skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A universally recognized asset for exchanging goods and services within a nation. For example, everything for sale in America can be purchased with dollars. That is a key distinction - currencies have strength because they are nationally recognized.

If every nation banned trading Australian dollars, they would still hold value in Australia... and there are millions of people working to ensure AUD continues to hold value and confidence outside of Australia.

If every nation banned trading bitcoin, they would be worthless... in fact, they would be worthless if only a couple key nations banned the coins.
I believe the Gates Foundation has already put an enormous amount of thinking and research into determining the most effective use of a large amount of funds to improve the overall state of the world. My opinion is that you would probably rationally be better off investing that money or building a corporation to try and turn it into billions and then donate that to Gates.
Google is stingy with search results, even though its index exploits the content we all create. They run millions of automated requests on my server - in fact Google is using more CPU than my regular visitors, but I can't run on their servers even a few thousand automated queries.

They don't allow even mild automated searching, the price per thousand searches is prohibitive and you can't get past the 1000'th result so you need to use combinations of words and other imperfect means to go deeper.

I would have liked to do deep web searches in order to build datasets for ML, but unfortunately there's no search engine (or is too expensive) for bots.

It's 2017, years after the Snowden leaks, and we still use Google and don't have a f*#ng search engine for creators, we only have search engine for 'customers'. We need our own search engine for many things - privacy, control over filtering, mass search, deep search, for creating novel projects, to be sure Russians haven't tampered with it, and so on.

I'd say Google's refusal to accept bots is akin to a lack of net neutrality and places limits on what kind search based open source projects can be created - I know it sounds entitled, and maybe I should just build my own crawler and index - but you don't solve a more complex problem as a preamble to solving a simpler problem and we don't want thousands or millions of private search engines pulling the same content and duplicating indexes - we still need a community solution.

If they love net neutrality, they should support search neutrality as well, for the maker community. It's the same argument as for net neutrality: to protect innovation from incumbents. Search is like the last mile and Google is like a nasty pipe throttling ISP.
Google likes https for their own selfish reasons. Yes, it's still a good thing. But what Google really likes is that it keeps ISPs, hotspot operators, and others from enjoying the same ubiquitous traffic snooping they get via AdSense, Google Analytics, Android, Chrome, their CDN, etc.

It's nice that their goals align with something actually helpful. But don't mistake the motive. This extends their dominance in global snooping.
I don't know of a definitive public resource for this. I published a paper in IEEE's Data Science and Advanced Analytics conference on it back in 2016. You can find that here: https://dai.lids.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Pred_eng...

Additionally, my company (link in profile) builds a commercial product to help people define and iterate on prediction problems in a structured way based off of the ideas in that paper.
> to the east in China or to the west in California?

To the west in California. In China, Foxconn makes very little profit (ie. adds little value) for each iPhone they manufacture.

> I think we can spend years discussing where that value is created.

If you consider what would happen if Apple's EU sales operations were a separate company, it becomes clear which company would make the bulk of the profit (ie. which company produces the most value).

> From a purely practical point of view, Apple will only be able to sell their goods in the EU and pay no taxes on the profits for as long as they can keep finding another Ireland.

Why couldn't Apple just spin off its EU operations as an entirely separate company? Apple US would have a very strong bargaining position when selling iPhones - it could charge Apple EU a wholesale price which was very close to the retail price. Apple EU would therefore make very little profit and pay very little tax to EU authorities.
Yes, I was using the lowercase to make it stand out.
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> In the US people can’t clear student loans in bankruptcy. It’s a shame...

Maybe you could explain this to me, because I really don't understand. Why do you think that it's a shame that people can't just discharge substantial, otherwise unsecured government loans?

To me, the real shame is high school employees pushing college on marginal students. One of the few things worse than spending too much money on a not-particularly lucrative degree is spending the money, but not graduating.

I believe the graduation rate at Bellevue College, the biggest and best community college* in WA state is around 25%. I'm sure they're not unusual in that regard.

* It's technically not a community college, but for all intents and purposes, it is.
Cool presentation ... but there's a million ones like this. We don't need yet another basic introduction to machine learning, we need detailed practical studies of real problems.
This is the first time I've seen something amid all the wolf-crying about CIG and Star Citizen that could actually kill it. Crytek has a lot of claims, very likely reasonable merit for them, and more importantly: Crytek is desperate and needs the money. They have no reason to settle or back down.

As a "concierge-level" backer (I'm embarrassed about it too, don't worry), I have a lot of concerns Crytek may end up with some or all of my money. That being said, I've never assumed a "purchase" with CIG was more than a crowdfund, and if it dies, that's how things go sometimes. I'm not angry, I'm not panicking, and I'm not joining the "demand a refund from CIG" party that a few people like to obsess about.
That’s how markets work. Early adopters take risks that pay off when late-comers try to bet on a proven winner.
I had a Prof who insisted in pronouncing it LaTech.
The subset of creators who DO use Patreon as a paywall service seems to be the majority! Patreon pushes perks as a key part of their model, and it's always easier (thought not as ethical arguably) to restrict otherwise shareable content than to offer something naturally scarce (dedicated time, physical goods) to patrons.

But even though most creators do this artificial-scarcity paywall thing, only a small minority of them probably have even the slightest worry about freeriders. Most focus on continuing to be productive and don't stress out about the horror of some freerider "stealing" by getting around the paywall and then not paying. It's a pathological worry to freak out about that. It's healthy to just focus on all those who are happy supporters and want to donate.

Patreon screwed up by focusing their attention on the noisy minority who were not only using paywalls but demanding that Patreon make the paywalls stronger.

And while they come up with a non-stupid way to deal with charges around stronger paywalls, they show no indication of stepping back from prioritizing strong paywalls.
It’s misleading because it’s far worse than what you describe.

First they pay income tax to the foreign government.

Then out of what’s left the pay state corporate income tax.

Then out of what’s left they pay federal income tax, or the special repatriation tax.

Then the dividend what’s left to shareholders who pay state income taxes on it.

Then out of what’s left they pay federal dividend taxes.

A little old retiree in California is lucky if they don’t lose 60% of their share of their Apple profits to taxes.
> things get abused in unexpected ways while clever rent-seekers embed themselves in incredibly lucrative positions that you never knew you were creating

Don't forget the swelling of superfluous administration roles and salaries, including bureaucratic roles whose entire job entails manufacturing problems to justify the existence of their position. See: campus diversity officers https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/americ...
If they weren’t using Lumberyard, that would be more exciting, but CryTech claims RSI is, and some of their other claims are based on RSI having switched. They can’t have it both ways.
Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters
Philippine Congress gives Duterte green light to extend martial law in south
The overwhelming majority of student loan debt is government backed and eligible for some kind of income based repayment plan. There are four different kinds, but the most common two use a formula of 10% of income after 150% of the poverty level for the relevant household size. It is entirely possible to have a required payment of $0, before even getting into forbearance or deferral.

Car loans and mortgage loans are not comparable. It's possible to simply be unable to pay those debts. So there's every good reason that the student loan default rate should be lower than those.
Here are some points to consider as to whether blockchain is appropriate for your application:

Data on blockchains is by default, unencrypted, especially data that needs to be validated by the nodes.
Blockchains do not have inherent security against read access. You can control read access to some degree by encrypting certain elements on your blockchain but this can be compromised.
Not all information on the blockchain is true; data still needs to be checked and uploaded correctly and as such is open to human error.
No amount of time guarantees something will stay in the ledger. It is also difficult to remove data if required by law.
It’s not secure because it depends on the assumption that the blockchain community has more compute than the rest of the world.
It’s absurdly expensive to mine blocks to store data indefinitely.
Lack of government regulations for blockchain could impede growth.
In case people want some more insights look at my question I posted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15915520

There is a huge difference between the cryptocurrency blockchain and the enterprise-y blockchain. They are not the same thing which kinda confuses the whole message.
> a TV service that lets you watch "what you want, when you want, where you want"

I hope this means full on-demand and not the half-assed cable/satellite game of a broadcasting model with a DVR tacked on. I didn't become a cord cutter for the sake of a lower bill, but because I was spoiled by DVD box sets that I can (re)watch anytime at my own pace. Traditional channels are just grating to me now, and I have no idea why that model should be imposed on IP-based services.
Not to mention:
> Data on blockchains is by default, unencrypted, especially data that needs to be validated by the nodes.

Databases are unsecured by default -> databases are overhyped!
I'm not familiar with how the video is encoded, but maybe you have to be careful to make sure that the encoding doesn't introduce correlations between adjacent frames (you can imagine how P or B frames might have correlated noise, for example).

Also, I don't think you'll ever see Cosmic Ray interactions last more than one frame... the time scales for cosmic ray interactions are in nanoseconds, not ms. I suppose electrons could get trapped somewhere and diffuse slowly (that does happen in some CCD's, I don't know enough about CMOS sensors to know if that can happen), but that would happen with bright images in addition to cosmic rays.

In such a small sensor, cosmic rays should be relatively rare. To first order, you can model the number of cosmic rays you see as a Poisson process, which should be a pretty good source of entropy. You can even estimate the rate based on altitude / sensor orientation, etc. However, nearby cosmic ray detectors will detect correlated cosmic rays (from extensive air showers from the same primaries), which might hurt.
There's still a few bugs. Like clicking on the portfolio items doesn't show the content. But if everything else is stable and scalable, why not?
"In your favor" is how it is required to be implemented by law. You get the absolute best price on the books at the time it hits the exchange.

Of course that doesn't stop low-latency firms exploiting information differentials to get their bids in before your order makes it to the exchange, a process called front-running. It would be illegal for your own brokerage to frontrun you, but pretty much all discount brokerages sell information to third parties, which enables those third parties to front-run. Ever wonder why your Robinhood trades are free?
You have it backwards. "We don't know if a government who has the power to make our lives very difficult will have a problem with this, so we should be prudent and steer clear until that's settled."
An essay I wrote on that in 2009: "Basic income from a millionaire's perspective?" http://www.pdfernhout.net/basic-income-from-a-millionaires-p...
There was a day, not long ago, where state and federal spending was less than 15% of GDP. Now it’s over 25%.

We also benefit from investment. So why are we taxing it at such high rates? The real corporate tax rate should be zero to encourage investing in the US. You could raise as much tax revenues by taxing dividends and capital gains at ordinary income rates. Which also would make our tax system more progressive.
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It's quite a list, isn't it? Sony's aquisition of Ericsson, Microsoft of Nokia's phone business, which like Danger did not end well.
Except that Apple pays massive amounts of taxes, more than any company in the history of the world.

I shudder to imagine how much you think they should pay.
You’d hate our team—we force push to master (not just feature branches) all the time. It seems like anarchy at first but it’s not really that hard to deal with. Our situation is a bit unique though, and I doubt it would scale well beyond a small team.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gone

But good job attempting to shame unrelated people with unrelated "reading disabilities"* just to make a point you don't even have.

* Which ones would that be? Reading what you read "aloud in your head" with an actual grasp how to pronounce things? Any others you care to make up, or was it just the one and you thought using the plural would make it an even more sick of a burn?
Only in your narrow minded libertarian brain does that sound absurd.

Government regulation exists precisly for the purpose of making inter-personal relations more efficient.
Record high 262 journalists imprisoned in 2017: CPJ
It’s actually 24.6%.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/the-facts-about-apple...
Microsoft's login experience has been generally broken for years. Multiple redirects through different domains. Heck it uses Javascript redirects. In 2017. So your back button won't work. And it has a habit of just not working. I went to visit a public page on docs.microsoft.com and wound up dead on a white page on login.live.com because it decided I needed to be redirected to login. Just to view a docs page.
> how does this compare overall to the rate of default in debt for other purposes? how does it compare to car loan debt? mortgage debt?

Great question.
In the discussion they mention:

> The major limitation of our project was the opposing player. Of course, we would have preferred training against human players who play Melee professionally.

An alternative training method could be through the use of the 20XX hack pack [0], a mod of Super Smash Bros Melee that adds, among many useful features, an improved AI. Here's a video of the AI from release 4.05 in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzl5NXV5bHQ

The built-in SSBM AI is very noticeably different from competitive play, and the 20XX AI makes significant steps toward more human-like competitive play. It would be interesting to see the results if trained on these AI.

[0] https://smashboards.com/threads/the-20xx-melee-training-hack...
Nice. Just whitewash that it's everyone right? It can be like communism for waste. I barely produce any garbage at all, I'm obviously to blame for the polluted oceans just as much as Asians and Africans that don't give a fuck.
When I was in school the common trend they had was requiring some foreign language course for ALL students. It was sold with all the traditional rhetoric of making students more well rounded but at the same time you aren't getting more well rounded if you are adding an extra 1 grand to your student loan. It never got implemented though because they didn't have enough budget to implement it.

Mind you, this requirement was in addition to all the existing courses you had to take (40 for a BA degree).
Well its a series of actions not a combination.
It requires jumping though, which isn't listed as an action
Don't get caught up in "catching up" hype

Don't get caught up in hype hype
> If you really wanted to, you could take the 2006 source code and make a GPLv3 fork of Linux.

You certainly theoretically could, but maintaining, updating, and modernizing such a beast would be out of the reach of most people and organizations. 11 years of progress can't be replicated so quickly, especially when you consider you'd need to do it in a clean-room sort of fashion to be entirely aboveboard, which means many people who are already well familiar with the Linux kernel couldn't even work on it.

At any rate, I think your estimate of the timing is off: I found references to the "GPLv2-only" language in the kernel's COPYING file as far back as linux-2.4.0-test8, which was released sometime in 2000, and I didn't really try to go farther back.
That’s the point. Being unable to pay profits to shareholders makes your business very unattractive. If Apple had directly returned its profits every year, over 60% of their profits would be paid to taxes.
> If you promise everyone money for life, many people won't bother to create wealth

If you promise people they won't starve if they fail, they'll be more inclined to take wealth creating risks over safe career bets.
I assume the 'in excess of $75,000' figure is in there to ensure that a Federal court has jurisdiction over the action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amount_in_controversy
I'd take the "better sound quality" claims with a grain of salt, absent information on codec and bitrates.
It requires a shine, jump, and then a left/right dodge executed in a specific time frame, which makes it seem like it was programmed in. My guess is that they just wanted to focus on the deep learning and not get bogged down in Melee mechanics/terminology.
Alan Kay was wrong about him being wrong
1. It's mostly in-process.
2. Yes, there's a "pipeline" concept.

It's a quite a... quirky language, but you can[2] do pretty much anything down to calling C functions, etc.

PS. PowerShell is on Linux now too[1]

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-so...

[2] You probably shouldn't.
It’s actually 5 levels of taxation, and no treaty can change that. Foreign corporate income tax, us corporate income tax, state corporate income tax, federal personal dividend tax, state personal income tax.
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Read The discussion with Alan Kay in the comments
Alexandre Anzala-Yamajako posted interesting comments on this to [Cryptography] (@metzdowd.com):

> IMO a statistical approach based on taking a bunch of data a saying essentially "I don t see any signs that it s not random" is not a good approach for entropy seeding. The example is old but I could give you the output of an AES in counter mode with a null key and a null iv and no standard statistical test woud ever show you any defects while you have absolutely no entropy.

> You case is particularely worrisome for several reasons
1) you use a von neuman like extractor but you have also shown that your data is not only biased but also correlated
2) you don t seem have a model of your hardware source from which you could derive the output distribution
3) you do some wizardry to remove some correlation but nowhere show or prove that there isn t more corrolation to be taken care of or how
4) I didn t see in your document a justification of the fact that the manufacturer of the camera (soft and hardware) doesn t have more information than you and could therefore target defects in your entropy management procedure.

> You should have a look at the work of Viktor Fischer, David Lubicz, Florent Bernard and patrick Haddad. They invested quite a bit of effort to give entropy guarantees when using very specific hardware device.

Skibinsky subsequently responded:

> Alexandre, thanks for reading and suggestions! I will certainly check out your references.

> As it is probably obvious from the essay-style narrative, this is not intended to be a tight scientific paper, just our research log of first order ideas we coded up for minimal working prototype. You are correct on #1,#3 - current codebase doesn't addresses these issues. #2 is interesting, because besides wide variety of camera hardware that model should reflect, iOS camera parameters present us with an opportunity to create optimal hardware source. This is far from our area of expertise, so I hope somebody in open source community will pick it up from here and figure out both formal model and what physical settings will optimize the source.

> Thanks again for great suggestions, I will further emphasize impact of correlations & VN sensitivity to non-IID in final section.

> Most likely practical direction of course is simply use universal hash extractor instead of VN, since it relaxes a lot of requirements.
Ah that would make sense! Theoretically then, I suppose this could actually be quite a big chunk of cash in question - especially with all the allusions to how much money CIG raised for Star Citizen.
This is ruining America's future. That's 5M people who can't even qualify for a car loan now. The penalties for default are punishing. Even bankruptcy isn't a realistic option.

This is ruinous for these people. They'll be in their mid-30s or early 40s before they can pay off. Starting that late to build a nest egg, they'll never recover. There's going to be an entire generation that has no secure retirement plans. It will also be a baby bust. By the time they are stable enough to think about starting families, they'll be biologically incapable to produce. Nobody will be around to fight off invaders. We're seriously toast in 50 years at this rate.
>because debt is the same

No, not all debts are the same:
Debts That Cannot Be Discharged in Bankruptcy
https://www.thebankruptcysite.org/nondischargeable-debts