labor that we spend as a group focusing on one set of problems increases, we are left with a decreasing amount to solve all of the rest of the society’s problems.

If everyone is a banker, who will grow our food and build our houses?

I strongly disagree with your premise that all majors outside of finance “just teach you how to spend money”. Every area of study provides you with knowledge that you can use to solve real problems that we collectively face.

“Do what you love” is idealistic advice that does not take into consideration the realities of a system which makes it extremely difficult to survive let alone thrive without money, but money should be a means, not an end.
> For Bitcoin to succeed, it needs to conquer the US market adoption

Genuinely: Why is that axiomatic?

Why is there no path that is, reductively, in parts of the world where electronic payments are already normal, bitcoin becomes the instrument?
Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?
I haven't used FF in years but I've been so impressed with 57 that I've finally come home. I'm wondering if I'm alone. If you switched, please let us know why you decided to switch.
What do you think was learned? I was a member for a few years, but don't feel like I have an understanding of the economics.
It's not going to trigger a housing crisis what-so-ever.

~97.5% of all home owners will remain unaffected by that cap at $500,000.

"approximately 2.5 percent of Americans are paying mortgages on homes valued at $500,000 or more."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/03/how-m...

88% of the benefit of the state income tax subsidization goes to people making over six figures.

"The state and local tax deduction disproportionately benefits high-income taxpayers, with more than 88 percent of the benefit flowing to those with incomes in excess of $100,000."

https://taxfoundation.org/press-release/benefits-state-local...

You're taking issue with taxes going up on people that are doing quite well, in other words.

Further, the stock options taxation policy has been removed from the Senate legislation and has zero chance of becoming law.

The 20% corporate income tax rate will benefit the majority of small businesses.
Not to mention Anne Mcaffery’s Dragon Rider of Pern books. I’ve heard GRRM does a lot of food porn in his fire and ice series, but have never read those books.
http://cityobservatory.org/the-origins-of-the-housing-crisis...
A major reason why housing supply is so inelastic today is that zoning has become much more restrictive in the last two generations.
> a society where tolerating an insult broadcasts that you can be taken advantage of, with no repercussions.

Do you not think this is part of the constellation of social ills of honor killings?
I'm staying with my 2014 MacBook Pro 15", trying to weather the storm. Perhaps I'll be able to wait out the current "Jony Ive running rampant and unchecked" period. Perhaps next year somebody at Apple will finally speak up and say "no". Perhaps next year we will have a split between "Pro" laptops (with useful ports, useful keyboards, keys on keyboards, and without trying to achieve extreme thinness) and consumer laptops, which have an entirely different set of compromises.

Today Apple is making all its products according to one specific set of tradeoffs: external out-of-the-box form over function, thinness over everything, usability comes last. This set of tradeoffs is fine for some products, but not for every product.
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Disappointed to see zero mention of related work, and no comparison against the many other papers that do transition-based SRL, many of which can produce arbitrary output graphs.

The authors use a transformation of the PropBank data, so their numbers aren't directly comparable against the literature. That's okay --- the PropBank format itself isn't that great, and we'd like a better balance of usability and learnability. However there have been dozens of systems published against a different graph transformation of the PropBank data, e.g. the CoNLL 2008 and 2009 shared task: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/conll2009-st/#task

There should be no problem to compare these systems against the system in this paper. The unfair comparison would be to take a system that produces PropBank output, and transform its output into this format. This comparison would be unfair because the system would be optimising a different measure. A fairer comparison would be to take a system that can produce arbitrary graphs, and train it on the authors' format.

The transition system looks quite interesting, and pretty easy to try -- so I'm actually tempted to implement this and give it a go. However with no meaningful evaluation we have no way of knowing whether it outperforms the many alternatives that have been proposed, e.g. https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?year%5B%5D=2017&year%...

The accompanying paper is described as a tech report, so arguably it shouldn't be held to the same standard. But still. I'd have hoped to see more leadership from the anchor author Fernando Perreira -- who has written plenty of relevant literature on this, starting in the 80s.

The field is already very difficult to follow, even if papers are more forthcoming about how they fit into previous work. Without that, the claims in each paper become very difficult to understand. I would therefore suggest rejection of this paper if I received it for blind review.
> to me the author seemed to be going out of her way to make clear she was describing only a limited part of the country.

No, her presentation is very jumbled. Talking about ISIS on the basis of an “ex-Army friend”? Northern Albania is overwhelmingly Catholic, and that mention of Islamism results from suddenly trying to bring Kosovo and Macedonia into the article (and even then, her “ex-Army friend” is exaggerating).
Pay people to walk into stores with their phones, filming the aisles. Process that video with image recognition software to tag products and read prices. Boom you’ve got a database.
The problem with getting off this earth is the people who are good at conquering other people through politics and emotions.

Von Braun was the first to make a guided rocket (developments like the de Laval nozzle and rocket equation had just been discovered).
The US poached him and sent him to West Texas, then Alabama, without a whole lot to do. Probably to keep him out of enemy hands.
The US government had their money and "intelligence communities" lined up behind the Vanguard rocket.
It was only because the Vanguard rocket failed so embarassingly while the Soviets won the space race that Eisenhower started NASA and gave Von Braun some funding.
So Von Braun wrote a letter to Kennedy, and he got his childhood wish to go to the moon. And he did it. The greatest engineering and technological achievement in history.
All the politics (like cost-plus suppliers) still hurt the program, but they really made a lot of progress.
So then the new NASA bureaucracy pushed him out and went on to do bureaucratic things like build the ridiculously badly conceived STS (they proposed ideas and Nixon picked it), and crash it even when NASA engineers told them before hand that a foam strike was going to happen as was the case with the Challenger Groupthink disaster.

The Soviets also had plenty of childish and embarassing dramas and politics of their own going on as well.

It's all a shame, really. People can do amazing things, but I'm not willing to pretend our shortcomings aren't because of moral failings.

There is no legitimately good reason for the Challenger disaster, or having to rely on Russians for their superior rocket tech to get into orbit.
I dunno, I was accutely aware that as I prepared to find a new job by updating my resume, updating my LinkedIn profile and contact list for the first time in years, etc., that it would be very obvious to anyone watching what I was doing. I correctly assumed my employer wasn’t watching (which would have made things potentially uncomfortable for me), but with tools like this it becomes so low effort to watch for this stuff that they can afford to do it.

No, not everyone is like me and ignores LinkedIn while actively and happily employed, but I imagine enough people are and that it’s not so hard to build models of other user types that work as advertised (as long as they have access to the public data).

HiQ is a threat to LinkedIn on two fronts: as a direct competitor and as a reason for some people to opt out of using the service (though it appears LinkedIn offers similar services, so perhaps the threat is more the Streisand effect at work). That doesn’t mean HiQ should be locked out of the data of course, but it makes for an interesting and complicated situation.
This. Vim also has a nasty habit of hanging completely if something goes wrong at the filesystem level (e.g. a disconnected sshfs mount).
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

Chrome on iOS is a unique situation.

We offer two things for developers that integrate with 1Password:

1. Native application integration. The idea here is that apps that offer a login to their service/site can pull the username and password from 1Password, then insert it into their native UI controls and sign the user in

2. Web view integration. The idea here is that the developer pass us the web view as part of the process and we handle the filling.

Chrome is using option #1, so what they do is give us the URL, we provide the list of Login items, and then they take the username and password and provide the filling. For the filling parts we have absolutely no control over this in Chrome. Any filling related bugs are completely on Chrome to fix. If they used our web view filling option you'd have consistently the same filling behavior as 1Password does in Safari on iOS.

Sorry you had this experience though. Unfortunately we can't really do anything about it except say we understand your pain. We spent a lot of time and effort getting our filling systems to work as well as they possibly can and when users report issues in Chrome we have to send them off to Google to report those and get them fixed.

Kyle

AgileBits
I mostly agree... but then there is the aspect of this that can be quiet inspiring to help us imagine what it might be like... a perhaps inspire us to get the real picture.
bitcoin = fluctuation = jumps up and down

prices = inflation = jumps up and up
There was also the Toledo School of Translators in the city of Toledo whose translations of Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew texts in the 12th and 13th centuries were influential in bringing that knowledge into European universities. Toledo, at this time, was extremely cosmopolitan by that era's standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_School_of_Translators
That's not the parent's point. If I buy a $1M home in CA 10 years ago and I pay 1% in taxes then and the house is worth $2M 10 years later, I don't get charged 1% of $2M after 10 years. I get charged a marginal increase ever year and this increase isn't based on market norms (I forget what the actual # is, but it would be like paying 1% of $1.25M). This means, if I sell my $2M house after 10 years), and buy another $2M house next door, my taxes are way higher in my second home due to prop 13.
stampede of justice troopers coming to tell me that $1,000 of emergency funds is too much

The first search result I got back says that median retirement savings are <$500 for youngish people.

That $1k is only "small" for us rich folk.
> and lots of older X classics that are unlikely to be updated.

https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled
our main app and extension work with Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge.

Password X in particular is new approach and its first iteration works in Chrome only. Which doesn't mean it will not work in other browsers as well in later versions.
Probably, but the last time I really cared about load times enough that interlacing or progressive downloading was an issue would have been back in the early 90s on dialup and well before progressive JPEG was even a thing.

IIRC, watching a JPEG paint on a 386/25 or maybe an early 486 was something that could likely be measured in full seconds or tens of seconds, not tenths of seconds.
Neither juniors, nor those experienced. Recruitment gatekeepers want always something else. Imagine a situation in which you release all your tech workforce and try to rehire, would they get the job? Might be eye opening.
Nice work! This looks really awesome, and is another great example of the passion around better collaboration tools for developers. Thanks for sharing this.

With Live Share, we're also looking to extend the collaboration experience beyond real-time editing, and into collaborative debugging, and more, as we continue to learn from the ecosystem what is needed to continue improving team cohesion, regardless of the app scenario/issue at hand.
In that vein, the Atari Transputer with OCaam as its language was the ultimate alternative computing platform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation
Building a space elevator involves getting a substantial amount of stuff into orbit, i.e. the cable and counterweight, so this sounds a bit like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

Maybe you could launch materials and construction robots for an elevator using a mass driver then use the elevator for passengers, I dunno. Still need some non-rocket way to get things up there.
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There Are Only Four Emotions (2014)
If you go to all the trouble to get out of one gravity well, what's the point of anchoring yourself?
As a long-time happy customer of 1Password I have quite a bit of a problem with them pushing their new hosted product. If you want to offer that as an alternative by all means do but don't make it the only long-term option.

I would have no problem with paying a monthly fee or paying for every major version (as I have done in the past when applicable) but I think for this use case being able to choose where to host your data - or to not host it at all - is much more justified than it arguably already is with SaaS products in other areas.

1Password certainly know their cryptography but do they also know how to secure servers and networks? I must say I trust Apple or Dropbox a lot more on this matter.

In general, the tendency to build and provide every aspect of a service is bothering me. Otherwise known as the Not-invented-here syndrome, which we largely thought to have overcome with the Internet and the age of hosted software, particularly Web 2.0 kind of SaaS offerings, this development amounts to tight coupling and agglomeration of features that are secondary to the benefit of the actual product at hand:

Why does every application apparently have to provide these features:

- file hosting and serving

- calendaring and event notification

- messaging

- PDF export

- and most famously: Email ("Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.")

Why is it so hard to provide just the core features of your product and use other products and services by providers specialising in those to implement ancillary features required for building a product or service?

We still have to go a long way in terms of connecting with and building upon other services, one particularly preposterous example of which I recently encountered with a supply chain management process where a company used two perfectly fine - if slightly aging - applications to keep track of different but related data sets. In order to exchange data between these applications a PDF containing the relevant data is exported from application A, sent via email and finally manually entered into application B again.

The waste created by processes like this never ceases to amaze me.
HPE Launches ARM-Based Apollo System for HPC, AI
Totally, but if you are wanting something of more value than yes there is a price to pay for that.
Like everything else, depends on your use-case. I have personally used TF-IDF vectors and token sets with Cosine and Jaccard distances in practice.

Some examples of use-cases: are you searching for "semantically similar", or "near duplicate"? You can compare documents under different metrics and different _representations_. Some representations are: LSA, PLSA, LDA, TF-IDF, and Set representations, along with metrics such as Jaccard Distance, Cosine Distance, Euclidean distance, etc.

Doc2vec is the Word2vec analog for documents.
For me, it is both about the business model and the move to a hosted service. I’m against renting tools. I will gladly buy them, and I will buy frequent-ish updates (18-24 months). I'm not cheap. I simply value ownership of both the software and my data. I have bought five 1Password licenses for myself and my immediate family; a roughly ~$300-$320 investment. Toss on another $50 for iOS licenses and you have roughly six years of subscription revenue. So, if six years of subs is goodwill that doesn’t matter, that is fine.