skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have an @live.com email. I think "live" was one of Microsoft's many failed services rebrands. Remember windows live messenger, windows live photo gallery? Lol
The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
> so that’s fun for any place that was relying on it.

Places can simply work out a monthly total the cost of CC fees and increase their prices overall (or on specific products) to recover that cost.
In the US people can’t clear student loans in bankruptcy. It’s a shame, I think, given the constant upward tick in tuition and lack of resulting careers. They can even go after the students parents.
> That's tautological.

No it's not. I'm saying you can fix the problem by modifying one constraint. Fix the cost of energy, and you fix your problem with energy wastage. It will make absolutely zero difference to bitcoin what the price of energy is. If energy is more expensive, mining will reduce, and bitcoin difficulty resets to the lower mining hashrate.

> Do you also suppose that we should reduce vehicle emissions by increasing the cost of gasoline?

Of course. It's ludicrous to think otherwise.
Valid is a binary condition. Either an address is valid and you will be able to send mail to it, or it is not. That is usually the sole reason for validating an email address. If a bug in the validation logic causes an unusual email address to invalidate then the code is definitely wrong, not the user.

If the PM specifies a requirement to filter out email addresses with a single character before the @ sign, then that's a different thing. Maybe there is a business requirement to filter out people who own a domain and give themselves a single character email address? In that case it should be explicitly written into the validation logic and not done as a side effect of sloppy coding.
Foreign cooroate income is triple taxed, foreign income taxes, then us repatraition taxes, the state income taxes. Then on what’s left sgarehokders pay dividend and state taxes.

That’s sextuple taxed.
Yea, all that's true, but Eli has a significantly easier job. A professional manager has to make a lot of decisions and still has to invest money even if they don't have any insightful ideas. On the other hand Eli will only invest if he gets a good idea, and if not, then no investment.
Deregulated popoff on net neutrality
tl;dr if you can't be bothered reading through all the legal fidgey widgey - Crytek is claiming CIG breached their contract by doing the following:

- Publishing Squadron 42 as a seperate game (licence was only for one game, Star Citizen)

- CIG fiddled with/remove Crytek's branding in loading screens etc (they weren't supposed to)

- Cryengine was not exclusively used for Star Citizen (apparently it also leverages Lumberyard)

- CIG did not provide bug fixes and optimisations for Cryengine (they were supposed to)

- CIG disclosed Cryengine "secrets" without permission via online videos, and also via collaboration with a third party

Not sure on the amount, the only dollar figure quoted is 'in excess of $75,000'. Not sure if that means $76,000 or $1mil though - IANAL!
I know of at least one bank that requires your password to have exactly one digit. Not one or more, exactly one.
> It learned to avoid the toughest AI built into the
game for a full minute 74.6% of the time

No results against humans, though.
>22.
On December 16, 2015, Defendants announced that "Squadron 42," a single-player video game involving space combat, would be sold separately from Star Citizen.

>25.
On February 14, 2016, Defendants moved forward with their plan for Squadron 42 notwithstanding their failure to obtain a license and began offering the video game for separate purchase. As a result, Defendants are intentionally and willfully using CryEngine without a license and in violation of copyright laws.

This seems to be the main point. They're claiming Star Citizen is using CryEngine for their new game, and haven't licensed it out to do that, along with the company behind Star Citizen distributing assets of Cryengine in various ways. They were also supposed to help in developement of Cryengine in way of bug fixes, and did not comply.

Crytek's GLA appears to be pretty far reaching.

>38.
On December 23, 2016, Defendants announced that they were using the Amazon Lumberyard video game engine for Star Citizen. The GLA did not permit Defendants to use any other video game engine in Star Citizen except for CryEngine.

>50.
On May 6, 2015, Defendants began posting a series of videos online titled "Bugsmashers." The videos contain excerpts of information from CryEngine that were confidential, in breach of the GLA, and should not have been shown to the public. The series continues today.
> Life sucks sometimes but it doesn't matter whether you merge or rebase in the scenario you describe, you need to test the combined version of the code. You can't just assume it is still working and whoever comes second needs to shoulder that responsibility.

Sure you do. But you're missing the fact that testing is in no way even remotely guaranteed to catch every error. If it did then projects that have tests would never have bugs, and that doesn't seem to even approximate the world we live in. (Why did I need to point this out though? Is this not obvious?)
The spending doesn't even need to be foreign. Apple can easily take out loans at interest rates near 0% as secured by overseas cash. The overseas cash is almost as good as cash in the US.
>> But then, I was one of the lucky ones who didn't have pink things and "pink is for girls" and "girls should play with dolls" pushed on her from a young age.

Personally, I've accepted that it's very hard to convince people of this. It's like Ouija boards and divining rods. People just consistently fail to catch themselves at it. And they often get very upset when you suggest that they might have bestowed their own gender stereotypes upon their children (not least because they believe those stereotypes to be damaging). I've lost count of how many friends have told me how their daughters always make a beeline for the barbies section at the toy store etc.

Well- they're kids. That's how sophisticated their understanding of gender is. What do you expect? We don't think twice about correcting other "natural" behaviours that we consider damaging ("don't talk to strangers", "wash your hands before eating" etc). So why is this "natural" tendency to follow gender stereotypes sacred and unassailable?

But, like I say- I despair of ever being able to get my point across to others about all this. If I ever have kids, we'll see how much better I do. 'Till then I just let it go.
Mildly confused:

The paper claims there are only 5 used actions, but I also observed wavedashing.

Also as an aside this is yet another in a series of not as cool as I'd hoped melee ML projects :(
How do you anticipate new college grads will fare?
The engine used to certainly be impressive. The company, though, had quite a bit of trouble paying their employees in the last year or two:

https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/10/13908156/crytek-employees...

They're more of a struggling company. But hey, at least they deliver a product.
> Cash costs money too--you have to count it, handle it, deposit it, protect it from theft, verify it's authenticity, make sure you have enough change, spend time counting change, etc.

Holy God. I might as well say it's all equally free, since when the heat death of the universe is done with, there will be no difference between something having existed or taken place or not.
It may have improved since the initial roll out. I had wanted to ditch my cable service for quite a while so I gave DirectTV a try when it launched, when service wasn't yet up to par and the interface wasn't any better than what Hulu has now. It maybe time to give it another look.
And before that, the grandiose ".Net passport"
I think one essential consideration that's been lost in the discussion is that Patreon can be used in many different ways. For some creators, it may be a periodic direct exchange of money for goods and services. Each month a patron pays $X and receives $X worth of either physical goods or some kind of service. For other creators, Patreon is a tip jar, where the primary product is released elsewhere for free, and fans can use Patreon to give recurring tips/donations, and through Patreon they at most receive some bonus rewards that are generally not themselves worth the $X they paid, since they are mainly paying in order to donate to a project that is external to Patreon. This latter mode of use is the one I, as a patron, am most involved with, since I donate to multiple web comics. I'm sure there are other modes of use as well that I haven't thought of or seen.

The reason this is important is because a one-size-fits-all solution may not be possible. For the case of physical rewards in return for pledges, charge-up-front is completely unnecessary. The creator can just say that the rewards will go out after they receive payment on the first of the month, so someone subscribing in the middle of the month receives nothing until the month ticks over. For the donation case, charge-up-front is useful, but not for the reason you might think. The main point is to prevent freeloaders who pledge, view the exclusive content, and then cancel without paying a cent. In this case, creators would probably be fine with pro-rating the first monthly payment after charge-up-front, or even just skipping it entirely. It's all donations anyway, so the point is not to extract maximum value from each patron, it's to make sure each patron is paying an amount that they are comfortable with, so that they will continue to pledge long-term.

My overall point is that the platform that is Patreon is abstract and flexible enough to support a number of different business models, which may have different needs with regard to charge-up-front and other features. And to get an idea of the full breadth of those possibilities, I think you just need to interview a lot of creators, and I think you'll find that the usage patterns are more varied than you expect. At the same time, I'm sure there's value for patrons in having things like charge-up-front work the same way across different creators' Patreon accounts, so that they know what to expect when pledging.
Academia is a great example of what happens when you try to create a "market-free" zone: things get abused in unexpected ways while clever rent-seekers embed themselves in incredibly lucrative positions that you never knew you were creating. See: student loans/tuitions, pay-to-read journals (another front page HN topic).

The student loan problem is a result of the generalized "prestige economy" that's driving the problems with journals (and whose failures include that cascade of replication crises). To see this, realize that the only reason so many people are going to university at all is because a good name on your resume is now a requirement for getting any reasonably well-paying job. See the parallels between that and how academics need good names on their CVs in order to compete? It's a prisoner's dillema where the cooperation-case would be that every person who doesn't need their degree for their career would drop out at the same time that every academic switched to open-access journals.
> The kept the cash offshore with the belief that they would eventually be able to bring it back without paying taxes. They started a multi-year political lobbying campaign to change the tax system.

So far as I can tell Apple is getting absolutely hammered under the terms of this new tax bill, so I'm not sure this is the case https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-03/multinati...
This is the classic bad argument of "determination and hard work" are the only means of success, falsely insinuating that anyone not successful simply just didn't work hard enough.

Back here in reality, you have lots of rich people who haven't worked hard a day in their life, who are incredibly successful by the genetic lottery of being born into wealth. If you have money, you don't have to work hard.. your money works for you.

Those on the bottom are the hardest workers, because they have to. Their lives are wasted because they didn't win the lottery of wealth, and struggle simply to survive every day. Imagine the quality of life increase if we took away that feeling of your very survival being at risk every single day..
http://password-shaming.tumblr.com/
"The agent has access to five actions to choose from: do nothing, left dodge, right dodge, standing
dodge, and Fox’s shine (essentially a shield that pushes opponents away)."

Possibly classified as left/right dodge?
EU blows my mind at so many levels. Many countries with different cultures and languages working together for common good of citizens.

I have really hopes for the Euro
Citation needed. That’s a lot of very specific numbers.
How to avoid cognitive biases when you get paid to think
Interesting to note that Lumberyard is a licensed Cryengine fork.
I don't think they're that great. The engine is great, certainly, but crytek as a game company not so much. They were at their best when Crysis 1 was made, where you could have your own servers and mod things and communities were built. But the second they could get into the Call of Duty userbase, they actually deleted all their mod forums, which included hundreds of thousands of posts and thousands of mods and configs for servers. All to 'make room' for Crysis 2 'modding', which was non-existant because you could not own your own servers, and server sizes were tiny.
Let's add another layer of abstraction and diversion, the trusty tax payer! /s

This of course, totally ignoring that government backed (everybody gets one no matter what) loans got us here in the first place...
Of course it flies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCagF0RUQQ
Exactly. If you wonder why education and health care costs explode: when the party deciding is not the party paying, that's what happens.

I hadn't heard of pay-to-read journals being an attempt to create a "market-free zone".
> The question is whether that is in any way related to the current price of BTC.

Of course it is. People paying money on foreign exchanges contribute to the price too. Foreign remittances are a fantastic use case for crypto (mostly to these same countries).

Also, what inspires many people to enter crypto, is general lack of trust in government and financial institutions. People choose to buy crypto rather than buying other asset classes or to hold fiat (this is a decision with a strong geopolitical basis).

> It seems like the large majority of trading is happening among people who live in other nations and who already have wealth.

Possibly, but thats besides the point. This argument is a refutation to several arguments that detractors make:
- there's no use case for crypto
- there's no underlying value to crypto
- crypto can't replace a fiat currency

> This isn't a technology that protects the developing world against monied interests. Its a technology that amplifies inequality due to an enormous difference in cost depending on when you joined the network.

As the Big Lebowski said "that's just like, your opinion man".

Joking aside, there are good reasons to think that crypto could in fact allow many people who are currently stuck outside the financial system to have access. This may me a small use case right now but its still early days for the technology.

I'd encourage you to watch: A. M Antonopoulos 'What Bitcoin Means For Unbanked Economies
https://youtu.be/xeSfDbbcN2c
This Photo Stole Our Attention and We Cant Stop Laughing
There is an even easier solution, toll all federal highways and replace the fuel tax with that.
Well that’s both fascinating and frightening.

Perhaps a recycling program or water filtration system can be introduced ? Am I over simplifying ?
That's no excuse. Eli can always park his undeployed capital in an index fund. So if he can consistently pick winners 80% of the time he'll still beat the market even if he has fallow periods.
Wave dashing is a combination of actions, not a single action.
a) yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_CK3N8mOXs

b ) you can probably assume, considering the vast tech industry in China, that if they haven't yet they will soon.

c) Why would you assume their operational and strategic capabilities are lacking in these areas? The Chinese have a very capable armed forces

https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-de...

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/issues/chinese-military
If you want to, sure.
Binance Large Blockchain Exchange Offers IOTA and Lisk Trading
I do think sites like arxiv are in the right direction. Also love the Twitter bots that tweets new papers. I make it a habit to read every new paper related to a field of my interest.
s/security researcher/Sharepoint admin/
> Prepare for 1.0 next release

So this will soon be a stable API? Great work. The documentation is extensive.

I am personally a big fan of toolz[0], which is clojure inspired. This object method chaining Scala inspired approach is different, and interesting.

It might be fun to make sort of comparison matrix of the difference in approach between this library, toolz, and the venerable fn[1] which also has a Scala influence (and apparently already implements the '_' lambda form).

[0] http://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1] https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py
Razorpay (funded by YC) is a competitor to Stripe in India.
Has anyone tried using it?
How was your experience?
This suit seems a bit weak in places.

For example they are sueing that they only licensed cryengine for one game, and yet RSI was planning on using it for two games. However the second game has never shipped, and RSI has switched both games over to the Amazon Lumberyard engine. This particular claim seems like it’s going to get thrown out.

My guess is that we’ll see a settlement in this. It doesn’t seem like this going to hurt RSI very much.
This is just your bias disguised as virtue. Bitcoin is a blip compared to everything that “wastes” energy.

By the way there is no such thing as a waste of energy. This isn’t soviet Russia, neither you nor the government dictate how one is allowed to use energy. As long as you have the funds to pay for it, you are free to use the electricity how you see fit.

If you’re reasonably concerned about the environmental concerns of how energy is produced, take it up with the producers. Stop technology-shaming.
I believe both are the case.
and NATO, in particular the USAF, can deploy in volume. The Russians field some interesting planes but then you find out they have six of them, only three flyable.
It’s harder to do in the US, but many European countries treat gains on art and real estate etc. very differently than gains on share prices.
I think there's lots of solid advice in this article, but this last bullet point is an eye-roller:

> Lack of government regulations for blockchain could impede growth.

i.e. "We're from the government, and we're here to help make your blockchain more efficient and grow faster!"
What are best resources for "defining and generating" labels? Any recommendations?
Would it be helpful if you can download the data and the chart in the form of pdf?
Microsoft's account system has had at least five different names; it's just "Microsoft account" right now, but it'll likely be called something different in a year or two the next time Microsoft does one of their gigantic "rebrand all the things" purges.
Well there are people on here that are saying literally:
- cryptocurrencies should be banned
- government regulation is the solution (with the implication that government is extremely concerned about the well-being of the populace in general, and investors/speculators specifically)
- the people investing don't know what they are doing and need to be protected from potential losses

If there's something I've left out from this particular argument please let me know.
The journals occupy a position where the quality of the service they provide has nothing to do with why a person chooses to do business with them. It's a market in that you can choose who to submit papers to, but the incentives are so misaligned that it doesn't work like a market.
> A) Are we sure it even flies?
Yes, you can just google it, and found video of public flight in air show.

> B) Do they have the very nuanced tech to handle the complexities of stealth?

According to many sources, China stolen the F117 debris, and apparently that's why US bombed Chinese embassy because of a "outdated map".

C) Most important: it's a team, not a pilot.

Y-20 the heavy weight transport aircraft.
J-16 the F-15E equivalent
J-10 the F-16 equivalent
Kj-2000 Kj-200 Kj-500 AWSACS air craft
Aircraft carriers
J-15 carrier jet

> What makes US Air Power so effective is the coordination
Beidou: equivalent to GPS

> meshed fighter groups
China is one of the leaders in swarm drones
Although by inclination what I want to do is rant about the iniquity of this kind of robo-debt in education, instead what I am thinking right now, is this: 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? I ask, because debt is the same, except in as much as student debt is in principle seeking a path to be able to repay it. The asset based debt invites a repo man:

you can't suck knowledge back out of a graduates head (ancient egyptian practices to the contrary)
Yeah the pool of people who believe $1 is somehow a significant source of rev
Fun little note: The afterburning turbofan engines used in this aircraft are supposedly similar in performance to the P&W F119 engines used in the Raptor. The company behind the engine is/was working on a high bypass version which aims to power the Y-20 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Y-20
Let’s simply tax the new BTC zillionaires, and pay down the student loan debts.
Building a mining rig with 8 GPUs
An interesting personnel anecdote I work in an industrial plant the diversity statistics here are pretty bleak - we have an internal social media site - mostly it is just used for company announcements and that sort of thing. The most popular post I can recall from recent memory was a picture of a pair of purple steel-capped boots and a bit of a blurb that one of our suppliers was now offering a choice of colors. It generated hundreds of comments mostly along the lines of "wow how can I order a pair of those" a lot of the comments were from female employees the whole tone was overwhelmingly positive.

Now I'm a male and hardly what you would call fashion conscious I wear steel-capped boots because it's a safety requirement I couldn't care one way or the other what color they are. Does offering brightly colored safety equipment count as pinkify-ing my workplace? At least some portion of people seem appreciative of having the choice available.
I am not yet on ProductHunt - I am a bit afraid to post there yet, haha :) Do you think the product is ready to be on PH? I grew the traffic mostly via super niche Facebook groups actually (like SaaS entrepreneurs for example)
There's a reasonable point that from the time they started developing Squadron 42 to the time that they switched to Lumberyard, they were illegally using the engine. Additionally, it's been suggested that the "engine switch" was in name only/an attempt at evading the license fee.

If in discovery, they can prove CryEngine is still in use, as opposed to actually being properly rebased on Lumberyard...

There's a lot here, and Crytek has a lot of different claims. They only need one or two of the claims to stick for it to hurt.
That assumes the person wasn't working too many odd jobs and hours to scrape by, so that they did receive a decent education.
crazy pills. I hope they at least cashed out some.