skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can argue that it should work like that, but we intentionally decided to make SEC regulation the rule, and only grant exceptions for investors who have demonstrated they can handle the risk.

We had no say in this.

The SEC unilaterally created modern day (1970s onward) accredited investor rules, although I'm sure they had their routine public comment period as if that made a difference.

The 1930s Congress and public had no idea that exemption from their protection would take shape this way.

Former accredited investor-like rules relied on financial literacy tests. These were predictable discriminatory and even the most compliant financial firms found them to be too vague. The SEC switched to the money tests to solve the lack of clarity and discrimination problems, LOL OOPS.
The normal way this goes is: Asset X has good fundamental utility/value. Investors see that, and put money in X. X goes up. That's not a bubble.

Other investors see X going up, and put money in X because it's going up. That's the start of a bubble - when people buy, not because they think the fundamentals are good, but because it's going up and they don't want to miss out. So of course X goes up more because of all the new money coming in.

The next stage comes when, because X is reliably going up, people borrow money to put in X. Now X really shoots up, because there's so much money going in. This keeps going while new money keeps coming in, but the investors are more nervous, because it's borrowed money. They're in trouble if they can't pay it back. And the more recently they invested, the more nervous they are, because they've got less room for it to fall before they owe the bank money.

This falls apart in panic selling when the price of X drops. The price drops either when nobody can believe the current price of X any more, or else when banks won't lend any more money for buying X.

So, if my understanding of bubbles is correct, and if Bitcoin is going to be a typical bubble, the relevant question is, how much of the money invested in Bitcoin is borrowed?
> I'm sure his javascript solution would be nearly as beautiful.

I really like his Python code, but I think his Lisp code from PAIP is extremely underrated. In fact, it makes me sad he switched to Python for some AI tasks (same as Goodman & Tenenbaum in http://probmods.org) given that Lisp offers a unique feature for AI: homoiconicity.

This is something that I think will make a comeback with Bayesian program learning. For a glimpse of the future, see above link.
Came here to say this, especially in the context of his Portugal argument -- sure, consumers in that context can pay less and have restricted access to a select few services.

But that's the exact anti-competitive problem -- it's effectively incentivizing non-usage of new services that'd effectively compete with the packaged ones if given a level playing field to do so. If I buy the Netflix package because all I use the Internet for is streaming movies/films, a startup that'd somehow give me that utility in a better way wouldn't be worth switching to the full/unlimited package for.
My intent wasn't to call you out, but rather to persuade you.

If you're interested, have a look at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20bookish&sort=byD... to get a sense of the reasoning.

It seems worthwhile to preserve the bookishness of HN. One of the best ways to do this is to make HN seem boring. Reading, writing, and good conversation take time and effort.

"For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question:" seems like a macroexpansion of "tl;dr:".
In the 2000s, the major providers voluntarily acted as if NN was in force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...
Fat people usually have plenty of muscles. They need them to lug the fat around.

I'm not saying you shouldn't excercise to get healthier or build some muscle but don't expect to loose weight from excercise.
> On top of that, there are articles going around like these: https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio... …listing situations that have taken place where it’s claimed that net neutrality was violated.

I wanted to take a moment to discuss these arguments honestly

And then the author doesn't address AT&T blocking Skype, Comcast blocking P2P, Telecoms blocking Google Wallet, and on and on.

This is basically an article of whataboutisms. "ISP's aren't the problem with Freedom of Speech, companies are". Ya but if a private company (Facebook, Google, etc) blocks dissenting opinions, we can simply chose to read/visit another site. That's the point. If your ISP blocks a site, you don't have the choice to get another ISP.
I mean, we need regulation because 1929.

We need regulation because regulation promotes confidence in the market which increases participation in the market.

Security regulation is among the easiest government regulation to justify from a market perspective.
If the backplane is PCIe, it'd be really hard to prevent third parties from just making their own modules. Or selling generic $10 PCIe-card enclosures.

But that's rather the point: if Apple made this thing, they'd know that, so they probably wouldn't be trying to prevent an open ecosystem of modules at all. They'd be encouraging it, since that's the whole pitch behind why it'd succeed as a "workstation" product in the first place.
Wealth is not the same thing as income, like speed is not the same thing as distance traveled.

GDP is the national income.
I see one HPC application where ThunderX 30% is faster (TeaLeaf). For the others shown, it's neck-and-neck with the Xeon. Reaching parity with Xeon is admittedly impressive even on this subset of applications, but it doesn't look consistently faster based on the information presented. I'm personally interested in how this system stacks up for quantum chemistry (GAMESS, NWChem, PySCF, Psi4...) and I hope that more benchmarks will become available soon.
I'm curious whether the research you mentioned had the people who actually grew up writing or typing. If the former, no wonder: I spent all my school years extensively taking notes, and nowadays taking a note on paper is a reflex I cannot get rid of, even despite typing way faster than writing. How feel those growing up with typing as the major way of taking notes I don't know, but am curious to learn more about any research on them.
Yes if your goal was to simply start a business on paper, you can form one online pretty quickly. But that's an incredibly naive way of looking at it.

Starting a business for many people who aren't already wealthy is a massive risk in so many ways that aren't just monetary.

For example, let's consider healthcare.

I have to think about healthcare before I plunge into starting a new business. How do I take care of myself and my family? "Then don't do it if you can't afford to take care of yourself" you say. Sure. I won't do it then. But that's one less attempt at a new enterprise in America.

In the UK, it is a different story. If I fall deathly ill, I know that at some basic human level - I will be cared for. So I can go ahead and start that business. That's one more attempt at a new enterprise in the UK.

Now tell me which is better for the world - a world which is quickly being automated at all levels.

Small businesses are one of the only remaining ways in which people can build something great for themselves while leveraging the automation in this brave new world for their benefit (think Shopify, AWS, etc).
How can you implement such a practice when our politicians and leaders are fat cats (or aspiring fat cats)? Only vote for people below a certain wealth line?
Here you go: http://magnatune.com

"We encourage you to give 3 copies of any music from your membership to your friends"
tl;dr If you have an Enum don't have the 0 value be semantically meaningful.

2nd tl;dr If sex/gender is an Enum you should have at least 4 values unspecified, female, male, other.

A few years ago I was working on a front end that talked to different scheduling software systems. Our front end had a much more nuanced way of representing sex/gender while the system that talked to scheduling systems had an older enum

Bad_Gender {
female = 0,
male = 1,
}

A bug was introduced such that no gender was set. However the field not being set meant that it's value was 0. This led to all appointments being booked as women. Even a prostate exam. Needless to say we fixed the bug quickly.
I really like the core idea here. I also like when people take big swings. This bothers me because I think it's too big of a swing though - YC is influential and Sam is singularly positioned as a 30-something to put this forward but publishing idle thoughts at this scale is firmly in the realm of fantasy.

A Senator couldn't make this happen. The President couldn't make this happen. I'm gratified to have thought about this for a moment and don't want to detract from the core idea but it is very much an idle musing. Even for someone in Sam's unique position, this is just a "Wouldn't it be nice if?" post.
At least they didn't electrocute an elephant, as folks in New York did for public spectacle. Topsy was its name.
That's what I was going to say but better and more detailed. I think most of Tumblr's core has migrated to IG, Snapchat, and some of those others I'm not hip to. I always saw Tumblr as a simplified MySpace but it had much of that same appeal
- you could customize your templates and basically turn it into a teenager's room covered with posters and crap if that's what you wanted. On mobile all that is wasted - what looks impressive on desktop gets lost on mobile. So they're going the way of MySpace now.
Still very possible:
- Rent a room for less than 1000$
- No car (use the shuttle or other yuppies way of transport)
- Don't overspend on drinking/eating

you should be able to save upto 3k a month with a 120k salary
Hilariously, without Net Neutrality, this particular article might never been seen...
This is disingenuous. The ability to stream the internet differentially is only now and in the future becoming more serious technically and organisationally. The capability is only in the past decade and in the years to come something where we have to be seriously concerned. Even then, there were serious anticompetitive breaches beforehand. See this article: https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-lies-from-yesterdays-anti-net-...:

'One of the most high-profile examples of abuse was Comcast throttling traffic to Netflix in order to extract a payment deal from the streaming video provider, which it eventually agreed to pay. And in 2012, AT&T blocked FaceTime on iPhones, claiming it was using too much bandwidth. In this case, critics argued it was an attempt to block a service that competed with its own voice services. And as the biggest ISPs keep gobbling up content-producers, like AT&T buying DirectTV and then providing free access to itscontent, the risks that ISPs will start prioritizing traffic only increase.
Well, that’s the point of schemes like UBI. Pay people off to avoid any sort of fundamental change in ownership or control.
Also, Google fiber coming into existence only benefited those in the markets where Google was threatening to enter. Everywhere else, the incumbent ISPs were content to rest on their laurels.
There are actually pretty decent webIDEs for all of those things (shareLaTeX's vim mode is pretty nice, too), and I did consider switching to a chromebook. I was actually about to buy one before I decided that the max 8GB of RAM was way too little for my usual browsing habits. That, and I'm dependent on some firefox addons that just don't have good chrome equivalents, so chromeOS is sort of a no-go.

Edit: apparently there's a sizable segment of the market that agrees with both of us!

> In the third quarter of 2016, Chromebooks made up 54% of computer shipments to K-12 classrooms in the United States, says IDC analyst Linn Huang. That market share figure even factors in iPads, which themselves have been successful in education.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3067267/how-chromebooks-aim-to-f...
>These people almost always earn more than $200,000 a year and so qualify as "accredited investors" under the SEC's definition

Actually not, because accredited investors must have cleared $200k for the two previous calendar years and most people who co-invest under the knowledgeable employees exemption are PE associates who have been on the job for less than two years.
"ISPs are not too big to compete with because Google can do it" is not a valid argument.
Next week + 1 day: your laptop is no longer supported

Which ARM SoC has mainlined drivers in Linux kernel? I fear that the ARM trend will only help to make the the e-waste mountain higher.
Let us not forget Level3 and Verizon having peering relationship issues in high use markets.... sigh
Why Britain Sucks at Product Placement
I don't want to go into too much details (for security reasons), but I am using my brokers API, the coding is done in python and everything is hosted on a few VPS in different location around the planet for redundancy...
I would recommend starting with Interactive Brokers API - it is free, small linux VPS, some data for back testing and off you go, for around $100 you can start + a lot of time of course... Start by testing any trading strategy you can fin on the net for free, they will fail, but you'll observe why and one day you will find your own edge...
How does younow compare to twitch?
Where's the code for implementing support for textarea, ace, codemirror etc ?
Today's Lack of Humility
What he says is that high inflation makes posible for real wages to adjust (without cutting nominal wages) when such an adjustment is required. The price of labor fluctuates as the price of everything else, including capital, and when there is unemployment (lower demand of labor) wages would need to go down but they are “sticky”. These are cyclical adjustments.
Some decades ago, friends of mine ran an ISP that resold bandwidth from another business. They used a leased line to the business, and every Friday evening at about 7.30 their connection dropped out.

It turned out that the cleaners at the remote end would plug their vacuum cleaner into the same circuit that was powering my friends' hardware. The power surge caused their hardware to crash, and nobody had access to properly reboot it until Monday 8.30am.
Equity is already taxed upon grant. Other stock is taxed when they decide to exercise it.

Are you proposing their equity also be taxed "at rest"? How would that work?
Let's not forget about the notorious Xbox 360 "demo":
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1686/5
This Is How You Can Short Bitcoin
Interesting, wondering what's the input. Pieces one by one or (hopefully) just a blob of dry laundry
This article appears to be written under the assumption that coinbase and other exchanges are counterparties to the price. They are not. They are market makers. It's impossible to have a run on dollar demand for BTC, because the price floats. If there are sufficient people selling, the price will simply fall, and has done so several times in the past, before recovering when equilibrium returned to the market. Exchanges are not taking loans to back the dollar value of BTC.

The author appears to lack basic understanding about how markets work in this space.
That's a good point, systems vary. That recommendation was for a 3 lecture hour per week course (there are additional tutorials, etc), and a full course load would be 4-5 courses a term. So that arithmetic gets you to 50-60hours/week in total, which is about right. With an easier course load the expectation might be 40hr/week.

The expectation is you would spend some time in formal lectures, some in tutorial sessions (usually with graduate student assistants) and some on your own - in roughly equal proportions.

I did teach some courses with more time in formal lecture (per week) and less in tutorial sessions, in which case the ratio would be adjusted to end up at around the same place.
This one actually makes sense. You can connect a keyboard later or send the key code over remote interface or serial port.
The P in HIPAA doesn't stand for Privacy.
Except bonds are regulated by the SEC, and are largely understood and able to be traded on open markets. The same cannot be said of this.
> We didn't have Net Neutrality up to 2015

2010 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open_Internet_Order_2010
Sure, but like GM's finance division making car loans; Credit Cards are a viable business even without access to depositors.

Often the capital for many bank issued credit cards does not come from depositors at all.
Yes, and neither routing nor firewall rules will prevent that.

The simplest solution is working in VMs, with a VPN client running in the host. VMs have only virtual/internal and VPN IPs, so there's nothing sensitive to leak. Or you can use pfSense VMs as VPN gateways. Indeed, you can use a few of them, to create nested VPN chains. Also Whonix, for Tor connectivity.
If you don't trust ICOs to provide the desired effect, don't participate in them. An ICOs has the same trust dynamic as a Kickstarter, and as long as somebody is okay with that, then I don't see why they should be protected from themselves preemptively.
Biggest bull market in recorded history.

Yeah, sure, let's short it. What could possibly go wrong?
Not OP but in the Midwest big companies like John Deere start their engineers in the $60k range (at least when I interned there). The cost of living is just that much cheaper. My studio apartment while in college in Iowa City was $500 a month for a location just a five minute walk from the campus.
Appreciate the concrete math, it helps ground the abstraction of living expenses.

The missing piece here is the salary inflation over a very short period of time.

As a Stanford engineer, one should use the leapfrog technique (stay at a job no more than 18mo) to increase your salary by 2x in 5 years. That would mean by 27-years-old, this person should be in the $250k range, 35% tax = $160k usable, $15k 401k = $12k/mo.

YMMV, but this is should be entirely doable by the median Stanford grad.
Paid fast lanes sort of do exist, but the content providers are the ones paying. This is worse in some ways because it is invisible to consumers but it's better in the sense that consumers don't pay for infrastructure they don't use.
No, inlining replaces it at the place of call. Every call, even if there's multiple of them in the same file. The idea is that, by putting the implementation in the .h file, you're signaling that you don't want to pay the overhead of the function call. (Same thing with the "inline" keyword.)

Now, if your function is sufficiently complicated, the compiler may choose to not inline it anyway (with the definition of "sufficient" being compiler-dependent).

It could be considered a compiler bug that a function with a static variable in the body could be inlined. As you say, that changes the behavior of the function. Or perhaps it could be considered a specification error - I don't know if the standard prohibits inlining in this circumstance, but perhaps it should.
Mental Health for those in crisis is fucked. If you feel suicidal, you get locked up. It’s as simple as that.
Nor could Google even do it. The ISPs are fighting tooth and nail against One Touch Make Ready policies and winning.
Automated TL;DR to save global hacking time (might not be perfect):

Adi Sideman, the chief executive officer of the live-streaming startup YouNow, spends his days hawking a new form of digital currency. The Props economy will exist within Rize, a new live-streaming app that YouNow is releasing in January. Sideman wants people who stream video online to accept them as a form of payment, creating an economy based on Props.
While YouNow can't compete with the behemoths on their own terms, Props lets it offer something unique: a kind of equity stake in this new economy. YouNow, which Sideman started in 2011, consists of a website and mobile app designed for people to stream live video of themselves. YouNow has raised about $30 million from investors like Union Square Ventures and the investment arm of Comcast Corp. YouNow attracted a stable of young performers, but it began having trouble luring new users several years ago when Facebook, Google, and Twitter Inc. all began focusing on live-streaming. Andy Weissman, a partner at Union Square Ventures who sits on YouNow's board, said it hadn't been seeking new funding, but that any startup with venture investors is reaching treacherous territory when its rate of growth slows. A handful of YouNow creators were in attendance - one hung out near the food table wearing a trench coat, pink boots and a pink sweatshirt, his hood pulled down low.
This reads like blogspam. Just a couple of very vapid points without anything new to say.
Because it checked the other boxes I was looking for with regards to screen size, memory, and so on.

Perhaps an A-series laptop would be more expensive for consumers (damn it, Apple), but I don't think it would cost more for Apple to manufacture, since they can do so much more of it in house.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I also experienced the long confirmation time issue, but it seems to have settled down after the segwit fork, which allowed more transactions per block.
Additionally, cable companies didn't consider streaming services a major threat in the 2000s.
(This feels weird.)

Newspapers often print news. Things not yet confirmed or denied elsewhere. Today I see a headline about which ministers knew about a particular evil deed before it was too late. Right now the article rests on anonymous sources, in a week all of of the relevant people will have spoken on the record.

The fairness of a summary or clarity of an interpretation is similarly easier to judge after the people involved have had the opportunity to react to the article.
>You clearly don't understand core Unix philosophy[1].

That's because it's trite cargo cult. And even worse, it's totally unapplicable to our discussion, as it pertains to program design, not how to write or what to include in a man page. man, the program, would still just be a simple manpage showing program.

Besides it, and other basic unix core utils and userland programs, have adopted 10,000s of flags and new functionality over the years, to the point that shooting down my --examples suggestion for "breaking the unix philosophy" is total BS.

Heck, Emacs includes everything AND the kitchen sync, but it's a much beloved part of Unix tradition.

>It's this that drives commands like man, that have been around since 3rd edition Unix.

Tradition doesn't make it right. Where's the science? How about some actual measurements of levels of head-banging of users between different approaches?

Also note that I started on Sun OS, when Solaris was a new unstable OS, and have used HPUX, IRIX and other such flavors in workstations of the time (and actual VT terminals). I'm not some teenager that got into Linux with the latest Ubuntu.

>The problem is that you want man pages to do something they aren't designed for, and will not change to.

Sorry, you've already lost that battle. Lots of manpages already have EXAMPLES sections. It's just that not enough attention has been paid to their content.
Yes, I do. ICOs are scams.
Ahh the fabled Multiton pattern. The similar ones are:

Making the singletons in shared objects, each one gets it's own.
Adding a destroyInstance method.
And that mechanism doesn't work, unless their salaries don't keep up with inflation. Notably, this relationship is asymmetric, since there is no corresponding way to increase labor wages without giving a pay raise.
This isn't exactly side-splitting, but my home isp, virgin media uk, does dns hijacking for domains they cannot resolve. If you try to access http://bugzilla.anynonworkingdomain.com for some reason it interprets that as a search for the term "porn". I have lots of tabs open to our bugzilla in work (where bugzilla.mycompany.com resolves correctly) so when I take laptop home, open it up and chrome refreshes tabs it looks like I have opened 20 tabs searching for porn.

https://imgur.com/a/fyu0D