skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, as any EULA shows us, it's not that hard to hide in plain sight, as most people won't read those disclosures and they'll be such a fire hose of information, that it will still require people to reveal this info and get people motivated to do anything about it, if they can.

I'm not saying those aren't valuable (I think we should have them), and I agree that premature regulation can choke future growth, but I think we would need some fundamental regulation to actually prevent the worst fears.
Maybe exclusivity limits on ISPs that lay the groundwork so they can recoup costs, and even collect some rent, but still allow others to compete on that groundwork.

I'm sure this had all been debated ad nauseum, and there will always be some reason why any decent idea will be argued against. But I think if we can try to find some way align ISPs and customers incentives, it'd be far better than the current situation.
my PS4 is set to auto update. I only use it about once every 2 or 3 months but I've never had to wait. I just get 20 notifications when I turn it on about all the updates that happened.

my switch acts about the same.
>> And the Git staging area should be an opt-in feature.

Thousands of yes! `git commit -a` just doesn't add the untracked files it is the most annoying misfeature of any version control system. Oh, I added unwanted project directories? I would then just remove them and put them to `.gitignore`, or create a `.gitignore` prior to `init`.

Of course I could just alias `add -A . && commit -m` on every machine I ever connect to for developing. There's a great, practical solution.
> Apple has a long history of favoring the cutting edge over the tried and true.

This is categorically false. Apple has always taken ideas poorly executed by other companies, learned from their mistakes, and shipped a vastly improved product built on technologies that others failed with. Their new building is practically the only exception. Even things like depth sensors on phones have been attempted by Google (project Tango) with little commercial success.
Well it is rude so...
Apple as a company is now comfortably resting on its laurels. Management is slowly atrophying. Tim Cook is an MBA with a logistics background. Jony Ive is preoccupied with building palaces. The company is now in its Steve Ballmer-Carly Fiorina moment.
Agreed. The touchpad is the last thing that's holding me back from going back to Windows. I have played with Dell XPS, Surface Book and Surface Pro and they are still far away from my Macbook.
It's clear that there will be a successor to Git some day, in the sense that Git is a successor to SVN (yes, I know Linus's viewpoints on SVN). But the successor won't be a "better Git" just like Git isn't a "better SVN".

The driving features of Git's successor will be unrelated to Git UI gripes. If Git's UI gripes were important enough, people would just be using Mercurial (which has it's own quirks). The biggest problems I've personally seen with Git are the same problems you see with other VCS, where two people change the same file, and one commits the changes first. Now you have to merge the changes and sometimes it's a pain in the ass when you just want to submit your changes and go home. A better VCS isn't going to solve that!

I'm still glad that Git delivered me from all the merging problems that SVN had, although I've heard that SVN is a little better these days.
Pokemon is the most compelling property that Nintendo owns. It's a little baffling that they haven't embraced it as a console rpg
This is basically correct. If the thing you're buying gives you a claim on the future profits of an organization, it is probably a security under US law.

If the thing you are buying has only its intrinsic value, then it is a commodity.

An example would be a baseball card (intrinsic value only) vs. a card that entitled you to some fraction of that baseball player's future income over the course of their career. The latter isn't really something that exists, although it probably could, but if it existed it would probably be some type of security.
Okay, don't ask customers, but do think about it a bit. They don't want yet another smartphone, physically embedded in their car running crappy, insecure, counterintuitive, out of date software.

They've already got a smartphone. They already know how to use it's UI. Did you know people drive different cars sometimes?

They don't want or need to be able to order Dunkin Donuts from the crappy, insecure, out of date smartphone welded to their dashboard. If they want Dunkin Donuts, they'll order them from the smartphone they already have. Glueing it into the dashboard doesn't make it any safer to operate underway, and if they've got to stop anyway - they'll use their smartphone. And it isn't going to make you many dollars off those Dunkin Donuts referrals.

It seems they would like a way to hook up the smartphone they already have to the car speakers, and possibly even a microphone, built-in somewhere near the driver. Ideally multiple ways, since phone makers keep changing the game.

Maybe add some physical tactile control buttons, for volume for example. Maybe that attached device needs to be controlled. You might be tempted to put a touchscreen in there. Don't.

They've already got a touchscreen, which is unsafe to use while driving. Give them more knobs and buttons they can use by feel. If you don't give them another touchscreen.. they won't use what you didn't give them.

If you must put in a screen, make DAMN sure that the software (and hardware!) behind it is as relevant as you think you can manage for the expected lifetime of the car. Like 10 years. How about 20 years? This might seem like an opportunity for planned obsolescence - it isn't. Just do it well, and do it right.

If it absolutely must be more than just an audio+mic jack and some buttons then:

* make it as secure as you can make it, and can be updated, securely (thumb drives with checksums are good, wireless, not so much).

* it is as bug-free as you can make it, and has the fewest possible features you can get away with - on the assumption that your customers will always have a <= 18 month old smartphone in their hands

Sure - we can rip out the crap from the factory, and we will, but that is just more waste. Please do it right and maybe save us all some hassle.
I found it interesting that the employees of Renaissance finally convinced him to boot Robert Mercer. Simons has accomplished great things in mathematics, investing, autism research and math education. But he has also enabled a Bond villain to undermine our social fabric with disinformation, and I don't think he gets enough credit for that.
very few people on hn actually know about quantitative finance - so they co-opt folk wisdom in order to be dismissive. all quant firms are secretive - it's not like de shaw or jane street or two sigma publish white papers. rentech has been successful for decades. if they were doing it using inside info they would've been caught a long time ago.
The big results as far as I understand:

- Image recognition

- Winning the games computers hadn't won already

- Incremental progress on translation. Plus translation that doesn't need as many domain experts

- Self-driving cars (with related automation applications)

Of image there, image recognition stands out as the big leap and the rest are relatively incremental. One of the things with the other applications is that they provide a recipe format that's more systematic than previous approaches. A lot of vision approaches pre-deep-learning were very hit-or-miss. Deep learning has a lot of black art involved in effective training and a lot of time investment but my impression it is more reliable than what came before.

Any other examples welcome
I'm surprisedly the staging-area hate. Does it really violate peoples' assumptions? I like the ability to make a big, complex change and checkpoint stable portions (subsets) of the work as I go.
Those are “tried” but they don’t qualify as “tried and true.” Something remains cutting edge until it ultimately fails and disappears or is a success and becomes mainstream.
I agree with you, brevity, as far as quantity of code required to accomplish the goal is concerned, but too many times brevity is confused for compactness, which to me, is the opposite of what you would want with these.
Youtube blocks you from uploading videos if you post stuff disagreeable to them. Net neutral.

Google locks you out of all your email and everything google-related because you used a name they thought was fake. Net neutral.

Facebook blocks you and flags your posts for speaking your mind. Net neutral.

Apple deletes apps that compete with them from the app store. Net neutral.

Reddit has banned me from /r/india, so I cannot post in the one sub that's in any way relevant to Indians. Net neutral.

I understand completely why you don't care about the "repeal".
Tips for criminals: if you don't want to get shot, change your vocation.

> Beyond the numbers, interviews with dozens of current and former police officers, shooting survivors, activists, and independent experts described the devastating impact of police shootings on families and communities

How about we start talking about the devastating impact of crime in the communities to begin with ?

> There’s a common misconception that police will try to disable a suspect by aiming for the legs or arms, [...]

This is Hollywood fantasy. Hit an artery (running along the legs or arms), and the suspect will bleed to death in minutes.

> Bruce Franks Jr., a protester in Ferguson who now serves as a St. Louis representative in the Missouri legislature, said cops in his city shoot first and come up with reasons later.

Too bad, in the case which made Ferguson relevant, it was established that Michael Brown tried to wrestle the officer and fired his weapon several time in the patrol vehicle...
GIt is only as complicated as you make it. You don't have to use all the features :)
The issue, as always, is bugs.

I remember back when feature detection was gaining steam as the preferred alternative to user-agent sniffing, and Safari had a showstopper of a bug that meant preventDefault was present and callable but didn't actually do what preventDefault was supposed to do. So you had to fall back to sniffing for Safari to work around that (by hooking up a different event listener with a 'return false' instead of a preventDefault call).
Alternative view - I used to know a local bank's small business manager. She had a good idea who was hot and who was not, and in our area the tea rooms were insanely profitable.

These were light meal plus tea places of no notable distinction or interest - except that they were in a prosperous, quaint, and touristy part of the UK, on a significant A road.

They did very well indeed from a combination of passing trade and regular customers, even with plenty of direct competition in the immediate area - there were maybe eight of these places within a quarter mile of each other.

Rents were relatively low, minimum wage labour was easily available, and the ingredients were generic and not very expensive, but prepared with some skill, so the food was better than average, but not exceptional.

A number of owners set up successful businesses and handed over the daily running to the staff. They'd literally turn up once a day, collect the cash from the till, and go home.

There were some failures, but owners were more likely to leave because they moved - often abroad - than because the business failed.
It depends on which form of the EMH you subscribe to. I.e. weak, semi-strong, or strong.

As described in this article by Cliff Asness, https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b14zbgrj5pflsc..., empirical research by Asness and others has shown there is strong evidence of “momentum” in markets.

RenTech and various other quant shops employ a number of strategies, among them momentum, arbitrage, etc.

Edit: also worth nothing that Asness was a doctoral student of Eugene Fama, perhaps the most famous proponent of the EMH.
Does anyone have any idea about why these rules would be secret?

The only thing I can think of is that YouTube is not confident in their guidelines & categorization, and does not want to defend these choices publicly.
Likewise, I have had the 13” since it was released and absolutely love the keyboard, it’s never failed me once.
of course they refunded the $1k. They didn't pay for the 3 months of going without a car in West Los Angeles nor the 3 more months of having to wait if I ordered again.

I really wish the laws were such that I could more easily get the car directly from the factory like Tesla, no middleman. I know with BMW you can actually order a car, pick it up in Germany at the factory , drive it around Europe and they'll then ship it to the USA for you. No idea how much extra it would cost and not sure I want to drive in Europe vs taking public transit but at least I'd get my car

https://www.bmwusa.com/european-delivery.html
This may be sacrilege on here, but at my previous job I really enjoyed TFS. It's been awhile but the workflow felt a little more intuitive than git. And some of the merging features were nicer.
The rules to flag videos is here:
https://imgur.com/a/uTLTS

and they seem quite vague. Stuff like "Regular TV" is not something many people can understand.

That said, is there a way to find the demonetized videos?
You can use Git for things other than open source software development.
That has less to do with Moore's Law and more to do with Apple putting underpowered hardware into its desktop products. For example new Macbook Pros have been very underpowered on day one which is why many professionals who need powerful machines for work have been complaining (basically saying Pro in the name is meaningless now as it's just a normal consumer laptop with average performance, not a powerful workhorse for professionals such as engineers and designers it used to be).
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I learned C and the Unix kernel from Lions’ Commentary. I still have a licensed original copy. I should find a good library for it. The Computer History Museum already has a copy.
Real estate is where corporations go to die, regardless of what they were originally making.
Isn't it mostly just shifting existing Apple employees in Cupertino a couple miles to the new building? Regardless, it is Cupertino's choice to add more housing or not, not Apple.
You can in some countries. Here in Japan, it's faster to call phone support and ship it in to the service center yourself since that's what all the authorized repair centers are just going to do anyway (none of the ones near me fix Mac hardware on-site) so you're cutting out the middle-man.
> Either way, you're not going to get around that proving general program properties beyond very basic ones is very difficult to automate and very challenging to do manually.

What are you considering basic? Would proving that matrices of the form vv^T/(v^Tv) are idempotent (for a fixed ) be basic? That is about the maximum I would be shooting for this language to automatically prove.

Additionally, for many assertions it would make sense to be able to fall back to a runtime check if it can't be proved easily. If you want to prove something more advanced writing, out all the steps of the proof as assertions should make it trivial to do the automation.

> Have you tried existing theorem provers?

I have used Coq. I have actually written a first order logic prover (which only worked with single variable predicates).
That's not a bubble. That's a bubble  (just kids having fun)
And you're the founder/CEO; what a coincidence!
> I figure that would probably have the real ship arriving probably sometime in my old age

Why would that be? Shouldn't the mother ship be not far behind this, depending on how much they've decelerated since detaching?
Why wouldn’t others have approximately the same incentive as you to not form a trust link to a liar?
As an ops engineer - yes, very much so. I hardly ever have problems with applications written in go, but there’s no way in hell you’ll see me installing something written in nodejs, mono or php.
>>why is a mortgage broker on the south side of Chicago expected to have enough innate technical knowledge to qualify Bitcoin as an investment, but not for an NYSE-listed stock?

Nobody should do risky things with systems they don't understand. Accidents can and will happen in these cases. And besides these sort of things happen enough number of times that most people can easily see the 'scary action at a distance' thingy happening here.
It was limited to local access for people using the default settings, though, since ARD is something you have to explicitly enable in the system preference.

Not that this isn't a bad thing, but it's vastly better than a remote execution exploit which is default-enabled.
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I dont think this is the case re: RenTec, but it does seem to frequently be the case for hedge funds more generally. Look into SAC Capital.
It seems telling that in the interview where Ive refuted the criticism he said "it wasn't built for you" and then only talked about how much better the new layout was for the design team's workflow.
Personally, the problems I have with git are related to the fact that none of my coworkers use git. If I mess up my repo I don't have anyone to look for. The experience with mercurial is exactly the opposite. I never needed to look for "experts" to solve a problem in mercurial. hg help is all I needed. Consistent UX and safe and powerful VCS is all we need.
> A better VCS isn't going to solve that!

It might!

I feel like a "language aware" VCS would be able to help a lot in this area.

I know there are 3rd party tools that can do this, but if a VCS came along that natively knew about some languages it could unlock some really cool features.

Imagine instead of your VCS storing the text source, it stores the AST! Language aware means it can also integrate tightly with language package managers.
All those skills and expertise have been lost in the 45-odd years since anybody used them. The old saying "Use it or lose it." has a good basis in truth.

Besides, there isn't any money left. It's all gone on useless wars instead.
No, your definition is based on the textbook definition of speculation, i.e., that the owner values the thing not because of its intrinsic value to him but only insofar as he can sell it to someone else later. As Kadin points out, the actual definition of a security is (basically) a claim on property or future profits, which is logically distinct.

A tulip can be speculative, but it's not a security. A non-transferable share of stock is a security but it's not speculative.
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Playing the Switch with my wife and 2 boys is family time. Currently Mario Kart, but there's more than a few other co-op split-screen games when that runs out.

We did the same with MK, Smash Bros, New Super Mario on the Wii. And the early years of my marriage involved a lot of time together playing Mario Kart (again!) on the N64. There might have been tequila too... we've eased up on that these days.
I mean, you could just checkout a new branch and push that, right?
I think the idea is that the best libraries for a language rely on the good parts of the language, so using those libraries will help you discover those.

For example, you have jQuery, which will expose you to DOM interactions, callback-style programming and even promises.
Cellphones have completely cannibalized the portable market. I will never buy a portable; I've got multiple generations of Samsung phone equipment happy to step into that niche
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>> They won't get their money out because of time-outs on the exchanges.

Timeouts and software glitches are hardly the point here. You can't sell it, unless you have a buyer. And you won't have a buyer because every one is trying to sell it. You are forced to hold it, because what else can you do?
That's encouraging to hear! I'm working on an ESP32 so it should have plenty of power to do it.
> any idea about why these rules would be secret?

Don't work for youtube, but I'm guessing they would be secret for a couple of reasons.

1. If made public, people could post violating content and work around it by making sure they won't get flagged with carefully crafted thumbnails, content etc. Ex: Take a look at the 'Nudity' section. There are examples of 'Partial nudity' in which a guy wearing underwear is deemed inappropriate because it looks 'Vulgar'. So one could, in theory avoid such thumbnails, and still post vulgar content in the video and get by their censors.

2. It would also open Youtube to criticism, just like the Facebook breastfeeding content was, a whiles back.
There's nothing wrong with using a 4-year-old Mac Mini. The thing that sucks is selling it as new, because how will it perform 4 years from now. It shouldn't be this difficult for Apple to keep up with basic spec bumps - unlike the iPhone, not every update has to be revolutionary!
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The new XPS 13 has a better camera position and a good touch pad but still not a great battery. It’s close. Maybe next year.
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It would be seriously sad if 20 years from now some other company will triumphantly move into Apple Park the way Facebook moved into the Sun Microsystems campus.
What about a surface book?
Anecdotally, being able to commit anywhere, without needing a branch name, is one of the biggest conceptual differences when we teach new hires Mercurial at Facebook.
Lots of food for thought in this article, but the part I find most interesting is his distinction between "soft" and "hard" forks. (Viz., are you "forking" in order to collaborate or in order to go your own way?)

If collaborate, it would be nice to lower the barrier to participation ... more like Wikipedia. I know that I often don't bother to submit a PR for small changes bc of the overhead of setup. Whereas I fairly often make small edits to Wikipedia changes, because it's so easy.
Could that be added as an extension? I don't know how extensions can work with remotes.
We have feature detection for that which solves the worst problems.

I'd much rather if the "version number" of the browser wasn't exposed, and instead something like a UUID that changes every "major version" for each browser.

This lets developers blacklist specific browser versions if they are a problem, without allowing them to say "only works on chrome" or "fallback to this on safari at any version".

I know this would be basically impossible to get everyone to agree on, but it's an interesting thought.
Everyone I know who uses Go complains about it. Every day you write Go code you will come across some piece of code that would be shorter with templates in C++ or using <algorithm>, or you could do it more simply in Python, or if you were really clever it would be a single line of Haskell.

And yet we keep writing Go.

By comparison, I'm a bit put off by the Rust community's evangelism, but that might just be my personal experiences with Rust community members.
I don't know why the author bothered to even respond to that Medium article. The Medium article starts with that Go shines as a systems programming language. He lost me right there: how can a language with a garbage collector and a runtime be called a "systems programming language"?
I've considered the surface book but it's Windows 10 S, so I'll stick to old Mac