skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Resume writer here. I'll take a look at it for free to see if the resume is an issue. Many resume writers are just writers that learned resume writing was a way to get paid if they couldn't get published, so quality varies. I have 20 years of experience in recruiting for startups, so I understand your audience quite well.

Contact info is in the profile.
So you want to convince 1000 people to invest $100 million and spend 0 advertising on doing that.

That would be Einstein's Einstein. If you can convince 1000 people with 100 Million to do anything, you could accomplish ANYTHING.

Your plan is basically to create the ILLUMINATI, but instead of having it be a small circle of individuals, it would be the size of an army.
Haven't heard of this until now. Looks cool I'll check it out.
Modern civilization stems from the simple act of placing seeds and plants into the ground
- Tycho : Sunrise Calendar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0zdzjiXg4)
Sure, if we're talking about some kind of complicated physics and structural calculations, with lots of technical jargon - yes, involve the engineers.

But we're talking about some simple math for counting the length of traffic lights. Everybody uses traffic lights, everybody knows simple math. It is ridiculous to assert that you need a technical qualification to know it's wrong that red light cameras flash at 100 seconds, but the light changes at 110 seconds.
I used to get the desktop flash reliably by simplistische disconnecting or reconnecting an external monitor. High Sierra fixed it.
You are correct, and there is something the US can do about high drug costs. We pass a law requiring Big Pharma to sell drugs in the US at the planet's lowest negotiated price. This will help shift R&D costs onto Europe, Canada, and Asia, because Big Pharma will of necessity spread that cost around.
> that's clearly the angle they're intended to appeal to, or there wouldn't be a requirement that they be young and attractive).

Why? That's super judgemental of you. There is no "clear" angle that a young and attractive person is necessarily an object of sexual attraction, except in your own imagination.
Things you can’t do in Rust: infer top-level signatures
Another interesting case on how the interpretation of "justice" or "the right thing" is influenced by an organization or person's self-interest.
I worked at a hedge fund for 9 years. Regression models are used for EVERYTHING. Regression is machine learning. This article has a narrow focus and doesnt understand what machine learning is.
Indeed, it is - which proves the parent's point. This would be an example of something that's both just and coercive.
Plenty of countries provide emergency and late night/weekend care without putting people into massive debt for it. Of course there are places where people are worse off than us, but there are places better off than us too. I'm not going to eat the exact same Tostino's pizza every night and say "That's good enough" just because in some countries people are dying of thirst and starvation. You don't stop improving things just because it's worse off elsewhere.

It is so great that we have an ER available to most people here at all times. But we can still do better with it. If you get in a car crash and they have to rush you to the nearest ER you don't get to shop around or choose, which is why it's a monopoly. They can charge you whatever price they want very specifically because your life literally depends on it. There's no market freedom in that. That's why healthcare shouldn't be left to just the free market. That's why so many countries have social healthcare. Sure the engineer you mentioned could handle it, an engineer can handle most financial burdens but not everyone is an engineer. One ER trip can make fixing your credit nearly impossible, and then you can't get a car(required in many areas of the USA due to how cities are planned) or a house, certain jobs, emergency loans, etc.

It's not "a little on the expensive side", it's "How much can we milk you for with your life on the line?"
Hospitals should be required to post price sheets. If they take a dozen insurance plans with negotiated prices, then they post a dozen price lists. There's no way this should be secret.
"Until very recently"? So what does it mean now to regular people?
This is an incredibly brave man, documenting and exposing some of the worst of humanity.
On a low level there are no "coins", just numeric amounts of smallest units of Bitcoin (satoshis) attached to outputs. Outputs have predicates (scripts) that allow the one who can satisfy the predicate to move amount in the output. Generally it's EC signature requirement but can be more complex. A transaction has also inputs that indicate which output do you want to claim and some data that satisfies the predicate (generally it's also a script but usually only data).

And yes, it's not possible to hide stolen Bitcoin. These addresses will be monitored forever. Think about what would happen if you stole some Bitcoin from the mafia and could not cash it. There are some services that can mix Bitcoin to hide their origin.
Yes.

It's not the functional nature of Nix that is hard to deal with. Nix's functional nature is actually its saving grace.

My difficulty with Nix is that there are important subjects that aren't taught.

I figured out how to create a usable `default.nix` and `shell.nix`, but that takes a lot of effort, and there really aren't many resources to reference.

Nix expressions use a lot of predefined functions, and I have no idea where their documentation exists, if it does at all.

Even if there is some explanation for all of the functions that I need to use, there isn't documentation for how to fit them together.

Instead of being in dependency hell on the outset (like most package managers), I find myself in dependency hell when I want to do something different. The Nix community has an irrational hatred of version numbers, meaning you have to scour the web for a derivation that gets the right version of a dependency, and "pin" it, or hope that the channel you are using has the correct version. Even when channels do have the version you want, sometimes that channel provides multiple package versions, some with the version in the name.

Names are a mess. Since every package must exist in the same namespace, but its derivation is helpfully sorted into a directory tree, the same packages will often have different names. There isn't a good way to search or browse for them either. I end up digging through github quite often, which is a lot more often than the never that I should find myself doing so.

Nix is wonderful. NixOS is by far my favorite OS, and that is why I deal with all of the rough edges, but they certainly are rough.
There were three people who left their full time jobs in 2012 to found a startup with Wes promoting pandas; a year this article highlights as its inflection point in popularity. You were one of them. That omission also seems worth correcting.
Ask HN: Can we adapt AlphaZero's self-play technique for better human learning?
Since I lack the ML background to debunk this suspicion, I figured I'd let HN debunk it for me. Seeing AlphaZero's success at learning Chess, Shogi, and Go, I was immediately struck with the intuition that the fact that AlphaZero could learn so much from "self-play" should provide some insight into improving human teaching and learning strategies. With the caveat that humans lack AlphaZero's ability to separate themselves into two versions, I can imagine a teaching paradigm that emphasizes simulating competitive activities but playing as both sides. Is something like this at all related to what AlphaZero's doing and are there chess training paradigms that emphasize this type of simulation?
May I suggest that you extend RFC 3514 to include Bitcoin transactions?

Bitcoin didn't invent crime. It's not going to stop it, either.
Yeah, instead US residents pay taxes so corporations can avoid them.
It's fitting, I was trying to save some people from looking it up when the idiom is unfamiliar to them, thx!
If the screen cast includes audio narration, no. From the the article: "the study determined that it is the dual action of speaking and hearing oneself that has the most beneficial impact on memory."

The person doing the learning needs to be speaking out loud. Screen casts with narration would be worse in this regard because the viewer wouldn't be able to speak and also listen.
Linux specifically has a horrible track record for sleep/battery management in laptops, and worse recovery. Windows used to be far more buggy, but the long XP era a lot of that was fixed by XP SP3.

Aside:

I just wish there was an option in Mac to use "PC Shortcuts" in all my apps... it's the only place where some of the key combinations feel truly alien in most apps. I use a "PC" keyboard, but remap CMD to CTRL, ALT to SUPER/WIN, and CTRL to ALT... but in the end, terminal is awkward, and some other shortcuts are hard.

May take the time to figure out how to get VSCode how I like it with the windows/linux shortcuts, but my key bindings.. find/replace are particularly awkward to remember, and usually resort to mouse menus.
Detroit startup saving people hundreds on cell phone bills
I can pay for high resolution images of every walMart in the US-
Use math- estimate foot traffic- estimate average sales per person- I can estimate profitability of Walmart. Let's say it's a good quarter. I buy a bunch of Walmart stock - they then disclose quarterly earnings- investors see the good numbers- the share price goes up. My position is long-I sell. Profit.

edit: obviously many steps of this process can use machine learning in general and deep learning in particular
Think of 'owning' a bitcoin as 'having the ability to spend' this bitcoin.

This ability is guarded by a private key. If this private key is stolen, someone else ALSO has the ability to spend this bitcoin.

Then, if this attacker transfers this bitcoin to another of his own private keys (he 'spends' it), in the blockchain there will be a record, yes. But who owns this new private key is unknown.
I believe your understanding is correct. And if you have security patch level of 2017-12-01 or newer, you are safe from this vulnerability.

I agree that the article needs a TLDR at the top.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-12-01
For starters satelitte images can help infer crop farm size and health and use it as one of the many signals to predict corelated stocks.
I think they're trying to get rid of cash too.
i think some firms buy analyses of imagery to predict oil market movements by looking at whether oil storage containers are empty or full. could probably imagine doing similar things in other commodities markets (corn etc)
You don't need physical access to the computer at all. All you need is to make your malware program steal focus the same way Slack does it and then you can have the users password for that computer.

It's good practice to always assume bugs aren't innocuous even if you can't think of a way to exploit it.
I despise one page resumes. I want detail so I can figure out whether to bother with you or not.

It makes me wonder what sorts of things you are hiring for. Your comments make me think maybe some jobs need more depth to convey qualifications.

(I recently submitted a multipage job application and, in light of that, I am trying to decide how I feel about the comments here and also trying to make sense of them. Surely, there must be more to such preferences than personality of hiring managers.)
Do the other countries have a lower cost method of maintaining service, or is the patient charged the same, just not all at once (i.e., spread out over a lifetime of higher taxes)?

If there are cheaper ways of providing healthcare, what would have to change in the US to implement it?

For example, if there are three hospitals in a region, and they worked out an agreement among each other to not have overlap in specialized equipment (where hospital A sends all MRI patients to Hospital B just down the road), this is currently illegal (anti-collusion laws).

Another example -- a patient comes in with a headache. Well there could be a number of potentially fatal conditions that could be the cause, and due to liability reasons, they have to run tests to rule these out before giving the patient an aspirin (yes, this is an issue, in lower-income areas people go in for non-emergency issues that most likely doesn't need a doctor).
my usb hub and/or keyboard and/or mouse will often not be working when trying to come out of sleep.
Please, US is spending more percentage of GDP than France on health.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014...

Come here in France and appreciate that you can go to the ER for ANYTHING (went 4 times last year for my kids because of bad cough and head injury), and not pay a dime. And they have the same kind of infrastructure to maintain here too, CT scanners, emergency rooms, surgeons and all.

You cannot tell people that the guy is hallucinating hidden costs. It is the health system that is hallucinating these costs. It is a race to the top of who is going to charge the most.
The Developer’s Guide to Design Principles
> One HTTP call and JSON deserialization is often more thought and effort than people want to put in.

I rest my case.
> using fiat currencies to buy the hardware and energy

The process had to be bootstrapped somehow. And given that the world's economy at the time bitcoin was invented ran on fiat currency, it's not surprising that fiat currency was used to help bootstrap the process.

> I'm not sure what your point is here.

My point is that your original claim:

> Buuuuut, they bought it with fiat currencies, in many cases USD. So... right there the entire idea breaks down.

is false. Just because the process was bootstrapped with fiat currency does not imply that "the entire idea breaks down."
I think a lot of people would agree there's a lot wrong with government, but most would also rather have one.

I would argue that most libertarians aren't anarchists, but it's a popular strawman tactic from those arguing against it (particularly on the left). It's almost a cliche: "You know where is a libertarian paradise with no government? Somalia! Hurr durr!"

I think we all agree that government has problems. Libertarians just think that the problems of government are inherent and fundamental, so the solution is usually in less government (but not no government), while "liberals" (huge spectrum here, I know) seem to think that the answer is more government.

And we all agree that we need better government, but libertarians think that public accountability works better the closer the citizenry is to the decisions being made, and liberals seem to favor more centralized decision-making, I guess for efficiency? I'm not entirely clear on why :)
All of the outstanding bonds except two of their smaller issues are being quoted above/close to par. CDS has not been triggered yet so can't really say but around those prices BX would probably lose money.
If you truly believe the 1% don’t know how to stay on top and pull strings so they always win then you’re dreaming.

It may just be a TV show, but Mr. Robot touches on this subject. Give it a try
AI Weekly 8 Dec 2017
Is there some kind of podcast or YouTube series about ipfs and similar technologies? I'd love to learn more about how they work, what they're working on, and what's next.
I'm pretty sure you'd find a LOT of people to do that work for $300k/year... Apple has lots of money to go as far as they like.
What color is your Yak shed?
only 20 minutes in, very interesting talk, although, python is in the gang too ;)
This comment reminds me of the couple of people on HN that complain everytime someone shows off a new product and it doesn't work well in their text only lynx browser.

It's such an extreme edge case that it doesn't really matter. (unless you are of course targeting that type of market).

In other words, IP address gives a general location in a huge number of cases.
Oh yeah, I didn't mean to imply that it wouldn't all be in good fun. I was thinking of the obvious counterpoint for the author to use.

You know Heinrich Wolfflin, one of the pioneers of art history, invented this breakthrough method of teaching where he would set up dual projectors because demonstrating contrasts was a much more effective pedagogical tool than simply describing a painting.
Alright I'll bite.

I fully agree with this.

> 2) they're not subject to potential abuse.

But to be fair, no one claimed otherwise;)

I'd appreciate it if you can change my mind but you really haven't' laid out a good argument yet.

My thesis is that CDS's allow the credit markets to be larger than they would be without them, not that credit markets can't function without them. Obviously credit markets have existed before the ability to easily hedge out risk

I mean I think you'd have to agree that hedging and risk minimization is a good thing and something that allows the market to be alot larger and more liquid due to the ability to hedge out risk with them.

If swaps go away tomorrow, what replaces them? How do people hedge out credit risk without any form of swaps?
where do you guys get all this ip-to-location data from?
turbo c 2.0 forever!
Not as mature as rails, obviously, but Adonisjs and sailsjs are options.
just encrypt your btc keys with another secret key(symmetric key e.g. aes, blowfish or something else). Store them on different cloud providers, encrypted btc keys on google drive and the other secret key (password protect it) then store it on one drive or icloud or private repository on github. The hacker must hack both sites to take your keys(very unlikely to succeed) and they are both securely stored online. Also make sure you're not using the same password for both sites :)
Is that a rhetorical question?
Pets escaping is likely a concern.
The hospital gets to choose whether the ER visit complexity is from 1 to 5. How is dispensing a muscle relaxant a 4? What would be an example of a 1?
Ask HN: Why is every cryptocurrency exchange down so much lately?
I have been noticing that many exchanges are down lately. I have heard a lot of conspiracy theories - anywhere from people testing pump and dump techniques to targeted DDoS attacks to enable only certain people to trade between exchanges. I have been trying to put a single sell order in Kraken, but I noticed that coinbase, gdax, bitfinex, etc were also down at the same time. What gives?
Cholesterol and saturated fats are good for you? So, what, carbs are clogging people's arteries? that's non-nonsensical.

And when you say "worked for [you]" do you mean lost weight or helped with your overall vitals?

From what I've gained, low carb diets are great short term strategies for burning fat but not healthy in the long-term for overall balanced health.
so what you're saying is, as long as there's consumer surplus in healthcare, we should suck it up and deal with the high costs?
We actually haven't setup our Google+ presence yet.
I'm not sure if you're just trolling here, but will address some issues.

The assumption that a set maximum speed is the safest for all drivers is erroneous. There are many factors at play and a proper safe speed depends in part on the driver, the driving conditions, and the car they are driving (and much more).

Unless you are in very heavy traffic, forcing people to go slow or worse to pass you on the right is causing a much larger safety issue.

If we are interested in improving safety imo we should be focused on things like vastly improving driver education and requiring any driver to show knowledge, understanding and skills related to driving - including and especially on high speed highways. In California, you can get a license without ever actually driving on a highway (or "freeway") - which is absurd.

Please compare death rates from countries around the world (including Germany):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Safety:_international...

It's much harder to get a license in Germany than it is here in the US!

The motorway death rate in Germany is almost half what it is in the US.

I urge you to think about this and question your assumptions.
Ah, yes. Lots of stories about contras calling up and thanking you for letting good stuff out the door on A-day.

Mistakes like this happened -all- the time at both the banks I worked at.
Same here.. modifier keys are the safest to use.
According to Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, the USA and Australia have very similar cultures, although 'mateship' is not a dimension considered I will admit. :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensio...
https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/austral...

I would suggest that all national cultures value loyal friendship and working as a team.
That said, 'mateship' has a sense of egalitarianism to it, and while Australia and the USA are egalitarian cultures, that is lacking in other nations, e.g., China.

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/austral...
> By "nationalized", I mean where the state owns and employs a significant portion of the healthcare resources and personnel, as opposed to just paying for it.

In that case the NHS is a lot less nationalized than you might think: a huge proportion of NHS services are provided by private firms under NHS contracts.

> Really? Then I think you've misunderstood my positions and you might want to try another read through my original comment. Unless you think that every other developed country in the world is clamoring for the exact NHS system? Because my point is that I'd prefer single payer or a robust public option to nationalized systems, not that I want the current US system.

The vast majority of developed countries have systems very similar to the UK, with a mix of public and private service provisions. The exact mix of public and private varies, but then again even in the US about half all healthcare expenditure is through the government.

> As I suspected, you're just defending the UK system as being superior to the US system. On this we agree, but it's irrelevant to my broader point.

That wasn't anything to "suspect" - it was there in plain sight. But that was also just as an example. Pretty much every developed country have socialized healthcare that is both cheaper and providing proper care for a large proportion of the population than the US system.

> Side note: why are Europeans so freaking defensive about their systems of governance?

Because the prospect of "US conditions" is terrifying, to the point that "US conditions" is actually a term used in politics in some European countries used to scare voters with the thought of what happens if you let the right wing run rampant over public services.

>I swear that you can't have a reasonable discussion online about healthcare, taxes, employment law, etc, etc. without a mob of people from Europe jumping in to assure everyone that their system is the best and the US system for everything is horrible and we all unknowingly live in a terrifying dystopia.

Equally, you can't have such a discussion without a bunch of Americans trying to push the kind of deregulation that led to the festering mess that is the US healthcare system.

> What are you trying so hard to prove?

It's not that we're trying so hard to prove anything. It's that we find it offensive that you let people die on the streets to avoid applying known working solutions out of fear they're too left wing.

You don't need to pick the UK solution. Any solution from any of the wealthier developed countries is superior to the US system. And they span the range from almost totally socialized (Norway) to mostly private healthcare with a mix of private and public insurance (Germany, France for example).

What they all have in common is that they provide universal coverage and a regulatory system that put people first. Most of them are cheaper than the US. Most of them are
It would be insane to take credit cards, as people could just file a chargeback if things do not go their way. Are you sure about that?