skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk is unavoidable, but we have weigh the long term risk. Blue chip stocks are great for long-term but very low return and probably don’t worth anything....

The problem with the mortage crisis in 2008 has to do with bad credit. If you save money and have a steady income, go head. Right now is still a good time as interest rate is still low (I went from variable to fixed after building enough credit). The risk is people buy a house when they can barely afford one or can’t even afford one at all. Ask family to help contribute for your first buy, and pay back. I never get the “buy alone, never bother family” thing.

Disclaimer: my parents did buy the house and I refinanced the house so I paid back. That being said I have a mortage (3k) monthly for 20 years at 4.25%. If I can’t pay back I still have to sell the house or the bank will take away, so doesn’t matter if my parents did buy the house in full initially. The risk is the same, but the money is well-spebt if you start saving now.

As far as gold, you can buy gold and save them. Perhaps this is a Chinese thing. We buy gold from stores and keep them in a safe, we don’t buy virtual golds at all knowing we don’t really own anything. The point is sell them when you can, either at high or when you really need thr cash. Remember physical is better than paper bills. Coin itself is worth more than a piece of paper. This is why I believe owning a car is far better in the long run. My dad bought one for $8000 SUV and it last about 10 years before he decided to get a new one. That old car about 15 years old was sold for $3000. Good deal!

There is a Chinese saying: we work to buy a brick. Because a brick can be reused, but a piece of contract can’t. This is so evident in NYC as Chinese immigrants own so many apartments/houses, and they rent them out to make $$. I also rent out my second floor to help pay back my mortage...

I know all the above can’t apply to everyone, espeically for those who live in expensive areas like SV (which is why I avoid working there). But look around, there must be a way for you to save money.... just review your monthly spend. Cancel a service you rarely or don’t use anymore... $100 save every month means $1200 a year.
they're big enough that they can justify what appear to be random experiments...although they risk getting tarred with the same brush as Google when they shut them down
I really like the wikipedia model, but I know it wouldnt work for every outlet. I’ve contributed more to public radio and wikipedia than any other news service subscription.

Ideally, nytimes/wapo/economist would be completely open, and one would be able to ‘donate’ with a single press of the apple pay button.

I prefer that over yet another username password combo + subscription + app echo system I need to maintain.

Or best of both worlds: single click of apple pay button sets a cookie for 30 days of access; sends a courtesy reactivation email with a link in case you clear your cookies.
This is true.

It's also true that most people tell themselves that very thing to justify buying dumb shit.
Looks like a fun bird course :)
Any game is a PR stunt, difficulty does not matter. It's not about how hard it is to solve, but on how many places you can apply them.
Today people are using the SDK directly or injecting secrets via the CLI. Multi-language support and integration with e.g. Kubernetes is high on the wish list. The approach we are looking at for multi-language support is to drop the dependency on the AWS Encryption SDK. Creating a read-only SDK in other languages is then straight forward.
I'm on the team that develops the Aureus3Dv facial recognition platform. We have clients using FR for all kinds of purposes, primarily knowledge of known people's presence in a given location, or knowledge of an unknown person in a given location. These situations are typically for automated doorways, identification (or non-identification) of people in retail / hospitality / secure scenarios. Typically it is about two things: safety of the people and assets at the location, and knowledge of the composition of traffic. For small organizations, like an art gallery, the adoption of FR is triggered by theft. For medium sized orgs, the adoption of FR is often safety of staff and security of assets. For large organizations, it is all of the previous plus hospitality / retail knowledge of who is in their spaces.
Can you explain the bottom chart?
2y,3y,9m and in five days 1y in the current one. And I want to move to something else.
I went to college before laptops as well. Taking notes has two purposes. First to remember what was said in class, extras that are not in the book, and it's a good indicator of the exam questions. Second is processing what is said. Research has shown that writing down what you hear makes you better understand and remember what is said, then when you type it on your laptop.

Even if you don't use the notes afterward, they are still useful. Video is a very useful method, but then the video has to be edited, or do you get three simultaneous streams, one of the professor, the board and the powerpoint? Videos like on Udemy are made for the medium. Class is not made for video, and I wonder how productive those videos are.

And when you go to class, do you really go home and see the whole class on video once again? That's way too time consuming. The notes are a good summary, much faster. Yes and it is taking effort, exactly what is needed. It puts your mind to work.
AT&T was forced by the government to invest massively in Unix? That does not fit with what I have heard about its origins, which was as a shoestring project of Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, and a few other collaborators [1]. If anything, the government prevented AT&T from following up on the initial development, as part of its anti-trust measures that allowed AT&T a telephone monopoly while preventing it from expanding into computing and related technologies.

The article you link to may describe the current state of affairs, but it does not properly characterize the state of affairs in the 1950s and beyond, when many major technology corporations had research laboratories. While their activities were nominally directed towards future products and profitability, in practice this was interpreted quite freely, leading to things like Unix, as well as scientific work.

[1]http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch02s01.html
I'd like to learn more about the gait recognition research. Do you have any links or references?
Thanks, your project looks useful

Here are some questions:

Are you using Strongbox in production?

The backup is mentioned, but how exactly do you backup?

Thanks
Question for HN: do you recommend any book for personal finance?
Amazon staff blast 'intolerable' conditions
I've had a very strange experience: the act of taking notes helps, but having the notes isn't worth a damn.

I do benefit from note-taking, and I benefit more from pen-and-paper than typing. But looking back at my notes is rarely useful, and consistently worse than textbooks, lecture videos, or almost anything else. So I do the whole project just to boost my retention a little bit, and study from other sources.
> in that case, the publishers ended up being able to hold the line fairly effectively.

By effectively you mean steadily declining sales as people return to printed books.
Worth pointing out that all of those products feature writing functionality. And the non-Sony ones come from small startups that likely don't benefit from economies of scale.
I came here to say this. Knowing the difference between an investment and a gamble is my most important rule in money management. There is nothing wrong with gambling-just know when and to what extent you are doing it.
NYT and The Guardian are not "left-wing". They are establishment liberal and have supported every major war the US has been involved in. They regularly slander anti-establishment and left-wing intellectuals[1][2] and for the most part hate or ignore people like Corbyn and Sanders.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-c...
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10 years of nanotechnology research in South Africa
On the bright side if you did electrical engineering and math in uni then you probably know a lot about matrix math and numerical and iterative approaches to solving equations that do not have elementary solutions. You might be able to apply those to graphics programming or data science.
that's the point. we're the planet's disease.
Getting Started with Grafana and Influxdb for Home Assistant
I sometimes feel like there isn't much alternative to The Guardian - on the other hand the opinion pieces are often wearisome and at times the whole thing starts to feel like a parody of itself. It is as if, in becoming "worthy" of "support" it has to crank itself up to an insane degree...just as sugary drinks become more sugary over time to retain their core drinkers.

This is especially noticeable when ludicrous lifestyle pieces sit cheek-by-jowl with slightly overwrought culture wars content. I can't find an example today so I'll make one up:

- Is enjoying the movie Chinatown an act of molestation?

- Why Colombian hemp chocolate makes for the best edible luggage

I mean I both think Polanski should be in jail and that Colombia tourism should be encouraged...but this stuff isn't news.
I have a sidecar pod in kubernetes that runs "kubectl proxy" so the image just has the kubectl binary.
I rolled my eyes so hard at this misrepresentation that I think I injured myself.

Your point is not well-made. The Guardian is a soft-left newspaper, objectively so, and while it might not be a flag-waving neo-Pravda it’s anything but a paper for classical liberals.
This is true for much of Europe I believe. Case in point: myself.

Being Deaf I didn't manage University in the nineties. However I have been lucky to get a second chance at the University of Applied Sciences to graduate as an engineer, a Dipl. Ing. FH 2006. And now, 2017, I graduated as a legal, a Bachelor of Law, too, and could do this part-time.

So it seems at the age of 19 it is perhaps wise not to attend university yet. So young you still don't know what you do the best.
For those not familiar with 80s music, the song being parodied is Tiffany's "I think we're alone now." Original music video from 1987 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Q3mHyzn78
> African Americans have had western cultural innovation on lock-down for at least the past 100 years

What does this mean? I don't understand what "lock down" means (I'm British).
> My original point was that code that's hard to test is often hard to refactor

I agree with that. The poster I was replying to said somewhat the opposite. He said:

> Making that code unit testable would have complicated it, thus lowering its maintainability

My basic point was that less complicated doesn't mean maintainable. There's no perfect design in the face of future changes in requirements. So the most important quality of the code we write today is the ability to refactor it and know that it still satisfies all the initial requirements that haven't changed. Unit tests give you that property, lack of complexity doesn't. Simple code can be better than complex, but it's a secondary concern to a comprehensive test suite. I'll take a full test suite over code quality any day because it allows me to go in and add the quality later without fear of breaking things.

I guess I misspoke when I said "how the application is structured" since it you've interpreted it differently than I meant it. It was a reference to the line I quoted above...that complicating code lowers it's maintainability. I just meant that complexity and tested are separate concerns and that tests more so than simplicity make code maintainable. So I think we agree more than we disagree.
It would still exist, but split into two blockchains. They would diverge, effectively becoming two completely different things, with different values. What kind of asset you have would depend on what network you are connected to.

This situation already exists for gold: gold (the physical stuff) in China and in the EU are loosely coupled: try to move your gold bar around.
Solid advice. I've been in this business 25 years (also didn't finish college!), and for folks just getting into software development, this is the article that will be recommended reading.

Sidenote: I was surprised by the absence of a Github reference in the article. I like to follow influential devs on Github.
It's naive to think they all were protecting people like that.
Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM extend GPLv3 cure provisions to GPLv2 code
Is she a blue collar programmer?
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C Programming Cheat Sheet
Tools aren't a zero sum game, go make your thing ;)
Imagine the problems they will encounter with software that can't do non-BMP [pdf]
Bleeding straight into your underwear is a thing
Gravitational Teleport is frequently used for SSH behind the firewall as well, but also tackles many other aspects of SSH for organizations.

It's Open source!
https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
https://gravitational.com/teleport/

Disclaimer: I am employed by gravitational
I'm shocked that there's an entire mini industry of sorts of pictures of younger woman posing in front of Javascript code. Not just a casual picture but with what looks like a carefully composed photograph.
You can run these notebooks for free in the cloud (on MyBinder.org provided by the Jupyter team). Just head there: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/norvig/pytudes/master You may need to `pip install numpy`. Watch out images are ephemeral.
I'm under the impression that it works like this: I make $100,000 this year, donate $20,000 to charity, pay taxes on $80,000 in income. Is this not accurate? My understanding is that it can save you money if you're just over the bottom end of a tax bracket. Not sure if that applies to corporations too.
If you enjoy problem solving, coding is easier than math, I wouldn't be worried about that. Also it's easy to get programming job with math / EE degree (just ask any friend of yours to give a reference).

Being stressed is a much bigger problem than being a few years at academy (which is I think still a great thing, as long as it helps problem solving skills). Health is exponentially getting worse as you get older, which means that you don't feel the damage that you do to yourself under 30.
Gambling does have benefits for some people.
Just a word of caution.

I see people in FB advocating against college and academic knowledge in general. (E.g. Einstein flunk math(not true), Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish College, etc.)

Sure, If you are really, really smart like Gates, Zuckerberg, or Micheal Dell and you have a killer idea. Don't waste your time in college. But for most moderately smart people college is the best choice.

Also if high school was too hard for you, and you don't like school any way, don't waste your time in college and learn a trade.

This woman seems very mature and motivated. She is growing without going to college. So it may be the right choice for her. But it will not be the right choice for most people.
This looks to be targeting enterprise-style VR products rather than games. Sales training in VR, etc. Lumberyard is their game engine
The idea that we can't use laptops in meetings is outdated. You can do active listening while taking notes, as long as you practice good note-taking instead of verbatim transcription. I typically use a concept-mapping tool such as CMapTools from the great folks at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Florida. That lets me capture the essential concepts from the meeting and the relations among those concepts.
I'm glad we have people in positions of power that can separate their emotions from the difficult decisions of governing.

This isn't a plan that was enacted.
For me it's the other way around. I pay for the Guardian because I think they do important, much needed journalism in many areas - including ones I'm not personally interested in. I like the idea that my money helps pay for articles that wouldn't get funded if it depended on a popularity contest.
Right, which is why the asteroid mining discussion is interesting — there are minerals in asteroids that have significant value, and if you could get the cost of access to space low enough, it might make economic sense to go get them. I'm skeptical that the economics of asteroid mining are going to close in the next fifty years, but there is at least a coherent argument for it.

But the moon is just a big rock. As far as we know, there's nothing there with any intrinsic value - the only economic value of the moon is that it's out of earth's gravity well. So if you had a sufficiently robust asteroid mining operation, or something, then basing it or staging it on the moon might make some sense. But the moon would only have secondary value in that scenario, and you have to postulate some space resource with really high primary value in order to justify being on the moon.
Actually, it is debatable how much gold does the USA hold: audits are not allowed.

Germany was recently "discouraged" of claiming their gold reserves back.
Netflix-in-a-box. Or really it's a competitor to BAMTech.
Do Laplace Transforms get very difficult? I'm taking a course right now that teaches Differential and Integral Calculus, followed by Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms. Laplace Transforms have, so far, been the least challenging portion of the course.
Checked out the reMarkable? https://remarkable.com/
What about the recent editorial condemning Taylor Swift: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/24/the-gu...
I think an important thing your average non-cs grad developer can learn from her story is the importance of networking. Maybe networking isn't the quite the correct term. But she put herself out there starting at 15, wrote and shared what she did. I'm sure she made a lot of contacts, even if only through the internet. She created an image for herself. Without that there is nothing to set you apart from everyone else in your situation. So it's not surprising that she had multiple recruiters reaching out to her during bootcamp. Good for her.
It also depends a lot on the student - personally I tend to learn faster from a mediocre textbook than an excellent lecturer. But my wife is the opposite, she retains much more from in-person lectures than videos or books.
This is idealistic and completely incorrect. You should read a history book.

Wars will end when we have limitless energy or evolve beyond greed and the lust for power.

Here's a situation I'd like you to analyse briefly: The US pulls out of every military installation they have outside of US territory. What happens in global geopolitics over the next year? Hint: the answer is 5 letters long with one space.
Indeed, here's the relevant CEO quote in the article:

> "We recognize we have to get more direct-to-consumer revenue over time, and the way we will do that is through membership-type propositions, but it’s going to be much more than a paywall. A paywall is to me an inverse loyalty scheme, where the more you consume the more you pay, which doesn’t seem to work."
If anything, things have become less complex. Nowadays, you get higher update rates, so good prediction becomes less critical - and things get simplified a lot. A lot of the complexity of the network/game engine code in Q2/Q3 and derivative games (like Warsow) was dedicated to network prediction.
Okay, I think I see what you mean now. It's a bit hard to see since you're so focused on gender bias.

I think you're right that these factors, while answering fairly objective questions, reinforce bias due to things like prior convictions. Once someone starts down this path, they get treated worse by the system based on history. Even though they did their time, they aren't starting fresh.

Still, I think it's an improvement (to a very flawed system) because it's not adding new bias. It also doesn't seem practical to reexamine previous convictions to see if they were fair when setting bail.
Doesn't look like they're intending sumerian it as a game engine at all. Looks like it's to construct enterprise products, like sales-training seminars in VR, with minimal programming.

https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/ is pretty explicit there.
EULAs in general are somewhat of a farce. Most companies use them as scare tactics but wouldn't want to risk them being scrutinized in court, especially when the only damages they could point to would be lost revenue in small-claims territory.
Isn't that the case for all industries? How many of the battery technologies currently being researched will be commercially available in the next 10 years?
It sounds more like your are mildly alcohol-dependent rather than alcoholic. Alcoholism is when your drinking negatively affects your life and those around you.

Dependency can manifest as a result of self-medication of things like depression or anxiety with alcohol, because it makes you feel good temporarily. The problem is alcohol is also a depressant and makes you feel worse afterwards, making you want to drink again.

I'm saying this because you sound a lot like me (minus the kids, and I was drinking nearly a bottle of vodka four or five nights a week). and I realised I stopped drinking to have fun and socialise and started doing it alone and heavily to self-medicate my depression and anxiety.

I've taken steps to really cut down lately and have started to explore other ways to address the problems I've had recently.

In your case though it sounds like you are self-aware enough to know maybe you are drinking too frequently (though the volume doesn't seem so bad in my opinion) and have stopped drinking for periods before.

I'd honestly say you have a mild alcohol-dependency, not alcoholism.

Alcoholics tend to not be able to stop themselves drinking, will refuse to admit they have a problem, will fail to live up to their responsibilities and even go so far as to hide their drinking from friends and family very well.

This doesn't sound like you.
Character is U+2E014 in Unicode BTW. Another link: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15114-chinese-unc.pdf
Curious, what path would they take to declare this illegal? Under current legislation I can’t think of how an internet coop funded through charity could be deemed illegal.
This is not really an internal video, it’s a video made on campus by some employees. It reflects the rudderlessness and low morale of the company at the time, as it pursued a new strategy seemingly at odds with its values led by a complete nonentity of a new CEO.
His Design of Computer programs course on Udacity is amazing.

https://in.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--c...
Only the first matters. Without it, all the others are irrelevant. With it, they are not worth optimizing because good enough is good enough.

Work with clients who 1. are happy to Pay 2. Trust you. Avoid adversarial clients. Avoid clients who indicate that they don't want to pay. Avoid projects where the value you are delivering is a multiple of your normal fee.

Good luck.
Charging $1 per secret is interesting. I wonder if that will affect how people design their application.

We've had a pretty splendid experience with Vault so far, so I'm not exactly in the market for another solution, but this looks interesting.

I assume you started development on this because Vault et al didn't exist yet at the time? Or was there another driver?