skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A Vehicle to Perpetrate Fraud"... says the guy whose organization has perpetrated wide-spread fraud at the Board level, and gotten away with most of it with just a congressional hearing and a fine.

"There was little ambiguity about the criminality of Rajaratnam’s intentions. In one tape played at trial, he called a contact and said, “I heard yesterday from somebody who’s on the board of Goldman Sachs that they are going to lose two dollars per share.” Rajaratnam quickly traded his shares, avoiding major losses, thanks to this inside information. Convicted in 2011, he was sentenced to eleven years in prison, and given a ten-million-dollar fine, along with an order to forfeit more than fifty-three million in gains. (Gupta, who was also a board member at Goldman, was later convicted of insider trading as well.)"

Source: 2016 : The Man Who Terrifies Wall Street: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/the-man-who-te...
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> As a big thinkpad fan

I have a stack of X220's with big batteries , which are still my favorites, but for travel it's not very good. If they break, they can be replaced for $50-80 which is excellent, but they are just too bulky. But that, indeed, made me a huge trackpoint fan. So much more comfortable than a trackpad imho.

> ipad

No 'unrestricted' OS is an issue when programming; I tried a lot of ways to do coding on Android/iOS but it's just not very nice. Linux is more obvious for me personally.

> I am still looking for the right device.

Yep. But at least choice is reaching us fast; it is possible to build the perfect machine for a few $100k in small runs; that used to be hard. When the OpenPandora came out, that was still a huge issue. Now it's actually possible. So i'm thinking more people will push for perfection. In my world, battery life is by far the most important; I don't care so much about cpu/gpu power (if I need that, I login on a server for cpu/gpu or memory work and I don't like 3d games; I like 2d games), but an empty battery is really annoying. As I travel a lot, I find myself with fine internet but scarce power and I need 10+ hours to work. With the OpenPandora (too low resolution/not very good screen and very annoying keyboard but removable batteries and good software community / hackers) or Pocket I am happy.

My dream setup would be:

- l x w size of the Gemini
- h size more of the pandora (you need to give in somewhere for below features)
- Linux (it's an expensive and full featured machine; it needs a full OS imho, or at least the option for one)
- swivel (2-in-1) of the zaurus (that would be a dream but probably very hard to do); the zaurus was lightyears ahead of what they have now in that space imho; you had a little tablet but no keyboard in the way like those 2-in-1/flips usually have now
- sd card slots of the pyra/pandora
- ports of the pyra
- storage of the Pocket (looking at the space inside the pandora now and the internals of, say, an Samsung ssd, it would be possible to fit swappable inards of an ssd drive, so that would make it even more perfect)
- 4g/wwan of the gemini/pyra
- usbc of the pocket (not sure about the pyra but the charger for the pandora is annoying; you can them charge with usb but that's very slow)
- keyboard of the gemini/psion
- screen resolution / quality of the Pocket (for me touch screen is not needed ; that would only be handy if 2-in-1)
- trackpad of the pocket
- hotswap batteries (aka little battery to allow for 3 minute swap window) of the x230+
- backlighting of the macbook

The thing i'm not sure about is casing; aluminium (Pocket) isn't very sturdy and plastic (Pandora/x220) cracks fast; I think I like the Pandora way better though; it's easy to replace the casing and it's less bothersome if it cracks. It looks far worse though. What would be a more rugged option?

The price could be higher as this is a niche device; only weirdos like me would buy it anyway but there are enough of us to make a few runs as prices fall for making this kind of thing.
Gold is also marketing. No one is going yaya over other, similarly rare elements [1]. Tantalum is significantly less common then gold, for example, and doesn't tarnish! And yet gold is 320x more expensive than tantalum [2] [3]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...

[2] https://www.metalary.com/tantalum-price/
[3] https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/today/kilograms/u...
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Ask HN: What could we do with all the mining power of Bitcoin?  Fold Protein?
Instead of buzzing SHA-512 in circles like busy bees ad infinitum, is there any way we can use these calculations productively?
I know only of Flow for JS, but are there signs that it's commonly used, or are there other JS typecheckers with a more optimistic trajectory?

It looks to me more like compile-to-JS languages are winning this race. Which is good, as it enables sthings like ClojureScript and Elm. Also many of us think the lack of static types is the least of the problems in JS.
Korean and Spanish, the same? For me, Korean is more difficult than Japanese, though Japanese's writing system will take longer to learn because of the extensive and somewhat odd use of kanji (Chinese characters). But Japanese grammar is generally simpler than Korean's, and sounds are much easier to distinguish.

I'm nearly fluent in Korean after years of effort. My Japanese far is weaker, but with far less effort put in. I'm nearly native level in French so biased, but I find Spanish to be almost effortless to learn compared to Korean or Japanese (which are actually closely related). Just, like, memorize a bit, get some simple grammatical rules down, and if you don't remember you can test out the latinate word from English. It's cognate heaven. Korean and Japanese are like from another planet, once you get past the initial hotel-and-taxi stuff.
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Just use a suitcase. Keep it childhood, i.e. all in one big box and don't go for adult sorted mode.

Fundamentally, as a child Lego builder all bricks should be in use at all times as part of an existing construction.

Therefore if you are going to build a Saturn V rocket then you demolish the black and white houses in the townscape to make the rocket. Existing models are de-facto storage, if you also need a new car and there is no windscreen then maybe another car becomes an open top sports car. There is no receptacle labelled as 'windscreens' with the Lego part number.

In this mode all inventory is in memory, sure there is a lot of scrabbling around but that's Lego.

The other benefit of the suitcase is that it is lined and therefore good for scrabbling. Plus there are pockets for a few special pieces.

So collect an old suitcase as well as the Lego bricks whilst you are there. In practice the suitcase works well for moving play from room to room, plus, once closed, the suitcase can tuck under a bed or coffee table.
A thread in the physics education I received was "we used to have (old model), but then that experiment caused us to think (new model)" ad infinitum. Maybe there's just a problem with my own brain, but I experience significant interference between the old models and newer models. In particular, mass is super confusing to me in a way that, say, electric charge is not.
Algorithm can find a neighborhood’s political leanings by its cars
Merchant is used mainly to handle large amounts of number changes in a way that makes sense. In a lot of games (especially idle games), there's lots of different counters that should be updated all at once.

For example, you may have the amount of player gold and experience, but you also might have a number for every item in the game. Merchant is a pattern to deal with all of these in one fell swoop instead of having lots of separate functions that loosely relate to each other like:

```
updateGold();
updateSwordPower();
payForSwords();
...
```

So it could be used in gamification if you have lots of currencies and items, yes. But if you're doing something simple, you might be better off just doing it with regular javascript patterns.
I agree and I have stopped trying as well. I'm in bioinformatics and I do the big data, Linux cluster, data pipeline stuff. Then in the end I dump it all in Excel and let the very smart and knowledgeable (lab) biologists play with it. It's important that they play and have flexibility to massage data as they see fit, they understand the data deeply. I started out constantly trying to figure out what they want and build it into the pipeline... It doesn't work because often they don't know what they want exactly when starting.

Now I just offer handy things like pre-sorting, filtering (some boolean columns to allow them to quickly filter stuff), better column names or reports with extra info. I try to figure out the things they find tedious and automate them once and for all. But I hold back as much as I can.
Great work.

Specifically, Google purchases 3 GW of renewable energy and sells it to the grid at a loss.[1] This isn't the same as being directly powered by renewables because they don't have to worry about time shifting supply and demand, which is often done using natural gas.

[1] cloud.google.com/environment/
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It would be interesting to visualize a SmSn knowledge graph as a Concept Map. I feel that text buffers are best for viewing and editing a graph when you are seated at a keyboard, but graphical views have their place, as well.
From the footnote:

> But the Parallel STL implementation itself does not require TBB
One more relevant note - (Olshausen and Field, 1997) showed that the filter employed by V1 simple cells could be learned using some simple assumptions about sparse coding and a single image. Translation invariance built in by way of the sampling scheme of the image, small patches.

The filters learned by the first layer of CNNs is usually of the same type, Gabor filters. Not a coincidence.

That was twenty years ago. What's old is new?
> Some hashes under consideration are SHA-256, SHA-512/256, SHA-256x16,
K12, and BLAKE2bp-256.
Yeah. Clicker, idle game, incremental game. I combine them all into the same genre in my head.
"agua" doesn't break the rule. It's feminine. agua fría.

However, there's another rule that words beginning with an a use el because of the double vowel sound.
No, addition is still commutative (i.e. a + b == b + a)

Sadly, it is not associative (i.e. (a+b)+c != a+(b+c))

Imagine a being a large number, and b and c being so small that adding each single one to a will result in a, but adding their sum will result in just the smallest increment over a.
Chinese grammar is simple, and the grammatical structure is similar to English. What's more, each character tends to have one pronunciation, whereas with kanji there are many surprises.
> 1) Don't expect the same results from self-study with a textbook and some subtitled movies.

> 2) Even if you lived there and devoted your entire days to study, it would be difficult to ramp up that quickly.

These are 2 wildly different scenarios. If you stay with a family, immerse yourself and go to class every day you would have an advantage over an FSO officer.

As to not being professionally fluent in that time, that is definitely true. But you should reach a level where you can be independent enough to get around, speak and understand.
I wish SML were more popular. The syntax is much better and regular. I'll be done teaching you advanced SML language features before I could finish teaching the basics of ocaml.

SML also has a multithreaded implementation in polyml and a better compiler in mlton. The standard library is not big enough, but at least there aren't 4 like in ocaml (std, core, batteries, and container).

The only issue is that just a little more syntax would be nice, but the next gen group is working on that.
Yes, the converse applies, at least with the caveat that the week estimates are pretty much bullshit, and the map in general is very speculative. In foreign language teaching, you will typically speak of L1 and L2, L1 being your native language, L2 being the language you're picking up.

The typological distance (linguistically) between languages plays a major role in acquisition, both positively and negatively. A positive L1 transfer is something the learner can infer about the target language from their own, while a negative L1 transfer is something they assume about the target language based on their own, but it's wrong. Overall, positive L1 transfer in closely related languages will overwhelmingly outweigh negative transfer, but be a lot more tricky when the languages aren't closely related typologically.

Note that typological similarity often coincides with distance in the historic sense, but isn't the same thing. For example, both Thai and Chinese are tonal isolating languages (same typological features) but aren't related at all. Also, Russian and Bulgarian, for example, are very closely related, but have a vastly different grammar, making Russian harder for a Bulgarian speaker than, say, for a Polish speaker.
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Any reference(s) where I can read more about writing emulators?
Plenty of substances that aren't a *racetam are considered nootropics. That may have been the definition at one point but it's no longer so narrow.
Thanks <3

I fully recommend building one! Idle games are a fantastic programming zen exercise.

They're incredibly state-focused rather than UI focused, which means the hard parts are typically creating the systems rather than dealing with weird css quirks. For the same reason they're really easy to test so if you've ever been itching to try out some pure test driven development, an idle game might be a good place to start.
Lmao you're definitely correct, the repetition of "startup" was unintended.
Those are both pretty easy, too, because they follow regular rules. "-ma" is always masculine. "-ión" is always feminine.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ yeah, until you need to understand what you've read. Try out any newspaper. Without a day of study, you'll understand an Italian news article better than you will a Korean one after even three years of hard work.
I've been looking into Org mode recently, but, having never used Org mode or Emacs, I'm finding it a bit overwhelming.
WIRIS 2 is a thermal imaging solution for unmanned aircraft
While I agree with you that node.js is bad, that's not even my issue. I use Vagrant extensively and I might want to spin up 2 or 3 VMs with 2-3GB of ram to test $thing.

Now, I can do that (3*3 == 9 < 16) but, really, it makes the rest of my system just run terribly.

I would personally pay a $1000 premium over the current MacBook Pro for a version with 64GB of RAM.
Is the quality of seed stage ventures as bad as the quality of nearly all these ICOs? If so wowza.
Please let's not reduce the amount of fundamental physics in a bachelor's degree. I have to work with people who have graduated relatively recently (recent to my graduation from Exeter Uni. in 1977 that is) and they often have a woefully inadequate grasp of the basics. This has a strong impact on their abilities as engineers later, in my field at least (transformers). They can learn to code after they have mastered basic EM, QM, and Newtonian mechanics.
Between Cat IV and Cat V languages, colonial influence and other cultural factors will probably outweigh any difference between the languages as you said.

But I wouldn't be surprised if, as a broad generalization, people who speak Cat I languages find it much easier to learn English than people who speak Cat V languages do.
Does this mean huge datasets are no longer a prerequisite for this type of computing? Leveling the playing field for smaller teams who may no longer have to rely on Google- or FB-sized datasets?
Why did you link to this page, which is little more than blogspam wrapped around the original source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7dith2/language_di...
Responding to

> 1. Can that value be measured?

Of course.
... and into the air as CO2. Last I heard mining consumes as much power as the entire nation of Ireland.
This is really un-American, on so many levels. I can't believe that anyone who took an oath to defend the US constitution would do this. At all.
Cloud9 releases AWS integration
One design aspect not mentioned here - I don't know if it has an official name or not - is the idea of sub-goals. By which I mean mini achievements, not always explicit, beyond the main goal that players can achieve.

Dominion is a great example of this. I rarely win but I have great fun building a stupidly optimised deck. For me building the 'perfect' deck is as fun a goal as winning. I once bought two colonies (highest victory card) in once turn, and even though I lost by a few points I felt like I'd won.

This feature is increasingly popular in new games.
ZingFront: The only Chinese star of the Facebook convention, what have we done?
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High-Resolution Image Synthesis and Semantic Manipulation with Conditional GANs
Amazon launches AWS Cloud9, a browser-based IDE for cloud developers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...
patriot act is rather broad for ensuring strong legal protections.
Did they hide it? I see "https://" in my Firefox.
Obviously your situation is lamentable and frustrating however with frustration always comes an opportunity to improve. I would argue that there are a number of useful things to be learned.

* Instructions on how to do particular tasks in a gui that may change drastically in the next version are of limited and transitory value. Investing heavily in this is probably a poor use of your time.

* Depend on platforms you control. People whose relationship to you is decidedly asymmetrical have little reason to concern themselves with your needs. At minimum a platform ought to be open source and self hosting ought to be a realistic option for you.

* You might want to consider a virtual machine configured with a particular environment as a better way to present learners with a setup environment. While installing virtualbox will take a few extra minutes anyone to whom go to a website, download the installer and click next is too high a bar might have too little invested in the matter.

* Text is a better medium to teach compared to video. Video requires a lot more bandwidth, is less portable especially to anyone who might want to view it offline or in areas with bad or inconsistent connectivity, requires more time to produce, is harder to update, is harder to bookmark, is harder to share, is harder for the learner to refer to later.

Compare cutting and pasting a bit of text into a note, or referring to a bookmark vs finding the exact spot in a video where you mentioned a particular fact.
> However, for most freshmen, the math is simply beyond them in their first year.

You can introduce Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics very early on if you're okay with hand-waving over some of the analytical details and presenting it mostly as a problem solving tool. E.g. David Morin's Introduction to Classical Mechanics does a great job with minimal formal prerequisites (freshman calculus is adequate for the majority of the book) though its exercises and problems, which are the book's highlight, will be too challenging for most freshmen.

I think a low-brow problem solving centric approach is ideal as an introduction to Lagrangian mechanics in particular (not so much Hamiltonian mechanics) since the advantages are so stark and obvious compared to the Newtonian formalism. You don't have to worry about how velocities and forces transform to write down the equations of motion. You just write down the Lagrangian and take derivatives. That's something every student will immediately appreciate.
https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-mode

I have been using this for almost two years now. I am not sure if there are any other users but I find it very convenient. (Disclaimer: I wrote the extension).
Why Map is used instead of plain object {} ?
And why it's Map and not new Map ?
This is privileged information.
EVs are cheaper than gasoline-powered cars to fuel and drive
> I think we all know the answer to that question :)

May I ask-- for those not in the know --that what is it? :) From your comment I'd infer that username/password, but that hasn't been the case for many years, at least at the banks I use (in Europe).
Another issue I've seen with rust (benchmarks) that's rarely talked about is memory usage, which is pretty important in a kernel. Sometime it only uses a little more memory, but quite often it will use twice as much and occasionally an order of magnitude more.

To be fair these benchmarks are aiming for speed, but the c baseline typically produces faster code with less memory, so it may very well be a case of TANSTAAFL.
Actually, floating point addition isn't necessarily commutative[1][2], which is one of the problems of thinking of floating point as just a number. Although in this case, it's at least still addition, but the type of things being added have special conditions.

It's more like doing calculations on scientific notation, where there are special rules for how to keep the right number of significant figures/precision after operations. Like scientific notation, you would probably convert to one form or another (even if in your head) before doing the operation, and keep note of the possible loss of precision.

This is exactly the reason why adding floats to ints is something that people think should require an explicit conversion, so it's more obvious that's a point that may introduce loss of accuracy.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24442725/is-floating-poi...

2: https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/BinMath/a...
Incidentally, this is close to how it works (at least around my part of the world) when you as a residential customer choose to buy solar/wind generated electricity. The retail electricity providers sell you electricity from a spot market (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market#Wholesale_e...) and you pay the local power comapny to send you the electricity over the national grid.

BTW there's a big difference here between GW (power) and energy - do they contract 3 GW 24/7 or are they buying 24*3 GWh per day whenever the spot prices are lowest, or are they paying companies to average 3 GW per day over a multi year contract? In the first scenario there will be surplus over 3GW for most of the day.
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Sure but the US also has a very broad definition of "reasonable", where just about any kind of information you share through or with a business is a "business record" and doesn't require a warrant.

Not to mention the blanket surveillance, use of Stingrays without a warrant and near total lack of privacy law.

The US might not be as _bad_ as China but it's still far from _good_.
They show https:// but they hide http://
How do you mean it's "way too old already"? If it works, it works. You're guaranteed to introduce problems every time you introduce change so there needs to be a strong reason to do. Why change what works?
Show HN: SumEval – Multi-language evaluation framework for text summarization
If my scummy business model was threatened like this I would probably also call the replacement “A Vehicle to Perpetrate Fraud”
Ask HN: New Business Models for Post-Net Neutrality Era
I thought it would be a valuable discussion to consider what new opportunities may emerge in the event net neutrality is gutted (which right now, looks imminent).

What will people have a harder time gaining access to? What services will be forced back into brick and mortar? What services will require a transformation all together?
Finnish 834+ weeks for me.