skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lottery ticket is just about the worst example you could use to prove the connection between risk and motivation. It has a low chance of paying off, yet people still buy them all the time.
Onyx has models like this, but check the mobileread forums for discussions about them before buying because the site is pretty terrible in terms of amount of info (at least for me on mobile).

I also thought they were going to be jumping to Android 6, but the site still looks like all 4.x.

http://onyxboox.com/product#lineup-5

Looking at the linked online shop, 9.7" is ~$380 and 13.3 ~$800
What will stop him from doing both charging you a flat fee and recommending less than optimal products to get an undertable commission. He can take you for a ride before you realize the game.

I think this can work only if we as customer also learn to cross examine his reasoning and ask hard pointed questions.
What right do they have to stop someone from committing suicide?

Generally suicide is treated as a crime, and can result in someone being involuntarily held for long periods of time, perhaps even forced to take psychotropic drugs. They spin this as "saving lives" but really this bottoms out in people getting harassed by police or potentially locked up for daring to post anything about suicide in or around Facebook (which is increasingly the entire web).

And honestly, if someone wants to commit suicide then Facebook of all "people" has no fucking business trying to stop them.
k = kilo - prefix for one thousand.
If you are an investor, accreditation rules eliminate 95+% of the population as competition for your investment. That means you will get higher returns and better negotiation terms.

Actually, for non-startups (i.e., 99% of new businesses), loans from banks, family, and friends, are the primary form of investment. This method of investing does not require the investor to be accredited.

Neither could employees that have access to internal financials.

Investors are also not entitled to internal financials. They might have a right to financial statement, but those are very different things.

Employees get lower wages because there is less capital invested

If the increased capital is coming from employees, then this is just a circular transaction: the money goes from the employee, to the company, back to the employee again = no net financial difference.

Founders get less money
In the real world, founders borrow money, which forces them to be calculating and spendthrift with their cash.

Fewer startups are created

Oh no! Juicero would never have existed!...Wait, that's a good thing, and the very existence of Juicero and other wasteful startups suggests that the problem is too much capital, not too little.
> Why are these framed as independent factors?

Because people have lived in poverty for thousands of years without debilitating depression and anxiety.
I've been told that in some design seminars, IKEA explains that one of their targets is people undergoing a crisis such as divorce, job displacement, recovery after a disaster... situations in your life where you suddenly need to fully furnish a home as soon as possible. Makes sense, but it still felt a bit dark at the time!
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> And does the average consumer need more than 20MBS and more to the point be willing to pay for it

The most commonly purchased NBN service in 2016 is 25mbps Down 5mbps up. (51%) and 14% of customers buy 100/40: So yes to both questions.

And that’s 2016. Why skate to where the puck is rather than where it’s going?
I think the line between "customer" and "investor" is actually pretty clear.
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all fun and games until somebody loses an eye
> the use cases above

That exactly is my point. You list usage cases - but nobody is USING it.

Unless there is a meteoric increase in real world usage (i.e. non speculative) to match the valuations the whole crypto world is going to have a very ugly surprise.

You know what's a sure sign of a bubble? When people not even remotely in that world start asking me about this bitcoin thing - they heard it only goes up and it's easy money. Zero notion as to what it is beyond that. How's that for price discovery?
Our concepts of relationships, parenthood and (crucially) romance are so far apart you’d need a space shuttle to go between them.

This is... not exactly actionable advice for everyone ?
I don't agree with all the "growth" and "fixed" categorization. Intelligence is fixed, that's pretty much a fact (see all research about IQ etc.). What isn't fixed is your state and knowledge in the process of solving a problem. It has nothing to do with intelligence.

This is the equivalent of talking about cars engines, and how some can get to higher speed than others, when in the end of the day you can probably reach your destination even with an old car engine, that can only drive and accelerate relatively slowly. It didn't magically improve/grow so you can reach your destination. You reach it because you kept the car moving.
Yeah dude. Don't change until someone forces you to.
I get the pornography part, whenever you are checking a simple site it can happen that there is NSFW stuff visible without a warning.

However, toxic community? I never had that impression. That said I never used Tumblr for longer periods and I don't get how to comment on stuff or really interact there.
It was fairly soon after she started as CEO, wasn’t it? Possibly before she fully internalized Yahoo’s uncanny ability to make everything it buys just slowly become irrelevant.

On the plus side, Yahoo probably does now have the world’s largest collection of meticulously catalogued porn.
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Their ICO website, which is currently down, had claimed that they had raised $1 million in the first 6 hours of the eCash token sale.
As Bitcoin Scrapes $10,000, an Investment Boom Like No Other
I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to how we might improve this aspect of the community without also ruining it in the process?

In general, I'd like to see voting and flagging on HN become more transparent. While there are some good arguments for maintaining the current "anonymous" approach, I testing some alternatives could lead to something better.

One quick change that I'd like to see would be to privatly expose the total vote count to the poster instead of just the net total. As it is, it's hard to distinguish a contentious issue from one that only a small number of people are interested in.

For example, instead of showing a comment as "-2", it might show "-2" with a mouseover that shows "+20 -18 = 2". This would be a tiny change, the data is already being recorded, and it could just as easily be rolled back if it doesn't produce a desired effect.
I don't think we read the same links. "defending" and "rebuttal" are in none of the links I gave.
I don't think that position itself is incorrect. I do believe the position that this justifies repealing NN is very incorrect. Repealing NN isn't going to do a thing regarding competition. We still have both problems. But if we keep NN in place, then we still lack competition, but at least we have a neutral net. We can then spend our efforts trying to attack the competition problem.
There isn't really a single program. Man pages have been built through convention by people who've taken the time to write them, at various points following guidelines from Ritchie et al. It's usually down to the OS to explain the purpose and function of man pages in their own documentation.

For some Operating Systems, man pages are exceptionally high quality (most notably the BSDs). For some, they're bilge, but such systems tend to have init managed through systemd.

Having said that, many OSes support info(1), which provides more detailed software manuals for many pieces of software.

Of course, there are actual physical locations for forms of documentation not in man format or structure. You can find out where such documentation lives on your system on most Unix-like OSes through man:

$ man hier
"It's not acceptable to punish today's men for what men of past got away with. "

The only men who are being punished are those who actually engaged in that behavior. I dare say that it is acceptable to punish them.

"But the way we decide on anecdotes and stories is."

We're not; and we're not actually sending anyone to jail based on just that. The accusations that have been publicized have been vetted, and they have been found to be quite likely true. Keep in mind that, for most of these accusations, there wouldn't be much, if any physical evidence. If I force a woman to kiss me, or grope without consent, there's not going to be any evidence of that. If I ask a woman if I can masturbate in front of her, it's highly unlikely that there would be a recording, or that she would take my semen with her.

"Also, it's not only the bar that is lowering, the definition of what's normal advances and what's molesting is changing."

No. What's changing is that people feel stronger and more able to stand up for themselves and come out with what happened. The behavior was never really acceptable; it's that women didn't feel strong enough to come forward and say that.
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I would suggest that Project Veritas acting in this manner is very much a problem. Remember, they weren't just trying to discredit a major journalism institution here, but sexaul assault victims everywhere.
That was the theme around 20+ years ago, and they have continued to change rules to emphasize individual driving ability (e.g. restrictions on team orders, although those are de-facto gone, restrictions on engineer-driver communication during the race, etc.), but it's still very much a team sport. Unlike many other major series, especially those in the US, each team is required to build it's own chassis - so other than components like engines that have relatively few suppliers, everything from the ground up may be tweaked with tiny engineering problems and the various solutions being critical to results. Like the parent post, THAT'S what I love about F1.
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The lack of female participation already starts at karts although the physical demands there are not high enough to give males an advantage. They may even have an advantage due to lower weight. Either girls are just not interested in motorsports or it's something else.
With the ability for machine learning to recognize your dishes, cutlery and paper trash, a robot arm could pick up these objects while a pressure washer of hot water sprays and dries. Wrap this up in a box with a conveyor belt on the front and half the battle is done. Putting the dishes back in the cupboard is another matter. It seems like a robot would be easier to build than a big box that somehow integrates with existing cabinets and drawers.
I am fine with it, I do this as a service for other companies who's developers are too busy with feature work.
If I get paid in cash, how do I upload my cash via my mobile phone to buy bitcoin? Or would users need a bank still?

Bitcoin (used as a proxy for the block gain/cryptocoin in general) does not remove the need for banks or financial governance. It is simply a new mechanism through which a bank could be built; but governments can (and should/will) pass laws regulating it.
My university classes had mandatory attendance. If not for that, I would also attend only 5% of lectures like a commenter above.

I find most of my learning happens through books on my own time.
> First to remember what was said in class,

Why is your professor not writing down or recording this important information? At worst, 5 people per lecture should be transcribing and merging notes and sharing with everyone else, not 100 people per lecture.

> writing down what you hear makes you better understand

Yes, you should handwrite a copy of the book/notes/whatever, at an appropriate pace for you.
Al Franken asked that question (at least a version of it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPRP-XrRBc
America is a republic. Founders, employees, institutional, and retail investors got together, voted for Congressional representatives who then wrote the law creating the SEC and investment rules decades ago. In the decades since, Founders, employees, institutional, and retail investors have continued to elect Congressional representatives who have strengthened and broadened those rules.
You're talking about F1, the sport that is showing you can smash lap records after downsizing from large V-10's to smaller V-6 hybrids? That F1?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)
> On red paper so it could not be photocopied.

Rediculous. Luckily today we have computers that can scan and color-correct. And social media so students can organize and cut out the middle-men
Hell make it a Eurorack case. But all Apple styled. It's all the rage with hipster musicians. Imagine being able to intermix your analog modular synth modules with your Mac modules in the same cage.
The finding is more than that. People taking notes using pen and paper are more productive than those taking notes in a laptop.

You're assuming that the people using the laptop are multi-tasking but I don't know that that's necessarily true.
Yes, to be honest I do much more programming than exploratory data analysis currently. FWIW, here's how I use it when I want to use Jupyter:

- Write all my python code in .py files as usual.

- The Jupyter notebook contains calls to functions generating graphical/HTML/etc output, nothing else.

- Either use one of the various `reload*` functionalities to update the state of the persistent python process, or use `ipython console --existing` to create a conventional ipython shell sharing the same kernel as Jupyter and evaluate code in there.
I am a huge news junkie. Probably why I am a Hacker News follower. With the Trump news cycle at a max burn setting lately, I ran out of mobile browsers to read WaPo articles for free. While I also have the same issue with the NYTimes, WaPo's journalism has been at Stand-by-Me-sic-balls level lately. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Also an Amazon Prime member, so I'm getting my 6 months free trial and a discounted rate thereafter.
I would venture to guess that it's not necessarily just that you are breathing in out out more often, but that the composition of the air you are breathing out changes.
Both interesting thoughts.

I've thought about the transparency bit before. I guess keeping it opaque has the effect that you can't have a vendetta for someone who down-voted you and in general the down-voters has had to acquire enough karma to get the privilege in the first place, so we hope we can trust them.

Showing more detailed voting stats is something I hadn't considered. It does seem like an step forward and it doesn't seem to pose any danger as far as upsetting the ecosystem that has been built.
"Can you show that the existence of a skeleton key introduces risk beyond losing the key?" The fact that losing the key is a possibility is risk enough. Once PFS is implemented, the only way (barring crypto attacks) you can break an TLS session secured with it is to have compromised the systems at the time of the communication. A skeleton key now means that there is a possibility of offline decryption with just having a copy of the communication and the skeleton key. This key is handled by humans now, instead of machines and a protocol. That is far more than double the attack surface area.
This was a thoughtful response, thank you. I'm not sure why you're down voted here, but you make an interesting point that laptop "transcription" is so much worse then pen-and-paper transcription. I wonder if there's some note taking tablet app that wouldn't have this issue. Maybe because free hand drawing promotes connections and associations in a way that typing/outline-focused notes doesn't?
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The biggest advantage for me is that it gives me a place to check once a week for program updates and handle all updates with one click.
The logic behind this is that any bias resulting in unjust convictions will later also cause bias when setting bail. It seems like making sure unjust convictions don't happen is probably the more important of the two? And fixing unjust convictions would also fix the issue with setting bail.
It seems that Rails for some reason completely falled out of grace. Which is a shame. When you do Rails, you are supposed to uphold to a ton of good practices, that are for most part missing from Javascript world.

Elixir is not big enough to have all good Rails people.
Congratulations, your AI wants to convert all matter in the universe into lobotomized humans.
You go on lots of dates.

Of course, that's no guarantee - I belong to a religion where dating is a thing, and we believe marriage can be eternal, so there is a big emphasis on dating. And during my college years I was in an apartment of 6 and it seemed like every semester I'd have an engaged roommate - and I went on lots a dates, but didn't get married until I graduated.

So, yeah, go on lots of dates, and you might get married early. If not, don't sweat it. Just make sure you marry somebody who will work to have a good marriage.

note: I (and my culture) are definitely outliers - we tend to go through the courtship process relatively fast - I married my wife about 9 months after first meeting her.
> I don't really understand that use of the word orthogonal.

You can imagine a two-dimensional graph with the quantity "intractable personal issues" on one axis and "chronically poor" on the other. But when the level of chronic poorness varies, sometimes the level of intractable personal issues varies as well, leading to the motion of the quantity along both axes at the same time.

That is moving the measurement in one dimension sometimes results in its motion in the other dimension, so there is no way to move completely orthogonally(perpendicularly) to one axis. This is what is meant by "not completely orthogonal."
>The most common usage of TPMs is to protect disk encryption keys - Microsoft Bitlocker defaults to storing its encryption key in the TPM, automatically unlocking the drive if the boot process is unmodified.

I had to go look this up. Apparently there is mode of full disk encryption that automatically decrypts the disk every time you boot up if some stuff has not been modified. That strikes me as quite pointless.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker#Encryption_modes
Las Vegas has The National Atomic Testing Museum and it's worth a visit:

http://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/
Most, I'd say. He had another venture called "Share My Garage", which was a rental site that he has since stopped promoting. Ashutosh made repeated claims that Share My Garage had been accepted in YC when in fact it had not.
This is an old idea in science fiction. See Mack Reynolds, "The Fracas Factor" (1978), where he lays out the system in some detail.[1] He called it "United States Basic Common Stock". Everyone got some shares of "Inalienable Basic" at birth, providing a basic income. People could buy and sell "Variable Basic" as well. Thus, a welfare state. He outlines how the transition takes place.

Reynold's old books from the 1960s and 1970s explore a world where manufacturing produces more than enough stuff and there's a huge excess population. It's not dystopian; he outlines how such a world could work. His world is capitalistic but government plays a very strong role.

This model comes from an era when corporations were about equity and dividends, not debt. Altman may see the world that way because he comes from venture capital, which is an equity world, not a debt world. Larger corporations today tend to be heavily debt financed, because interest payments are deductible while dividends are not. That interest paid is a deductible expense powers the debt-heavy corporate structures of today.

Also, if all of your income comes from dividends, you have to be able to handle considerable volatility, even across the whole market. At least 2x. That's not acceptable as a basic income scheme. People will starve.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=NOg1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT43
Everybody tends to put that certain point above where they are at. I realize, as limited to a US discussion, it is easy to say Bezos and Gates are rich, I am not. But if this was expanded, simply as a thought experiment, to the entire world would you be fine classified as a "fat cat"?

Assuming (perhaps incorrectly) you are in the US, you are also reading Hacker News, so you are probably the top 1% of the worlds wealthiest. Again, just a thought experiment, but would you be fine with your government saying that as a 1 percenter in world wealth you can no longer earn anymore, you have hit that certain point, are a fat cat and can grow no more wealth, under threat of criminal law?
Acorn.
Well, not necessarily. About 6 years ago I checked myself into the ER in crisis and was released 4 hours later because I had checked myself into the ER.
They also built them AWS Secret.
I once clicked on a recipe that was pinned to a Pinterest board and it would not allow me to view it without registering for an account. They lost my eyeballs forever that day and I'm sure there's many others like me out there. Given their target revenue model was presumably ad/affiliate referral based, keeping potential consumers outside the wall made zero sense to me.
I suggest insisting on 50/50 or client can continue to hire you as a hired gun. Don't be taken advantage of by a business guy with a lot of MBA vocabulary, flashy decks and hocus pocus. As the CTO you ARE just as essential to making the product as your partner. Do you want to be in business with someone who undervalues you in such a way?

At times, choosing not to do something can be just as beneficial to your success as doing something. If you're a badass, just remember this is not the only opportunity that will come your way.

I envisioned an alt-marketplace like Witchsy about 4 years ago; tried to work with someone who had a common interest in doing the same, with someone who had the domain knowledge and access to artists. Very similar to your situation, he had paid me handsomely for custom work and deployments. When it came to the idea of collaborating, he greatly overvalued his contribution and refused an equitable split of ownership. Fast forward to last year, his shop is closed, business bankrupt. All of his so-called "business acumen" didn't amount to shit. I totally dodged a bullet.

And, hire an attorney. Stock issuance, convertible notes, funding, SEC compliance, etc. can burn though a lot of cash.
Thanks. One of the great mysteries of HN may have just been solved for me.
- Appliances that have no scripting API and force you to install a certificate in the GUI (I have a lot of these)
- Some Microsoft services that will only take a new certificate after a restart, causing downtime. You can automate it, but not every 90 days without upsetting people.
- Political issues
Double bluff?
"unwillingly" should probably be "unwittingly".
If most instructors are failing at their job, that's a shame. There's no reason save ego for an instructor to assume that students only learn by listening to the instructor speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
Yeah. My point is that a lot of capital comes to the US (and definitely stays in the US) because of our tight regulatory regime. It's the same way that having a vigorous health department boosts the business of all restaurants: the safer people feel, they more willing they are to throw money around.
If you're a grown man with $200k+ in assets, you appear to qualify to be an accredited investor and you don't need the government to protect you...which is the point of the accredited investor rules. You have the financial resources to absorb a few bad investments/scams. Most people don't have the resources to absorb even one bad investment.
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