skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will read it. Thanks!

edit: Just read it. Always refreshing to talk to someone who doesn't have all of the answers!

Only thing I would add is to look at the glass as half-full. Western Europe's political systems seem to be in better shape than our own, their safety nets more generous, their public debt generally lower, and their inclination to start wars greatly reduced. If we have to sacrifice a few unicorns for that, seems like a fair trade to me.
If the default risk is borne by the US Treasury, then what risk do we have in general?
I am been into laptop mode for the last 15 years.

Usually it is a Lenovo or Asus model, taken from local stores.
Just like every insurance company?

Part of that is from the value of his stock increasing but nonetheless even if it was all from the exit why not if they think they got value for their money?
> Just as important as what we do do is what we don’t. For example, we don’t do full message encryption (e.g. PGP) in the browser. In theory it means you “don’t have to trust us”. However in reality, every time you open your email you would be trusting the code delivered to your browser. If the server were compromised, it could easily be made to return code that intercepted and sent back your password next time you logged in; it could even just do this for specific users. It is very unlikely that a user would notice.

I don't agree.

I don't want full message encryption because I'm afraid that my email provider is reading my messages, but because I'm storing years worth of emails in my mailbox. With a provider such as ProtonMail that encrypts incoming messages with my personal key I know that if someone manages to get unauthorized access to my mailbox that person would only be able to read new emails, but none of my already archived mails. Of course it's possible that the intruder also manages to change the JS code returned to the client, but that's not the case for all of the possible scenarios where someone gets access to my mailbox. Full message encryption does not provide perfect security, but is able to significantly raise the provided level of security.
You are correct about the multiplication, I forgot to multiply by two classrooms, but let's keep my other assumptions. Start with $600k. Subtract $100k for insurance, rent, and overhead. (And I think $100k is a low estimate here.) Now you have $500k and 5 employees. That's still $100k in total compensation per employee. It's not dire poverty like my $40k estimate before, but keep in mind that that's still a good deal more than their gross pay, which will come in more like $60-80k once benefits are accounted for. In the kind of area that can support a $15k/student/year Montessori school, that kind of pay is basically decent, but it's not like they're laughing all the way to the bank.
You'd be surprised how crazy CPS is if you aren't wealthy and white. They don't actually seem to even need any "evidence" really.

I agree it seems unlikely, though, especially if you are relatively wealthy and white. (Also who is hacking into your system with this as their goal and how likely is that? On the other hand, in the age of swatting, anything seems possible.)

As we continue to advance universal surveillance though (self- and other-), I think we will start to see stuff like this happening more. It'll take a little while.
And, I would think that running the system that way is actually cheaper and more efficient than the US way where we seem to be moving towards individually accounting for every dollar of education for payback - all while the overall system spirals out of cost controls. It's much simpler to supply gov't budgets direct to public schools with oversight for spending.

Vs open loans which little cost accountability. (well accountability via students for which this is the most extensive, longest term, financially complex, with highly variable ROI purchase they will have made in their life so far...)
I have the same case with a full-sized GPU and it was a headache. Next time I'll probably build in an mATX case...
The future of these devices will be such that the speech recognition can be placed in local only mode, and queries will be erased immediately after.
"Legitimacy" is not really a factor when it comes to prices. Underlying production cost will put a floor on the price, absent subsidies, but the final dollar amount offered to the customer is a response to supply and demand. Universities are charging more because people will pay more — easy up-front money through loans is part of the reason why.
I use it as a RESTful API for a single page app. I use some extra packages beyond those that come standard, but they don't really have a huge day-to-day impact on the code that I write.

Gorilla will probably make your life easier. I rely on the mux package quite a bit for routing purposes.

I also use Google's jsonapi package to maintain a semblance of orderliness when it comes to request and response data, but I wouldn't be hurting too much without it.
> We don't have sensitive conversations in the living room

Wow. That seems like an amazing commitment. Do you have a SCIF where you discuss your bank statement with your SO?
Thanks for the link, sad to see this happening.
AA Shrinks Seat Size in First Class and Economy on the Boeing 737 Max
I would think it would be a significant shareholder event to save 64% of their total computing budget. Their 2016 10K

https://ir.netflix.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1628280-17-496...

says their 3rd party cloud computing costs increased by $23M in 2015 and increased a further $27M in 2016. More importantly, their total technology and development cost increased from $650M in 2015 to $850M in 2016. That includes engineers so it's a bit tricky to figure out what their costs really are, but they didn't go down appreciably in 2016 so this effect had to be in 2017. Looking at their first three 10Q's shows their Technology and Development budget keeps going up. I don't see how a streaming service could save 64% of its total computing needs, and it not show up on any of its SEC filings.

In 2016 they completed a seven year move of all their computing infrastructure to AWS. When they sized the system, they bought reserved instances (probably at a significant discount). From the math in this article, they bought 64% more than they needed if they just discovered they could save 64% of their EC2 budget. That seems like a big math error.
Huh, this seems like a pretty interesting and different use of the technology, and probably a hint at what's to come. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually most virtual items in games were tied to a blockchain of some sort, with a free marketplace behind it. I bet there's probably an alt-coin or five out there that's planning on being the goto currency for exactly that purpose.
JWMP is the successor to LTCM, built using the same models with less leverage. They also blew up in 2007-2009.

It's cool, I just submitted a paper on LTCM yesterday. AMA?
Marketwatch has some information
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/aetna-ceo-bertolini-could-...
Yes, and I don't go to church. As far as I know neither is a crime in my state/country.
More importantly, that 500M was money siphoned away from healing people. This is a share of the reward in not healing the sick.
s/mainnet/testnet/ according to https://media.rsk.co/announcement-upcoming-rsk-testnet-reset...
Maybe you could spend one year doing it instead of four.
I'm more concerned about people I know taking pictures of me and posting it all over Facebook and the rest of the internet. That is far more invasive than this Amazon device. I have no say in that.

As with most privacy things, there is particular privacy and general privacy. In particular, I don't think amazon or google have any intention of examining me. It is all just computer AI doing its thing. One in a sea of millions.
> Causality is difficult to prove, but based on the correlation between the supply of Tether and Bitcoin and Tether Limited operating model, I am highly confident that the issuance of unbacked Tether is driving the insane rise of Bitcoin in USD.

Is this a parody?
What private information is getting sent to Amazon apart from your musical interests in that case?
And even from 2005-2010 the FCC was suing ISP's that violated the principles of net neutrality.
Wireshark could see the packets moving across the network, but you might have issues seeing the payload. More so if the echo does certificate pinning.
> Someone is capturing full audio from your device even though it allegedly only transmits when certain phrases are used (e.g., "Alexa..."). They've tunneled through your modem, router and AP and are capturing directly from your device.

It's not remotely out of line to discuss the implications of hijacking an Alexa in a discussion thread on an article that describes exactly how to hijack an Alexa. You don't have to sound incredulous about that part...
edited: I was saying AMT means higher rate, but I was wrong.
“There are customers whose caches have disappeared without us doing anything”
Sounds like they're talking about some newer technology that works at range, but this has been around for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

The electrical load (output) can be a high power microwave source, or just blast out a massive EMP.
Yup! This is exactly what I've been thinking.

Are we really going to fearmonger about HomePods, Echos, and Google Homes when we have a microphone on our laptops/cellphones?
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I'm quite happy designing (in C# or Java) DAO-like classes with methods corresponding to meaningful queries and transactions (the specific and often complex operations needed by the application, never "save an object" or "find all").

I encapsulate all database access, including dealing with connections and transactions; I have a single point of authority regarding where data come from and how I call update operations; and all objects coming in or out of the DAO are free of database dependencies (no persistence nonsense).

DAO/DTO designs, in my experience, tend to go bad when there's inappropriate repetition and complication: slightly different validation in different operations, validation in client code, multiple similar queries without consolidation, unwarranted different classes used in different cases, translation between back-end dumb containers of data and marginally different front-end dumb containers of data instead of thinking about a proper data structure, and so on.
No, not yet. Bitcoin's "Lightning Network" is going to happen, though, so we'll see proof one way or the other soon enough.
there is zero privacy concern regarding the average washing machine, not to mention the fact that a washing machine is actually saving you hours of time per week, whereas if you add up every single convenience offered by a home assistant compared to, say, the same exact thing you have on your phone, you're saving seconds in exchange for the normalization of always-listening microphones in your home.
This thread is making me feel like I either don't have enough friends or just don't go to people's houses enough.
Right, because those 50,000 employees were making the major directional decisions for the company, not the C level execs
Presumably there is enough silicon onboard to keep a tally of interesting keywords, compute a very rough terrorism score and upload that once a month. Three letter agencies could follow-up with additional measures for those that pass a threshold.
Given the Equifax leaks, you might reconsider if your bank statements aren't reasonably public information.
Samek created quantum leaps [1], an open source implementation of HSMs designed for use in embedded or realtime applications.

If you've ever designed something that should respond to requests/activity, you probably understand the challenge of representing and understanding the multiple concurrent states your software system inhabits. HSMs (aka statecharts or Harel statecharts) are a great way to model this problem domain.

[1] http://www.state-machine.com/
Any recommendations on talks to attend?
At the very least, inform the public about which banking institutions they are currently using ever since Wells Fargo dropped out.

Contracting a reputable firm to conduct an in-depth audit and publicly releasing the results would also be a useful step.
_The Economist_ has had several articles on countries that have experimented (temporarily) with negative interest rates and concluded those experiments didn't have much of an effect on those countries' respective economies.

Whatever your view of the Fed is they are generally smart and well-read people who have probably also read those articles or the research papers backing them, so I think it's unlikely that interest rates will ever go negative.
Most people do not go to college and still pay for income tax.
I'd be happy respond to this comment if it was a bit more fleshed out and didn't sound like an attempt at trolling, for instance why you don't consider existing POS currencies like NXT to be "evidence".
I do work in healthcare for HHS this is very much the kind of thing we do. Change is hard, data collection is significantly easier.
It should be called a "deaf" button, with a crossed ear icon...
Are you talking about a hypothetical hacked Echo, or a standard unmodified Echo device?
That depends in large part on the philosophy department. More analytic [1] departments will teach lots of courses that could just as well be cross-listed as theoretical computer science courses.

But some departments are less analytic (e.g. departments heavy on [2] and [3] aren't too difficult to find in the US). In those departments, the mode of thinking is very different from what you'll experience in a CS course.

And in both cases, taking a lot of humanity courses will teach you how to write well. Which is definitely a skill that a lot of CS majors lack.

(Also, a course of study in analytic philosophy can definitely help round out a CS major that's too light on the theory courses.)

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics
Look at what prosecutors do today with internet history. They search through whatever they can find in the browser history of a supposedly guilty suspect, cherry pick anything remotely incriminating, and use it completely out of context to support whatever case they are trying to build. I don’t think it’s one bit far fetched or paranoid to see something similar happening if they could ever get access to a suspects indexed conversations.
Directional decisions aren't the only important decisions.

And, yes: Non-C-level execs make directional decisions all the time. Especially in a company the size of Aetna.
No paywall: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
> Just like every insurance company?

Yes, which is why insurance for something that's non-optional - health - is so sucky, and sucky enough that the rest of the developed world has decided to largely cut out the middleman.
That's also a tradeoff I'm not willing to make. I could easily build her a system that lets her play music and podcasts by voice. However it would take tens of hours. That's time I'm simply not willing to divert from other areas to avoid a microphone in my living room. If it was a camera in my bedroom the calculus might be different.
You're picking a piece out of my full response and adding context I didn't provide. I said the overall statement was absurd, not that capturing audio was.
I'm no expert but mulling it over.... If Tether is big enough that the price of BTC is effected by it, such that investors feel they can cash out and that is part of their risk calculation, then a tank in Tether would also cause a drop in BTC.

If Tether is backed by loans and not hard cold cash that's a risk and effects the value.

If someone is able to buy Tether on credit, and the credit is actually backed by BTC then there could be a loop.

I'm not sure about the likelihood of this but if Bitfinex is overleveraged somehow then anything is possible. At least I think that was the argument.
Right, and that doesn't seem good to me, but I don't think the fallout from student loans will be anywhere near the fallout from defaulted mortgages in 2008ish because they just aren't as as levered.

So it's terrible for the people involved, but not directly bad for society as a whole (but probably still bad in its second and third order consequences).
The problem with subsidizing college in any way, including the current student loan system is that it encourages people to go to college whether it makes sense or not, and as several people have mentioned in this discussion, in a lot of cases, it doesn't make sense.

Anyone who is properly motivated should be able to go to college, but when I hear cries for a free college education, I can imagine that that would stimulate a huge influx of people who do that simply as an excuse to take a 4-year vacation (of sorts). People who are properly motivated and who have what it takes should be able to go to college, but it needs to cost something... just not as much as it does now.
Futures coming soon. Look what happened to subprime when it became possible to go short.
Sure, and the relationship you have with your dog is probably "priceless", too, but that doesn't mean it should be trivially easy to get a three-figure loan to bring one home, and that animal shelters should charge three figures per adoption.

I'm really not belittling your degree. I value such degrees highly. I also don't think they should cost so much, nor that the student-loan bubble should be allowed to facilitate charging you so much for it. Ideally fixing the system wouldn't eliminate such degrees, they would just decrease the cost to something reasonable.
For most people it's still the best bet to go to college if you want a career. Even in Germany with its strong vocational programs there is a long term trend of jobs going more and more to college graduates. My sister is "Bankkaufmann" and did OK when she started 25 years ago. Now the same job is only for people with a bachelors minimum.
I'm not disagreeing that if you're developing a Web app, embedding logical or constraint programming techniques into a JavaScript API could make sense. OTOH, there's an obvious way for data exchange between JavaScript and Prolog, in that JSON can be be parsed by using Prolog's embedded `op/2` predicate and operator-precedence parser for defining custom DSLs.
$450m would work out to $900 per employee (assuming 50k employees), not bad for a bonus.

edit: As commenters below pointed out correct number is $9,000 per employee, which would have made for a pretty awesome Christmas bonus.

If we also include CVS employees (240k) the bonus drops to $1,552 which is still pretty good.
> my oven has an easy to use timer that will even shut the oven off

Mine too. I literally never use it because turning off the oven is not the timer's job. An external timer is much more friendly, because often the thing I'm cooking still needs 5 more minutes, or needs to be basted again in 20 minutes, etc.
"There's equivocation in that statement; what market efficiency is and what people generally mean by efficiency are not the same thing"

True, but: it's no coincidence that the terms are used for different things. What we really care about as humans is "market efficiency" in the ordinary English sense of the word. That's really hard to define, though, so economists redefine it in a very precise, technical, and yes, 'boring' statement. Now it is easier to see if we have it, but also not very useful. However, it can still be used to argue that any intervention in the market will be a mistake. The confusion about what the term "market efficiency" means is not just a coincidence. Redefine it as something easily proven, and then let people mistake that for a proof of what they actually care about, and you get the same political/lobbying result as the (rather more difficult, perhaps impossible) task of proving that markets are efficient in the way we actually care about as humans, rather than just economists.
It’s been a long,’long time since I’ve seen it that I completely forgot, hah! Guess it’s not as bad as a name still then.
Income tax covers way more than education.
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Erm... I have a cooking timer. It's spring-operated, you turn it left to the
max and then turn right to set the time. I specifically bought it so I don't
need a battery in the kitchen, because I have a battery timer, too (I still
use it sometimes, because of how loud it is).

You don't really need a whole unwieldy computer to just call you after 20
minutes.
Project Fi also locks you into Android phones. Good luck running an iPhone, or Windows phone, or Sailfish OS phone on that.
Spot on. You might choose to live without a smartphone and other devices but your peers are putting you under corporate surveillance without asking your permissions.
You’re assuming that the balances claimed by the exchanges are actually held in reserve.
Can you quantify the ratio of payment vs. the ratio of contribution? And the amount of supply vs demand for 2 groups?
Same TOS
disturbingly, this is clearly not the case for ecobee.
Say I start building a house. I realize I can't do it all by myself, so I get other people to do all the labor involved in building it. All the while providing all the details, instructions, and architectural guidelines to get a good finished product. Not to mention sourcing the materials required, getting the plans approved by the city, and making sure that on-sight construction passes inspection by the city.

Who "owes" most of the success in building the house? The labor, or the person employing the labor productively?

Edit: Just to clarify. I genuinely don't know who should get credit for the success of building a house. Both are almost equally as important. However I can say that it seems, maybe, possibly that labor collectively is as important as the single person making all the decision. That is no single laborer is as important as the person trying to get the building made.
It would be similar, but it would be an additional tax that only college graduates pay and is entirely redirected back at the colleges.
Note that Babbage has the wrong end of this.

Part of Google's success is realising that yes, your goal needs to be that the right answer comes out when asked the wrong question. If you type "Rebecca Editor of Star Newspaper" it doesn't matter that's not how she spells her name, or that she was never editor of the Daily Star, nor that she's not now editor of anything at all, having been effectively promoted, Google correctly determines that you probably want results about a famous British woman named Rebekah Brooks.

There's an SF story, I thought it was a Multivac story but a list of those doesn't find it for me, where the world computer has been making "mistakes" and the technicians trying to diagnose it eventually realise its "mistakes" are actually causing humans who've disobeyed its instructions to fail. The computer has been tasked with improving efficiency, and disobedience results in inefficiency, so it has arranged for those who are disobedient to be unsuccessful. It isn't murdering anybody, but maybe they'll go bankrupt or miss out on a promotion and so the overall inefficiency is reduced.
I didn't expect that to get downvoted, since it's a mathematical fact. The more degrees of freedom you have in your hypothesis space, the greater the average distance of any particular hypothesis from the correct one. Curse of dimensionality, Occam's razor, etc.
Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10
Implementing Photoshop 2.0 using GAN