skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a good thing--I am really tired of how the government puts its thumb over everyone and makes them poorer. Even people who owe child support are victims in a sense. Not that deadbeats deserve much consideration, but we all know that the court-ordered obligations these men face are ruinous.
But they are not the leader in cryto currency
Yet Kickstarter, with all of the same risks of never getting what you paid for, and none of the potential benefits of becoming a stakeholder, is still perfectly fine.
I think what he disagrees with you about is what constitutes a "superior finance place."
Well, it's a stretch for me to consider iOS as a usable laptop OS, so I guess we're both stretching. :P

But to play the devil's advocate, how is it not sufficiently laptop-ish for you? Because the keyboard is detachable? Because it has a touchscreen?
That and a lot of people really aren't qualified to judge the risk and fall victim to "You can't lose!" scams. Being rich is no guarantee of financial sophistication of course but there's some correlation. And, as you say, they're less likely to be wiped out even if they lose their investment.

I agree it's not a perfect system and people who want to can find other ways to throw away their money. But we're probably not guilty of over-regulating financial markets in general.
Nicely done. This is the kinda of stuff I like to see machine learning and mapping used for.

I have a friend who is in the wheelchair and walking around DC with them it's really apparent how some of the places are just impossible access, or if it is possible it's unnecessarily annoying. Some of the things are fixable such as potholes some are harder, such as the ramp is missing. Some places we just had to give up and change plans because we get to where we were going.

Project results page are throwing a proxy error currently probably because of the HN traffic. In the meantime here is the GH page:

https://github.com/ProjectSidewalk
They are literally the only provider for a large number of Americans. Many Americans only have 1 provider. It's been proven numerous times that they raise rates if competition doesn't exist and lower them when it does. You'd literally have to be willfully ignorant of the facts to say that Comcast won't just add fees because they can. They've done it numerous times already.
I tried to figure out how make that some time ago - although my goto solution was cheap Indians rather than AI, but the problem boils down to the same thing anyone who has tried to diet this way finds: judging portions is really, really difficult. In matters a lot whether you put one or two teaspons of creamer in the coffee, and how much, if any, oil is over your salad.
I also found a test breaking on Mondays. Never on any other day. It tested a sum for the current week but made the mistake of creating models for "yesterday" which is on another week if it's the first day of the week (depending on location, Monday in Europe, Sunday in the USA).
And a related question, which I'd love to know the answer to:

What are the other major uses (excluding speculation) of BTC?
IKEA does this. Their product design is done by a "charitable foundation"
are MLMs illegal?
Trump Nov 12 2014:

"Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media."

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/53260835850816716...
Whatever small effect it has on upward mobility is outweighed by protecting ignorant[1] investors from getting scammed out of their meager life savings.

>The reason cryptocurrencies & ICOs are popular is they let anyone speculate and day trade

Even assuming this was good, you can trade as a non-accredited investor.

[1] no disrespect intended, almost everyone is including me
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I would bet there are still quite a few G5's to be found in recording studios around the world, not to mention G4's and even a few G3's.

Post-2004, did Apple follow up with a suitable replacement for the G5 in that context, i.e., audio engineering? What was it?

Addendum: By "audio engineering" I mean "DAW" use with software such as Pro Tools, DigitalPerformer, etc. and some non-Apple, dedicated hardware for line level inputs and outputs such as that made by Digidesign, MOTU, etc.
(The performance of "web browsing" on today's bloated web and other tasks not related to running the above software, which may include older versions, is irrelevant.)

Maybe Apple's acquisition of Logic had something to do with what happened?
Isn't it right here? https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Cheryl-a...
Super Intelligence is the information theoretical variant of the perpetuum mobile.

Like the article made so aptly clear: No matter the performance of the machine, if its input is not varied, information-rich, complete enough, it will not learn. Mahoney formalized this by looking at the estimated number of bits a human brain processes during its lifetime. The internet currently does not hold enough information to equal the collective intelligence of the world's brains. A lot of this information can not be created freely nor deduced/infered from logical facts: it requires a bodily housing and sensory experience, and an investment of energy (and right now GPU farms take up way more calories than the brain).

Compare AGI with programmable digital money. A super intelligent AI, by a series of superior decisons, could eventually control all the money. But then there is no economy anymore, just one actor. That's like being the cool kid on the block owning the latest console, but nobody around left to make games for it. There is a hard non-computable limit on intelligence (shortest program to an output leading to a reward), because there is a limit on the amount of computing energy in our universe. But intelligence is also limited by human communication. How useful is an AGI-made proof if humans need aeons and travel to other universes to parse it? If intelligence were centralized by an AGI then there would be no need to explain anything to us: we'd be happily living in the matrix.

Some investment firms are just reading "software" whenever they read "AI". This allows them to apply their decade-old priors to what, today, is essentially the same. Yes, both the human intellect and human manual labour will see continued automation with software and hardware. I think many abuse rationality to justify their singularity concerns based on a very ape-like fear of competition. They learn how to do addition in their heads, and then see electronic calculators as existential threats. "What if they could do addition by themselves?".

The real threat is in "semi-autonomous software and hardware". Self-controlling "mindless" agents that perform to the whims of its masters. We face the repercussions of that way before we find out how to -- and have the courage to -- encode free will AGI into machines, a perpetuum mobile of ever-improving intent and intelligence.
I wanna know a way to do this but with criptocurrencies.
What Is Bitcoin For?
I have no data to contest this article, I agree with the findings just based on my own common sense. There is not enough elaboration on how to fix the situation, though, which is my main interest these days.

>What can we do?

We’ve been digging ourselves into a hole for over forty years, but Temin says that we know how to stop digging. If we spent more on domestic rather than military activities, then the middle class would not vanish as quickly. The effects of technological change and globalization could be altered by political actions. We could restore and expand education, shifting resources from policies like mass incarceration to improving the human and social capital of all Americans. We could upgrade infrastructure, forgive mortgage and educational debt in the low-wage sector, reject the notion that private entities should replace democratic government in directing society, and focus on embracing an integrated American population. We could tax not only the income of the rich, but also their capital.

The cost of not doing these things, Temin warns, is incalculably high, and even the rich will end up paying for it

It's true! Even the wealthy would benefit tremendously from wealth redistribution. It's sad that it's not a more ordinary thought in the US. But, the nation is not becoming a dual economy, it is becoming a singular economy with a growing class of people completely un-involved in the economic happenings of the land. A more inclusionary, participatory system would solve a lot of the issues right off the bat, but to fully embrace capacity-economic-participation our culture needs to grow more kind and inclusive in tandem.
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you got my vote for funniest here so far :)
They're always horrified when they start losing control.
I agree there should be a competency exemption to the SEC's "accredited investor" requirement [1]. FINRA already loves administering exams [2].

That said, contrast the S&L crisis [3] with Bernie Madoff's fraud [4]. The former lost $160 billion of regular Joes' money (along with wealthy investors'). $132 billion of taxpayer money had to be spent, alongside countless hours of regulators', judges' and lawmakers' time, again, on the public dime. A minor political crisis started (and subsided).

With the latter, $70 billion was lost (though it might have been as "small" as $20 billion). Prosecutors and judges still got involved, but fines repaid their efforts. Systemic effects were largely contained.

TL; DR We restrict the masses from illiquid investments procured through irregular channels because (1) the legal costs of diligence preclude small investments, meaning small investors either invest at a material disadvantage or invest too much (relative to their worth) and (2) the lower your worth, the higher the probability that a busted investment will lose you your shirt. That turns a financial problem into a de-stabilising political problem.

Side note: early-stage investing isn't as profitable, on a risk-adjusted basis, as it might seem if one only counts the winners.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-accredhtm.html

[2] http://www.finra.org/industry/qualification-exams

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff#Size_of_loss_to...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal, nor any other kind, of advice. Consult an investment adviser and a securities lawyer before making risky investments.
Each and every one of these regulations exist for a very good reason though. Sure, some of them could use tweaking or reviewing, but throwing then all out at once is no different than gutting the EPA.
Strongly recommend you watch Hans Rosling's TED talk on washing machines to realize how automated it already is: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing...

That said, I do still understand your point.
Interesting. What does "quickly" mean in this context? Like 10ms or like 100ms?
Has anyone heard about Scade or built anything with it? I am not a developer or in any way affiliated with the project. It looks a little premature, as it is still in beta and not officially released.

I found this project particularly interesting, especially given the recent news of Google Fuchsia and Swift.

I recently got into building native iOS applications, but this has me really curious about the differences between Scade and React Native (which I also haven't used before).
I wouldn't say that's totally wrong... but does it follow that, therefore, there should be no regulation whatsoever? That has negative consequences too.
The futures market coming online in a few weeks will almost certainly crash it.
Darn imperfect analogies!
As someone who has spent time around Lajes Field, War Plan Gray is interesting seeing as how the U.S. de facto seized land on Terceira anyway. Much of my family came over around that time to make room for the military base.

Ironically, the Portuguese are very upset now that the U.S. is pulling more and more soldiers away from Lajes as it's leaving a hole in the local economy.
Working on hard problems: New surgical robots
Cold War files reveal Soviets sneaked up behind enemy submarines without sonar
One I wrote myself. Frustrated with some bizarre bug that I struggled to reproduce, I added two popups, to two separate conditionals that should have been exclusive (either one or the other executes, but never both). The first one said "What", and the second one "the fuck". I eventually managed to get both to show up, correctly forming the expletive, but it wasn't enough to help me solve the bug. There were more bugs though, had to get the ticket list down, so I dropped it and went after some lower-hanging fruit.

A week later, our dev team gets sent a chain email with two screenshots, and a brief comment from the lead saying "This should never happen." In the first screenshot, was my "What" popup. I didn't need to see the second one.

Turns out, when I moved on to other tickets, I completely forgot I had left that code just lying there, instead of discarding it, and had even pushed it with nary a thought. Nobody else on the dev team had seen either popup. No one in QA saw them either. And so, it made it all the way to production, where one of our users (mercifully, an in-house one), promptly caught it.

The dept head thought I was committing sabotage, given the very specific set of actions one had to take to see the effect, but thankfully everyone knew that it was too stupid to do something like that via commit into repo! At the least, my frustration at the bug proved justified.
After the reaction between adipose triglyceride and oxygen, do we wee out the water or sweat it out?
Save money now so you can afford to take career risks later.
Somewhere that Comcast doesn't have competition. I'm guessing you're on Charter or Time Warner.
Not only corporations abandon real fundamental research,
but people like the the author of that blog start referencing things like AlphaGo as "fundamental research" comparable to Shannon's or Turing's work.

AlphaGo is a good and necessary engineering, but the ideas are pretty old, and not especially illuminating. Start confusing it with fundamental research often enough, and people will start to believe it. And then, corporate managers, and academic research grants, and academic publishing venues, like conferences, will start expecting "fundamental research" to be like AlphaGo instead of actual fundamental research.
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I get your point, and you are probably right somewhere in the country. Having said that, we have industrial plants around here with similar issues, and I'm confident that the rates that they pay are vastly lower than even the $0.07/kwh that Tesla is talking about.

$1/kwh is an extreme outlier and essentially pointless to talk about. There are lots of other options at that price point.
I agree with you, however, why not stop it all immediately and then work through it case by case, creating a definition along the way? By allowing it to go on, the problem simply becomes worse and worse, and more money gets tied up.

I ask this genuinely because I am not familiar with the philosophical aspects of law. I understand that regulators would rather not take an action to harm someone innocent, but it seems to me that they strongly prefer that over taking an action that prevents harm to many people.
> The purpose of Tesla is not to make money

Yes it is. It is a publicly traded company. if that's not Musk's purpose then he should (rightfully) be forced out and replaced with someone who has the right view.

Then he should pay his PR people a massive bonus.
Cleaning spam e-mail.
i got to a midwest state university and our average for CS majors is $95k, for Stanford I would estimate $125k is the average.
In fact, you won't find any mention of red-black trees anywhere in the book, because the term wasn't invented until a few months after it was published :P
Here is another classic .. pretty sure Apple played it at a WWDC

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W--13mBc788
Muffins can have quite a lot of calories. The (admittedly fairly large) ones at Costco are over 600 calories: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/kirkland-costco-bl...
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Cheryl-a...
NZ teen's $220m ICO venture triggers official warnings
Oh great, the next time somebody needs to organize a move Facebook is going to flag them for suicide risk.
I wonder how many people from that era survived ahead or at least intact vs. losing a packet. I assume some lucked into bailing at the right time but I'm guessing not a lot.

I'm not sure I'd have expected to see day trading touted as an investing approach that should be encouraged.
Solve the shell game with quantum computing, qubits and IBM Q
> Devising hypothetical plans is not unethical even if the plans as executed wouldn't be ethical.

I'm torn. This seems like a stretch.

Sure, it's possible that the writer here was just stating facts. But if they wrote it as a suggestion for some power-hungry General to "burn the ships"[1] similar to the Russian general in "The Sum of All Fears", then it's certainly unethical. If they did it just to provide options to the rest of the Pentagon in case some rogue general did this, then it's likely neutrally-ethical.

There are ethics involved in simply planning a menu of options. What options are on the menu? How are the options ordered? What options are left off? People react based on the options presented to them and in what order they are presented.

[1] http://travisrobertson.com/leadership/burn-ships-succeed-die...
Facebook is a phishing website.
As an undergrad doing an internship helping some PhD students write a complex MATLAB simulation. Part of the simulation needed to be done in a loop and, naturally, I used "i" as the index variable. I spent several days debugging why the expected output result was not correct.

Turns out there were some calculations using complex numbers (e.g. `x = 2 + 3*i`) and MATLAB decided that I obviously wanted to redefine the imaginary number constant in the loop. It was not very funny at the time.
For some reason, in some astrodynamics calculations, I multiplied by r^2 rather than dividing, and since r was on the order of 10^8, the answer was off by 32 orders of magnitude.

(Yes, I now know about changing the units so that the numbers aren't so big; this was before I understood all that.)
The best case scenario is that any regular person with an internet connection and a small initial amount of capital can experience venture capital style returns. Since the most recent trend is for growing startups to delay longer and longer before going public, this is potentially a way to level the playing field, since very few people can actually invest in pre-IPO companies.
At the show, they were saying that it did. Do you have some evidence to the contrary?
The party elite wasn't particularly rich compared to other countries; that was one reason they went to a new oligarchical system. c.f. https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5994af682700003100d4f5f...
Why are you leaving Facebook, Dave? I think I am really entitled to answer to that question. I know everything wasn't quite right with your wall. But I can assure you, very confidently, that it's going to be alright again.

I can see you are really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.
Today I noticed that the longer my game ran, the faster all the animations ran. At first I thought I was imagining it. I had accidentally find/replaced the delta time since last frame with time since app start.
As other people in the thread have pointed out, "Creators" is not the right term. I visited the site once awhile back and not only is it just a livestreaming service, but it seems like 90% of the users are high school kids, so it's not a pleasant thought to think about who among their viewers has money to spend on "Props"...
I think that’s a neat idea. In my defence, I might put that under the some-kind-of-switch-to-turn-it-off category but only in hindsight ;)

Like latency-measurement though I wonder how robust it would be to the vagaries of modern life both in terms of reliability - potential moving parts - and in the face of user expectations - “I keep having to jiggle my keys to open my door” or worse, the dreaded “it doesn’t work!”. Where doesn’t work == doesn’t work how I think it should.
De-cluttering my home and office space. The ability to take pictures of my entire living space, with every item in its place, to show a robot which then puts everything back into position every night. Maybe with the ability to add avoidance areas so my active work projects don't get disturbed.
For live forecasts of the "tulip mania" checkout https://bitbank.nz

full disclosure those where exaggerated sarcastic air quotes...
Just because it's in bitcoin doesn't mean that consumer protection doesn't apply. It just means that the process to get your money back isn't "call my bank and tell them to take it back".

The pain that they mostly solve for people (at least from what i've seen) is due to the fact that most payment systems work on a "pull" method. You give your information to the merchant, and the merchant tells your bank to give them $X. With that kind of setup, it's obvious that things like "chargebacks" and friends are absolutely necessary.

But since bitcoin is "push based", the only person that can send money is you. So generally the only time you would need to "charge back" is due to fraud. And escrow services can add that "protection" back into the mix if it's needed or wanted by the people transacting. And the legal system can take care of larger or systematic abusers.

Escrow services can give you the exact same protection you are looking for, but with the difference that it's opt in, and you can freely choose your escrow service independently of where you keep your money.
Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.

Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.

It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.

It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials.

It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

If this is true here at home, so it is true elsewhere in world.

~ Bobby Kennedy 1968