skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck finding a place to rent.
Definitive guide for child proofing your iPhone or iPad
Thermal power plant translates to turbo sets (meaning a turbo generator, which is pretty much the most efficient electrical machine around at >99 %, coupled to a turbo steam turbine. Both run at 3000 rpm (a little more for 60 Hz instead of the more widely used 50 Hz) and are built to utilize the strength of all materials to a significant degree, their design and maintenance is really quite fascinating and requires quite a lot of know-how! - that is somewhat widely available nowadays, though)

Non-thermal renewables (wind, water, PV) have zero overlap with those techniques. Wind turbines are slow runners, as are water turbines. PV has no moving parts. Only STE is, or can be, a kind of thermal plant, just with a different steam generator.

Given the large unaccounted footprint ("Oh just look how low the carbon dioxide footprint is!") of PV production, STE is probably a rather good idea in comparison.
The problem is that large portions of the alt-right ideology goes outside of politics into racism, misogyny, and harassment and it makes sense to keep a community with those traits under close surveillance. My view on the alt right is that there is a line between reasonable political views and spreading prejudice against certain demographics and the alt right really walks that line (I haven't been on this discord but a good example is the r/the_donald subreddit).
34 pages of loopholes in the GOP tax plan
The difference is this is an entirely new paradigm of chess engine. So it's not just Stockfish getting an edge over Houdini that year or whatever.

There is plenty of "they didn't give stockfish enough memory, the hardware isn't comparable, the time controls were too short, etc etc" in the chess community so there is certainly some denial. But nobody thinks any human would stand a chance.

But I agree it's nowhere near the Go denial since the chess community gave up on humans remaining competitive with computers long ago.
Ryan actually just announced entitlement reform is something they're going to attempt in 2018. It seems like it would be very difficult, but there is some chance that those will have substantial long term cuts.

As for the Reagan reference in the parent comment, that's sort of a common comparison to criticize Republican tax (and often defense) policy since the 80s. There is somewhat of a common trend of cutting taxes far more than spending and increasing military expenditures simultaneously. Bush was a much worse offender here though, with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Australian Stock Exchange to Settle Trades with Distributed Ledger Tech
most educated I might agree, but best at teaching the material is a different matter and is something I would really like to see some data on. Experience makes me think, that the biggest factor is probably having the most industry/applied experience. The next factor that makes a good teacher is probably passion for the subject and passion for getting others interested in it. This is all gut feeling baloney of course, which is why I asked if anyone has real metrics on some of this stuff.
Firstly, growth rates of non-information tech largely isn't relevant to AI. That said, overall growth in knowledge is at least directly proportional to population growth. Even pessimistically considering humans as dumb, an exponential population growth means an exponential discovery rate just from sheer trial and error. So overall progress is undeniably exponential, even if it's a low exponent.

Secondly, we know definitively that information density has been growing exponentially given Moore's law. The much decried end of Moore's law is for a particular incarnation of information tech, but there's still plenty of room to grow in other directions.

Even with our current tech base, we can continue to scale exponentially in horizontal directions with more parallelism (see the rise of core counts, GPU and distributed computing). We're nowhere near the end of that scaling in that direction, let alone longer term innovations like optical and quantum computing.

So really, what possible reasons do we really have for thinking that exponential growth will not continue well past human intelligence? Note, I didn't say infinitely, just well past our intelligence.
NOOOO! I love their salad dressing!
Gotcha.

Depends on what sort of work people are looking for. If you're trying to do a hyper-growth startup, then yes, unfortunately you still have to be near the VCs in SF.

Though maybe that's also changing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15849795

RTP has plenty of well-known companies that provide a solid base for employment in the area. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to have created the same sort of money flowing into startups as happened in SV back in the day.
Plenty of abandoned buildings in the countryside.
Nice broem, broheim ;-)
Also the margins on renewables are quite thin due to competition and recent innovation in that space.
That was pretty bad. It seems to have the idea that the goal is to minimize suffering, even animal suffering. Well, the optimal way to do that is by the extinction of all animals capable of feeling pain. That seems to be a reasonable solution to these people!

Seriously, they regard spreading animal life to other planets as a bad thing because the animals will feel pain. No mention of the fact that there will be many more of them, that animals will live who otherwise would not. No, the focus is that those who live will suffer, and that's bad. They shouldn't suffer, even if the price of "not suffering" is "not existing".

I am unable to comprehend such a limited view. Into each life some suffering falls; that does not make life not worth living.
I wonder if this could be chained together with the working holiday visa.
Great to hear this not tied to TensorFlow! How would one use a different DL platform, say PyTorch or DyNet?
Menial labor robots will come whether YC funds them or not, so they better work on UBI to prepare for that.
With a short position using futures you will also be forced to liquidate at a loss at a certain point. It’s not really different from shorting BTC.
Yes, you are an outlier.
Patreon confirmed that this change is to permit them to stop batching charges period full stop on Twitter, and updated their blog post.

https://twitter.com/jackconte/status/938926147085242368
I was literally looking at this catalog last night, and I was intrigued by this watermelon seed in particular. Afterwards, I went to a Beatles/Circus show featuring some contortionist acrobats, and today on hacker news is an article about this weird watermelon seed, and also a link to the contortionists handbook. I know its all just strange coincidence, but its uncanny just how strange the coincidences are.
> It fails basic tests, like applying the standard deduction if itemized deductions are less than that amount.

Yeah, this is the difference between the calculator showing a $2K tax hike for me, and a $2K cut.
It was not “theory”, nothing about conspiracy. It was joke and everybody (kids and adults) were understanding it’s a joke. Article is full of lies.
Coinbase is now the No. 1 iPhone app in the U.S
That graduate degree requirement sucks. I'd actually consider it (as an employee) even though pay is much lower in France than in the U.S., but I don't have any higher education at all!
Piro also wrote Text Link! Mozilla you should hire this man to implement Tree Style Tab into Firefox by default.
Idiotic and laughable result - much like our tax code.
Kindly note I made no claims about whether bitcoin is or isn't novel technologically. Or whether it has a purpose. I said it was irrational that prices increase when the only news is negative. You're clearly being emotional about this.
Obligatory VSCode love.

vscode-restclient[1] is a fantastic piece of work. You create a .http file and write what looks like raw HTTP requests (syntax highlighting and autocomplete included). The biggest "feature" for me is that it's incredibly source control friendly. All of our services have documentation in the form of an HTTP "script" right alongside the code.

[1]: https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
Vimium-FF works pretty well for me.
Yes, the container tabs are really nice if you want to make tracking harder for advertisers, LinkedIn etc.
Charge the pro-rated amount on the first of the first month and the full month's amount on the initial subscription date.
I mostly agree with this, but the digression about carbon pricing in the middle makes absolutely no sense. As long as you auction a fixed pool of carbon credits, the prices will go up the more people are willing to spend to pollute. This is basically the simplest, most straightforward way to force capitalism to produce the amount of carbon you want.
From what I've read scattered across a few different chess discussion places, the consensus seems to be that a) yes, 1 GB is pretty small b) it would matter, but c) probably not enough to change the end result.

I guess we will have to wait for next year's TCEC for the final verdict though. Hope they change the hardware specs in some way that would allow AlphaZero to compete.
Greenhouse Data Aquires Ajubeo
The 2018 Nissan Leaf, driven
> One could argue that the intelligence explosion has been happening for centuries, but it's human intelligence not machine, that is being amplified.

I agree, humans have been amplifying their own abilities with tech. It's been our biggest competitive advantage. However, at some point information tech will become sophisticated enough to match the capabilities of human brains. At that point, humans will be left behind.

The best outcome in this scenario is humans merging with their machines, and that would be a continuation of that same trend. But, it's not the only plausible outcome, and that's what's troubling.
I care. It seems that bleeding edge changes to Chrome are breaking things. Example: I use the Chase Bank website. Parts of it stopped working with Chrome.

I'm back to using Firefox now.

*Edit: Someone downvoted this? What is this, reddit?
I'd swap that. Charge the $10 immediately, then bundle the pro-rated refund of the half of the month you missed into the first month's subscription charge.
A while back I saw some comments on HN arguing that dystopic fiction writers are literally evil and a threat to humanity. That made me slightly but genuinely scared. When people start outright attacking caution, that is when the bubble is about to burst (sorry, been thinking about Bitcoin lately).

For some reason some people seem to take dystopia and cynicism as meaning we should give up on technology altogether and go back to living in caves. That is a false dichotomy. Please, hold some nuance. It's true that corporations and governments have shown themselves eager to abuse technology. The blame for that lies with those organizations, not with writers who merely notice the trend.

I think we can come up with some technical solutions to align the incentives of these organizations with the people they should be serving. To me, most dystopian fiction is pointing out the gap between that and internet refrigerators. Utopia is hard, let's go shopping.
I can see why these things make sense to legislators and policymakers - but in all pragmatic reality, I'm weary of it actually working.

1) Most startups fail. What happens then? What is the path? Many folks will come from 2cnd-tier economic nations, and don't want to go back. It gets complicated.

2) Investment requirements are easily provided for by people who want to 'buy citizenship' and it's easy enough to hire a few friends/family members, park their money in an account, and pull it out when they are done. The 'businessperson' visa was widely used as a backdoor to a passport in Canada.

It might make sense to make the visa commensurate on $X in a round A or something, but then it all gets very complicated.

It might be just better to have a smart immigration policy to retain top talent across the board in the first place.

It's really not 'founders' that make the business - it's 'the founders and everyone else'.
Kudos on the release, and thanks for your and the team's work!

Any thoughts on this vs managed ml-engine? Cost-aside, seems like this nibbles on the smaller scale "but ml tooling is too hard" use cases?
Well, I personally switch to Firefox Quantum on all machines that I'm using.

It simply provides a smoother, faster experience than other browsers (on the websites that I use, at least), especially so on older platforms.

I didn't like FF before the update. My all-time favorite browser is Opera 12, but it doesn't work (or grinds to a halt) on many websites now, and its closest relatives (Chropera and Vivaldi) don't offer that much on Chrome. I tried Edge, too, but both Edge and Chrome are too resource-hungry for the 2008 machine I have at home. "Too many open tabs" wasn't a big problem in the dial-up days, and I feel like it shouldn't be today, with supposedly much better tech.

So far I don't have much to complain about the new FF; obviously, the extensions are not there yet, but I don't rely on these anyway. All in all, I switched to FF for technical reasons more so than moral ones (each year, it feels more and more dirty to be enveloped in the "unevil" ecosystem, but that's a separate issue).

Hope this addresses the questions that some might have before trying it for themselves.
Confessions of a Semi-Reformed Video Game Completionist
This is awesome and is pretty accurate wrt to average-to-best case scenarios on trips with and without transfers that I'm familiar with.

Kudos to the author.
>Based on the New Business Implementation Plan, Fukuoka City officials will conduct a review on the progress of startup businesses founded by entrepreneurs who utilized this system and received approval for his/her Business Manager residential status. There will be three review sessions during the six-month period, of which at least one session will be held either at the entrepreneur’s place of business or residence. During the review sessions, the business’s bank account, lease for the place of business, and employment contracts may be reviewed. If progress is not satisfactory, Fukuoka City may direct the entrepreneur to return to his/her home country.

Sounds like a lot of biannual headache.
Funny, because that was exactly the response to that functionary.
IF you know who's calling you, and they insist on calling you, why don't you try to sue them? I just read an article that might be useful for you at http://www.whycall.me/news/my-4500-payday-from-a-telemarkete.... Find a lawyer and file lawsuits against them. Hope it helps.
I think it's still easy to get a work visa for France even without this program.

Salaries are lower, but you have social security, retirement, and very cheap education. You can't really compare gross salary.
because they're inconsiderate of Tree Style Tab users. They could really well include a setting to disable the tab bar on top, but they're not doing it.

There are no security reasons for not having such a setting. None.
But she has taken in over 4 million in lifetime earnings... from FTP players.
MongoDB Data Synchronization
It's probably long enough to get a company to the point where the company can sponsor you for a longer term visa.
+1 for SoapUI. Used it for ~3 months during an internship a while back and didn't have any complaints.
I don't think Italy is a great place to do business, but it's a good place to live in many ways. They've got something similar that might be of interest to the right person http://italiastartupvisa.mise.gov.it/#ISVhome
Structuring the Back End Service Architecture of a Mobile Card Game
use this:

#TabsToolbar, #sidebar-header {visibility: collapse !important;}
#TabsToolbar {margin-bottom: -21px !important;}
#nav-bar-customization-target {padding-left: 65px;}
I'm just telling HN what my friend told me. It's not as if I've ever examined the file, y'know?
Thanks! Turns out the MTA does keep a pretty detailed schedule (not that they manage to stick to it much, these days) in the GTFS format, so it's not hard to compute travel times client-side. As a plus, GTFS seems pretty-widely used, meaning it shouldn't be so hard to port this to other transit systems!
I like minimalism too, but people associate that with laziness. You can't win!
Silicon valley -> Tokyo expat here. It took me < 2 weeks.
This process is hard but not as nightmarish as people who don't live in the country reading articles make it sound.

Just like anything, there's right and wrong ways to do it.
If you do it the traditional way with a japanese speaking landlord who mistrust foreigners, yes it can be hard. That is a significant portion of the market.

One thing I will say, there are real estate companies that actually cater to foreigners.

This has been my landlord for a year and I just renewed:
http://tokyoeasyrent.com/en/

There are other companies like this in the space. Look on places like gaijinpot for more information like this:
https://gaijinpot.com/

It's just like any real estate market, do your research beforehand.

Where I will admit it can be harder is when you want to procure a larger house. They don't tend to ask too many questions for studios (which should be enough for entrepreneurs family aside).

That being said, if you do have family, spend your time finding right place and ask for referrals.

Japan has its downsides but it's by far the best place I have ever lived (especially compared to SF) both food wise and price wise.
If they simply need more money, they can simply raise the price directly and proportionally - this doesn't justify a major change to the pricing system that makes a previous use case (many $1 pledges) unviable.
You could even do it where you pay the full cost immediately, but the difference between that and the prorated cost counts as a credit to the next start-of-month payment.
eg. If there's a $100 reward tier and I sign up 60% of the way through the month, I immediately pay $100, then at the start of next month my $100 pledge is discounted by the $60 I overpaid for the previous month, so I only pay $40.

Effectively, it flips the first two months so you pay the full amount immediately but if you stay on for at least two months it all balances out in the end.

EDIT: Ninja'd by sibling comment
Finding bugs in Haskell code by proving it
I've installed tree style tabs for my family and everyone knows how to use out of the box. It just makes sense really.
Can confirm this is true. It was easy enough for me to sponsor myself after the company was setup.

In my case my first hire helped us set it up, and then he handed director over to me. You obviously have to do this with someone you trust. Would not recommend this for every situation.

Edit: I obviously hit a nerve here somewhere. I stand by my position here. Get the right legal help. I can say it was a pain to find but once I did the process was smooth. It's not impossible like people make it out to be. Any process has bumps.

Don't be crazy and do it yourself though.
I need to read this a bunch of times to comprehend. I'll get back to you. Thanks
got the fire hd because it was so cheap but so far HATING IT. amazon is everywhere in it, and blocking others as well. simply put, it's extremely invasive, and a horrible experience.
“The problem is a 1969 tax law that bars foundations from owning more than a small stake in private businesses.”

So this isn’t exactly news, and it certainly wasn’t news when Newman’s lawyers wrote his will. As much as I want to sympathize and scream “those Republican bastards!”, I kinda think this is a problem of Newman’s (be it the man, the company, or the foundation) own doing.
For what is worth, you are like my kind of hero. My dream is to someday accomplish something like that and be able to work from home. And on top of that, you have so much time available for other things, that’s awesome.
It can be yes. The govt agencies have their downsides.
We worked with jetro (skymind):
https://www.jetro.go.jp/usa/topics/companies-chosen-global-i...

While it has not been too bad, the paperwork and initial startup was a bit of a hassle.

I would be careful around this route.
supporting evidence for being an awful person >> in the interview she gives partial credit for her poker success to her brother while revealing that he lost his college fund to it...
Carbs are carbs.
Really cool. I actually wanted to train and use YOLO on my data from Python for a research project I am doing but didn't know how to run it from Python and I only know very limited amount of C. So far I am using RCNN from TensorflownObject Detection API. Would you mind if I copy your C to Python code and maybe shoot you an email if I need help using your code?
Security Flaw Left Major Banking Apps Vulnerable to MiTM Attacks Over SSL
Simple, yes.

Secure, not so much.

Saying “I used encryption” doesn’t make it secure; password distribution is a key management problem which is not solved by encryption.

Your secret is stored in a DB you don’t own, and the encryption keys are on a random third party’s servers.

No way to verify anything is actually deleted.

Email filters will visit the links if you send the URL via email, further exposing the password.

Even if sharing a limited-time “reset” password that is forced to be changed immediately there are tons of simpler and more secure options for distribution.

I don’t know what scenarios this is useful for in the real world, but I certainly don’t advise using it for anything even approaching important.
> I don't really need an actual side bar that takes up screen space

The good thing about side bars is that they don't take up screen space. Websites usually have large amount of horizontal space left for you to use.

The good news is that it is really easy to organize yourself when you use something like Tree Style Tab. You're obviously burnt out using horizontal tab in chrome and believe the situation is hopeless. I suggest you start using Tree Style Tabs for a few days or a week and realize how amazing it is.

It is really for a reason that it is the most beloved plugin for any browsers invented.
See modern monetary theory.
They have both a simulator and real machines you can use. The "ibmqx5" is a 16-qubit device. The problem is that noise rates are very high. For example, just to swap two adjacent qubits (using three CNOT gates), it looks like you will incur at least 10% error. It is hard (though not impossible) to run meaningful experiments on such a noisy system.

https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/editor
Repl.it is a service to edit and run snippets of code in the browser. The code runs on their servers (except JavaScript) and they extended the support for infinite loops (no timeouts)
This is quite something because traditionally Japanese culture has been fairly close to foreigners and probably for a good reason. Japanese people are likely the most courteous and honest people in the world. You can leave your luggage in the middle of the road and come back to find it still there. These folks have little experience with foreigners and often even western culture would be too harsh and rowdy for them. Some people are even afraid of impact of foreigners coming down during Olympics.

Overall, this is interesting times when world's supposedly most open country like USA is closing borders to foreign talent while supposedly most closed country opens up their border for the same.
> During the review sessions, the business’s bank account, lease for the place of business, and employment contracts may be reviewed. If progress is not satisfactory, Fukuoka City may direct the entrepreneur to return to his/her home country.

Thanks, but I didn't move out of my parents' house just to recreate the experience in Japan...
probably because your `Patreon_Old_Max_Fee` and `Patreon_Old_Min_Fee` are wrong. The portion taken has never been as low as 2% on a $1 pledge. From their old FAQ: "Stripe charges 1.9% + $0.30 per transaction. PayPal charges 5% + $0.05 per transaction."

So, under the old fee system, for a $1 pledge, the service fee was either $0.32 for Stripe or $0.10 for PayPal. On a $10 pledge, it was $0.50 for Stripe and $0.55 for Paypal.