skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a complete no-no. There really is no justification for this whatsoever.

What does "cover their bases" mean?

As them to explain what they are trying to achieve and find other ways to assuage their concerns.

The only legitimate thing is to have something in case you fail and they have "banked" on you. There is a legit way to solve that. basically if they want that tell them they should pay for an Escrow service - that will hold your code and they would receive it if you ever cease to exist. But it's important that they would need to pay those fees (they are significant.)

That should make them back down.

It's entirely unreasonable for them to demand access to source code.
Well banks in the US are FDIC insured.
But a weird thing to give the label "Person". They could have selected one or more notable humans involved.
Then break it. They can hardly fire "swivelmaster."
Color me extremely skeptical of this. Uber can't seem to get taxis right and now they're going to dominate an entirely separate business with established competitors? And the evidence for this is that they launched a credit card when they could have just bought the transaction data from some data provider and tried to de-anonymize it instead like other tech companies do. Something isn't adding up.
Rubbish for the UK (Bristol) I was paid more straight out of uni than I would get now 4 years later.
> but the most extreme anti-government/anti-tax ideologies. It's the very definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

That sadly isn't an extreme ideologies. Every wonder why Republicans are all for tax cuts? Its the simple idea that if the Government has less money it must be smaller. So lower the taxes of the rich and corporations = smaller government. This is why we have problems all the time with tax talks. Both sides talk with different worldviews. You might say "Trickle Down Economics Doesn't Work," they simply don't care, "There is nothing that Government does well." "Government is the problem" - Ronald Reagan 1981 Inauguration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1sGN6J9Tgs

Though I love throwing Reagan into the face of today's "Conservatives" they really would HATE Reagan today and his liberal ways.
It’s pretty had to get 8 people to get interviewed by the cops on something this serious without screwing it up badly.

Look at the fake accuser plant and the WP, they sussed it out very quickly.
You'd think that anything involving non-ionizing EM radiation would produce symptoms consistent with...cooking.
Actually, I wonder how much those devices would interfere with the normal wifi, like "when the wind starts to move at higher speeds, my movie stops playing" ;-)
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If you are in Europe, you can also buy the ESP8266 from Olimex with relay, box and eventual lipo plug. You then just have to flash your code on it. Only downside is they are not properly shielded electromagnetically so they can only be sold as Kit for experienced users (as certification costs would dominate the price). Also, if your house happens to burn, you can be pretty sure the insurance companies will pin it on your uncertified DIY appliances.
Well then what about 10 years later when they start keeling over? At some point, the music stops.
It’s a cloud based architecrure. You work locally, you synch to a cloud. It’s not a P2P based architecture. It is centralized.

Is it a blockchain? No.
I'll propose a theory: very loud, low frequency sounds actually create small vibrations in your eyes, and most brains have learned to pipe this sensory input to the auditory cortex. So, the shake in the GIF triggers a "sound" through your eyes.
I have been doing it consistently, 10 minutes a day after waking up, longer on weekends, 15 minutes or more. I have been consistently doing it for 6+ months now.

I am observing that it is helping me become mindful of my thoughts. Before, when thoughts appear in my head -- I don't take a second to say 'yes, that's my thought'. Now, when a thought, especially negative ones, come into my head -- I can observe it and reflect on it first, seeing it for what it is. It has helped me become the observer of my thoughts if that makes any sense.

I also notice I am calmer in lots of situations and less prone to rush or panic. I think it helped me become slower, calmer, more focused, and more clear-headed. I ended up quitting caffeine or weaning off of it, as I noticed that it was causing negative effects on my thinking and sleep. It also helped me self-reflect and assess my life every day.

I recommend if you want to try meditation, do it consistently until it becomes a habit.
Sadly it is becoming difficult to get a nice car without all these extra(and unwanted) features....
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Is there an example of what a landing page would look like?
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But those things were all there back when this hypothetical farmer wasn't making any money. Tragedy of the commons, perhaps.
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I don't have a horse in this race, but this argument seems to do double-duty:

> "Violent crime without firearms went down, maybe it was just people getting less violent."

> "Violent crime without firearms went up, people are going to be violent with or without guns."
That's not clear, each (second generation) TPU is 45 FP16ish unspecific TFLOPs. A single board consists of 4 TPUs at 180 TOPs total. This is similar to the Dual P100 NVLINKed Quadro which is an absolutely killer HPC/DL card. I believe they have a similar Volta option, but that kind of HW is above my pay grade these days.

Further, they used 5,000 (first generation) TPUs at 90 INT8 TOPS each, page 4, to run the network during MCTS and 64 (second generation) TPUs to train this thing according to the methods. That's a nice mix of using INT8 for inference and FP16ish for training IMO.

In contrast, I personally own 8 GTX Titan XP class GPUs and 8 more GTX Titan XM GPUs across 4 desktops in my home network. I'd love to experiment with algorithms like this, but I suspect I'd get just about nowhere due to insufficient sampling. These algorithms are insanely inefficient at sampling at the beginning. So I guess I will seed the network with expert training data to see if that speeds things up.

That said, more brilliant work from David Silver's group! But not all of us have 5,000 TPUs/GPUs just sitting around so there's still a lot more work/research to make this more accessible to less sexy problems.
That's why it's called a 'stigma' - a reputation, not a fact.
Craig from Citus here. Unfortunately, at this time Citus isn't really focused solely on solving the HA implementation for single node Postgres. Rather, we're focused on when you need to scale for performance issues. Our multi-master setup is targeting use cases that need higher throughput of 500,000+ single wrote inserts per second or say higher than 5 million writes per second when using ingestion with Postgres \copy.
Again, the term "stop the world" is misleading, there are a variety of compaction strategies that greatly minimize locking. There are even realtime GC implementations for the JVM.

Erlang's solution is interesting, but remember in Erlang processes can't share memory, they only have message passing. So you never have to worry about multiple threads writing to the same data structure at once, which is what makes compaction hard.
I'm not talking about "holacracy" or some super-flat structure. You can still hire management to run the company, but the employees get the ultimate profit from the company.

Member-owned cooperatives are interesting for some of the same reasons, and seem to work well in many cases.

Just wondering why we don't have more of these structures.
There are other considerations. Most countries in Europe have lots of government services that offer non-monetary advantages. You have to buy most of those things in the US.

There's no free lunch. Instead of giving the employee the money, much of it is handed directly over to the Government (then a bunch more directly from personal income taxes).

If you choose to forgo those things while in the US, there is a monetary advantage. If you choose to buy them yourself, you will probably find your final income level to be very close to the same as in Europe.
That was a rejected proposal.

(There are probably all kinds of crazy military proposals that get rejected)
It could also mean that the experiment didn't approximate the ideal you were aiming for. It's not nearly that simple.

TDD has almost nothing in common with physics. Engineering is about repeatable process. Science is about repeatable results. Testing, CI, and all the rest are part of a process of repeatably shipping releases of software that are functional. That's all a distraction for science (though some engineering may be necessary to construct the apparatus you want).
Layman question: there is no way to brute force access to these accounts?
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I know people who do the same thing with charitable donations. They donate to an organization because they "need the tax deduction". Despite that they'd have more money in their pocket if they just didn't make the donation in the first place.
I find it difficult to believe that the CIA would authorize an experiment that causes brain damage in our own active diplomats.
I like to listen to random classical music, but I know nothing about composer and songs. This means, that quiz at the beginning to know my preference, should there not be a way to skip it for users like me?
Your source uses poor methodology to calculate inequality, and is really outdated.

The 2014 article you're citing uses this 2013 article [1] as a source. This uses data from bitcoinrichlist.com, which contains balances for all active bitcoin addresses at the time.

This sort of blockchain analysis isn't super useful, especially in 2017, because some extremely-rich people have funds in multiple addresses and some extremely-rich addresses contain funds for multiple people.

The richest bitcoin address in 2017 has 1.8B worth of bitcoin, but it's the cold storage address for hundreds of thousands of bitfinex users [2]. It's possible that many of the other addresses on the richlist are coinbase vault addresses or cold storage addresses for other custodial wallets. The important part is that, with some publicly disclosed exceptions, we don't know if a rich address belongs to a single person or an organization.

Meanwhile, the poorest addresses contain UTXOs worth pennies that cost more in fees to send than they're worth. These addresses have been completely abandoned by their users and have no practical owner.

Even addresses with a spendable balance don't correspond to one user ever since Hierarchical Deterministic address generation has become the standard. HD wallets generate a new address for every incoming transaction for greater privacy [3]. A typical user may have their funds spread over dozens of addresses.

That being said, I'm sure wealth is highly concentrated in the bitcoin ecosystem: it's just very hard to quantify to what degree it is.

Disclaimer: I hold bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-of-the-bi...

[2] https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmc...

[3] https://support.mycelium.com/hc/en-us/articles/207045475-Wha...
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> The farmers would talk about struggling, but have a brand new semi-tractor sitting in a barn unused 10 months out of the year.

Don't you think that PERCEPTION is a horrible mindset?

Less sympathy to people's stresses because they haven't lost their dignity.

This applies to street beggars, immigrants, etc.

The stuff I've heard are appalling. Formally middle class immigrants getting less empathy because they have cell phones. "Hey they should have sold the cell phone thats not a prerequisite to communication in 2017, their priorities are way too off for them to deserve any support"

Back to the topic at hand, maybe thats part of the suicide!
It’s actually 9 now.
Not sure about that; but with past iPhones, one could remove SIM card and still use device as a portable WiFi-enabled computer.
In my province there are now more traffic deaths related to distracted driving than impaired driving, and yet new cars are featuring ever more and more ways to distract the driver.

Is it time for government regulators to step in?
It was my understanding that doing this contributes to the decentralized character of Bitcoin and helps confirm transactions (I may be wrong). If so, this is now nolonger something mortals can do. Yeah, perhaps, call it altruism. I contribute some CPU cycles on my server to balance the power of the network. Or am I misunderstanding? Is it all about the miners?
MSSQL has the same (very frustrating) limitation. The obvious and ugly solution would be to wrap in a subquery (bonus: still std sql compliant, and performs well):

SELECT bigname
FROM (
SELECT UPPER(name) AS bigname
FROM people
) x
WHERE bigname = 'JOE'

Add columns as necessary, it should work fine.

But this method can make large queries with lots of aliasing very difficult to read and lead to deep nesting. There is an alternative in MSSQL and (via a quick search) pgsql as well to keep the crazy nesting to a minimum:

-- MSSQL
SELECT bigname
FROM people
CROSS APPLY (SELECT UPPER(name) as bigname) x
WHERE bigname = 'JOE'

-- PGSQL (not 100% sure of syntax)
SELECT bigname
FROM people
LEFT JOIN LATERAL (SELECT UPPER(name) as bigname) x on true
WHERE bigname = 'JOE'

The problem is this might have a negative impact on performance because it mucks with the query planner. I've seen everything from huge, complex, CROSS APPLYs have literally zero performance penalty to completely benign single-column renames tanking query performance 10x, so beware if you use this.
Meditation on the Buddhist tradition is more like 'leaning in' or becoming immersed in your experience. It's certainly not at all about achieving a blank state, or detachment. Not saying there isn't a meditation tradition that works like that, but from a Buddhist/psychology perspective, that sounds more like dissociation..
I think we need to start capping total electricity and total $$$. I'd love to see AlphaZero 20W pitted against that other 20W supercomputer. When humans fall to that, be afraid(tm).

I'll even be charitable in order to simulate the existence of school/teachers/books: training from the start gets 2KW. But gameplay still gets capped to 20W.
Well Coinbase isn't a bank and isn't regulated as such, while a bank is... well, a bank. That's the difference. Coinbase is much closer to some bro running a SaaS off AWS than it is any sort of financial institution.
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I'll guess: depression, isolation, uncertainty, one paycheck a year (when the harvest comes in), physical danger and health risks.
The war on drugs is a massive success for the people who profit from it.

It's not just drug dealers and cartels who profit from illegal drugs, it's the law enforcement industry as well and of course shadowy groups like the CIA who need money for black ops.
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And then they realised it was wrong: https://spideroak.com/articles/why-we-will-no-longer-use-the...
Does it play commercials after every N songs?
And my point wasn't that 10% of engineers are doing that, but just that they are capable of getting that kind of job with some effort. If all 10% of them tried, that would push the market down, so I'm really just talking capability, not whether 10% of devs could all be simultaneously making that

There's an old Feynman quote:

"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I
could do that, but I won't' -- which is just another way of saying that you can't."

I used to feel the same way as you. But actions are all that matter, not beliefs. It was materially impactful to let go of the notion that "people could if they tried" and flip to "some do, some don't, and if they don't, they won't until proven otherwise." It turns out to be a handy general rule about people, not just this one scenario.

You might be right about total comp. But $350k vs $450k is rather quibbling: the main cost to the employer is a $350k burn rate.

And in Buffer's situation, it's all about averages, not outliers. If you're hiring 10 engineers, being more generous than Buffer's salaries seems like a mistake. After all, Buffer is proof that the market will bear these.

I think what's happening is that Buffer is one of the few companies willing to publish the data, so suddenly everyone is watching and analyzing them. But these kinds of tough decisions are routine.

It's very important to avoid http://www.paulgraham.com/pinch.html as a company. The company has to focus on not dying, since that's the way to win.

On the other hand, it's worrisome that there are no outliers at all. A fair market should look closer to a J curve rather than an even distribution. But everyone will just need to get used to the idea that some engineers will make $300k and others $100k. That is fair, because that $100k engineer could not easily get a non-$100k job, or else they would have done so. (Conversely, that's why the $300k engineer is making $300k: because they put effort into making sure they can get another one if they need to.)

That seems to explain your reaction pretty well, right? You balked because you're one of those $300k engineers that has a lot of options. Most don't.

EDIT: Actually, the distribution of engineering salaries seems pretty good: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=96917++101331+106709+10...

https://i.imgur.com/RLxLGzi.png

There aren't any outliers, but it's not linear, which is a good sign.
You need to establish a revolving line of credit (held by your business) with a bank you already work with. These sorts of scenarios are exactly what revolving lines are for. Interest rates are typically quite low if the bank sees overall positive cash flow through your business account.

I suspect you could get a 20k line with minimal effort.
While the media continues to spread bold claims and sensational articles lacking any facts, a Cuban panel of scientists has concluded the diplomats likely experienced a "collective psychogenic disorder". Stress can change the ratio between white and grey matter in the brain. Currently, there exists only one single publication of the report. [1]

I'd also expect the crowd at HN to be better educated than to jump to quick and baseless conclusions. Almost all comments assert a form of attack happened, acoustic and whatnot, despite the lack of details, the crowd's inexpertise in the field, and doubting comments made by actual experts (see Joseph Pompei, Jürgen Altmann). Speculating and guessing isn't very useful.

That said, I've visited Cuba and the respective areas (Atabey and Miramar) where the diplomats usually reside and it's a mystery to me how anybody could carry such an operation without anybody noticing any suspicious activity. The area is inhabited by ordinary Cubans and houses tend to be relatively close to each other. To get an idea here is an American diplomat holding a Yard sale before leaving the country: http://cdn.havanatimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Yard-s...

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/stressful-conditions-...
It was apparently changed to "Machine of the Year" for that one. Endangered Earth, it was "Planet of the Year".
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Someone else might find this tool I wrote useful, it finds BTC wallets by scanning raw block devices:

https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc

I deleted 26BTC a while back when reinstalling a laptop, because they were effectively worthless. A few years later, they weren't anymore, so I wrote this to get them back. As long as the file system isn't encrypted, it scans the raw bytes on the disk to find remnants of wallets. It also unzips compressed files it finds and does the same scanning in there.
Maybe in the USA, in Europe (and probably other parts of the world, too) it is a different story.

AFAIK, we do not have anything like asset seizure in Germany. And the prison system over here is much less privatized / industrialized, so is not exactly a profit center.

A well-staffed, well-trained law enforcement apparatus is fairly expensive, too.

And consider that without proper treatment, widespread drug use incurs costs that do not show up on government budgets as such. Drug-related crime (theft, burglaries, etc.) comes to mind.
I don't think $300k is "top 1%". Maybe top 20%. I'd rate myself no better than being at the lower end of the 60th to 80th percentile: I'm slightly better than average, at best and on a good day. My all-in compensation is around (but more than) $200k, and I work at a relatively unknown public company with ~300 employees. I can easily get ~$50k-$100k more if I wanted to play the "code monkey interview" game simply by refreshing myself on leetcode for a bit and finally acquiescing to the recruiters from FB, Amazon and Google that ping me every so often during the year, following up with Lyft, Uber or Netflix, or even leveraging myself into a smart startup.
No, I disagree with that black-and-white approach. Those are both examples of tradeoffs, true -- but it is entirely possible to come to different conclusions based on specific circumstances. There are many shades of grey -- from nearly black to nearly white and everything in between -- and it is possible to discern between them.

And in that context, although I would never vote for Roy Moore, I can understand why many Republicans might.
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Note I mean individual server settings for each backend in the backend section.
> Large COL adjustments make no sense to me. So I work for a remote company and choose to live somewhere cheaper and they think that the value I'm providing is less? The end result of this is that remote devs get screwed on average, while the best remote devs avoid companies like this, rightfully so.

Well, that depends where the company is headquartered and how much the local employees make.

Let's say the company is headquartered in SF, and the local employees make an SF-typical salary. If the company pays all remote employees what they pay their local employees, then that's a very nice deal for remote employees in low COL areas. If the company uses COL adjustments for remote employees, then employees located in lower COL areas take a pay cut, and your argument holds.

But imagine if the company was instead located in a low COL area like Phoenix and the local employees make a Phoenix-typical salary. If the company is paying all remote employees what they pay their local employees, then remote employees in high COL areas won't make enough money to live on. So in this case, using COL adjustments for remote employees is the only way for it to be worth it for people in high COL areas to consider working for them.
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I had a closer look at this technique after reading the article.

The cool thing about this hack is that even in the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, the front domain name shows up, and only the (encrypted) HTTP Host header shows the true covert destination.

The paper "Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting" (https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/) is very interesting.

One thing that I'm left wondering is if the front domain owners will be at risk being blocked if domain fronting is being done with their domain.
If so they may ask the CDN companies to block this routing behaviour.
If a "home automation" product can't add arbitrary text to a shopping list (something my phone could probably have done in 2004) then what use is it?
Selling a farm isn't like selling a house, you can go years with no offers.