skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with 5% fees, Hussman himself is making money!

it's only the clients that are losing money

he just has to produce doomsayer screeds that are convincing enough to fool the clients. he's basically being paid to write dystopian fiction
Ask HN: Understanding AWS cost best practices
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AWSCC

This survey is a part of a survey series to understand the best practices regarding AWS and more.

I'll be sharing the results as well.
I have no idea why but there are video games (even fairly recent ones) that requires the compatibility profile. No Man's Sky and Dying Light for example.
>- didn't have any government backing or big institutional backing in case the price dropped from 19,000 to 11,000

in other words, the fed isn't going to bail you out?
The parent comment mentioned attending bitcoin meetups. How is my comment off topic?
Drama (Derek Sivers, 2009)
I was suprised to hear someone mention DOGE's market cap was over 500 million.
'The World’s Biggest Terrorist Has a Pikachu Bedspread'
So he brandished a weapon when his life wasn't in danger? Isn't that illegal?
Question to those of you who use JQuery UI: Why JQuery over, say, React?
Automated Testing of Brand Websites with Robot Framework
This is far from the bubble bursting
I have the feeling the NYT was feeling a little tongue-in-cheek with this piece.
There are a few people. Not very many. Most people in their 50s have very little savings - http://www.rothira.com/average-retirement-savings-age-2017 has a nice breakdown - baby boomers average could live at most 6 years on their retirement savings - assuming the eat rice and beans...

My dad was in fact laid off at 50. Everybody knew he was very careful to save a lot of money, so they always said "but you must have enough money saved away to retire by now". His response was always "yes, but I don't have enough money to get to retirement". In the 15 years between 50 and 65 his money is expected to double twice which makes a big difference to his retirement income. If he had started drawing at 50 would have much less money to work with. He needed a job to pay bills.
http://idlewords.com/about.htm
VR, AR, MR: Which Reality Technology to Choose for Your Business
Berlin has had dockless bike share since 2000; largely, I think, without these issues.
You could say that about any company that doesn't have crucial IP. It doesn't seem like you understand the value of a brand.

>Someone could clone the features and create facebook2.com, and everyone would flock to it.

This is flat out false. if it was actually that easy don't you think we would have seen it happen already? There are numerous social media platforms that have tried to dethrone Facebook and none of them have succeeded.

in addition, Facebook practically prints money through advertising, which very clearly has value (multiple billions of dollars a year).

I don't really use Facebook anymore and I don't work there but to think it's value is $0 is insane. I'm not sure how you can conflate a multi-billion dollar company with proven profit streams and the current hype in the current crypto market
The way to make money with software is to either have a good marketing team or to spend a lot of time doing it yourself.

But releasing a project and hoping donations will come in almost never works.
Which is back to bad UX.
There are many open source business models. For individual developers, probably the most viable one is to become a domain expert in a popular open source technology and then to find a commercial entity who uses that technology and is willing to sponsor some work on it, in exchange for having someone on staff who can help them use it much more effectively.

Not all technologies are suitable for this business model, and it is best if you are comfortable with permissive licensing. And you may wind up working more and working harder than colleagues who don't choose an open source route.

Nevertheless, there are big advantages: the job security that comes from having a good reputation in open source is valuable, and if you care about open source ideals, you can take pleasure in how much this sort of position allows you to spread them and move them forward in our industry.
You are comparing apples to... potatoes? The whole point of blockchain is that it is immutable and intractable. It doesn't try to be a DB, except maybe in some abstract sense. Whether it will revolutionaze industries or not remains to be seen, but dismissing blockchain as an inefficient DB is simply misguided.
How To: Running Node Apps on Amazon ECS
I look beyond the “there’s a crash coming” sentiment. In that opinion, he is like all other pundits yammering on CNBC: entertaining rather than enlightening.

What I like about his article is the insight — new to me — about the nature of paper wealth vs real wealth. He described it in a way that is useful and enlightening to me. The assertion that a security (stock, bond) is not an addition to net wealth — just a zero sum transfer between individuals over time — is a provocative statement that I will ponder for some time.
> I hope a 13 million dollar fine will inspire them to prevent this type of human error again. But given the size of Sinclair it's more a slap on the wrist.

Hell, the cut in corporate tax rates they helped get should save them at least that much - every quarter.
A few years ago I went to a place with that. I didn't have a driver's license with me, just a passport that obviously didn't fit into the card slot.

So the guy just looked at the passport and let me in.
It could also be Goldman:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-i...
His life was most definitely in danger.
I think you're injecting a false dichotomy here. The article doesn't address whether government or private enterprise is responsible for the problem, nor which one is better suited to fix it.

To your point though, have you seen any evidence that private companies are better or more cost effective at providing or maintaining water and sewage infrastructure?
> its basically social charity in form of a free app.

Sorry but that's almost comically out-of-touch with today's reality. If you've been paying any attention you know exactly what Google takes from its users in return for this "social charity".

Honestly, even calling it a "social charity" is kind of offensive to actual social charities. They're not giving away this data, or opening it up, it's entirely Google's property and they're actively putting up multiple barriers to discourage people from using the service without giving up their privacy, location data and everything.

Imagine a corporation using a "social charity" as a lure like that.

If that's a "social charity" then so is Facebook's thing with the "free internet" in India.
If the incentive systems are designed correctly, maybe the dancing and box-checking can result in a near-optimal state. I think most of us here share the notion that hardening systems up-front is the most cost-effective way in the long run, but that companies tend not to do so due to a myopic view of security as a short-term expense rather than a long-term investment.

I read a post with an interesting idea recently: entities are currently treating customer data a an asset, whereas they should be treating it as a liability. If the regulatory incentives are set up such that customer data is a liability, companies will find it most efficient to buy insurance. And no successful insurance company will offer coverage without performing their due diligence. If the hardening itself is not the cost center, but rather the insurance premiums, then then end result may be companies doing infosec the right way, just because it's the most cost-effective thing to do.
Just the inverse n-vectors applied (regardless of space and field strength or possibly just instantaneous field strength). Always good to be called out tho.
It’s a spectrum. There are companies that absolutely care with every fiber of their being, and those that couldn’t care less.

Now that “cyber” is a thing that can lead to a CEO losing their head, most companies are roughly in the middle somewhere. Sure, there will be a fall-guy and finger pointing, but it’s better to at least not be completely negligent.

“If the risk can be transferred to other parties” - that’s pontentially a business avenue OP wants to pursue. AcmeCorp can buy OPs shiny datascienceDefender(tm) network monitor.

A lot of tech-first companies (and don’t forget, some legacy companies are desperately trying to become these) care a massive amount about security, so there is definitely volume of work with people who genuinely want to improve the state.
Sounds like it is unregulated and they aren't following procedures consistently.

> And at the Disney lab last month, coffee and tea were available near one cadaver station. After a Reuters reporter asked if this were allowed, the refreshments were removed from the room.
Embeddable Common-Lisp C-Interop Demo
Banker confessed to running a Ponzi scheme, but was he hiding a bigger crime?
Yeah, maybe... but if that's the case, nobody on the Internet will be allowed to know about it. </sarcasm>
You are missing the "network" part of lightning network.

A "payment channel" only allows unlimited "transactions" between 2 people, the "lightning network" allows you to chain those together similar to an IP network where you can transact with anyone that has a route to you through anyone else. So if I have a channel open with my friend, who has a channel open with coinbase, who has a channel open with gemini, who has a channel open with you, we can transact over LN without opening or closing a channel.
The corporate nanny state is more then willing to let individual firms collapse (bear stearns). Your examples were a systemic risk, if those organizations collapsed there was going to be a lot of collateral damage.
That's a pretty different argument than the OP's about standards. Chrome is obviously a browser.
All projects are cool, and kudos on going down the open source route.

I'm struggling to determine what you're offering though? How many new real estate websites launch, how many are looking for a "RoR ecosystem solution", how many are genuinely losing out anything by being based on Wordpress?

If you think the niche is there, I'd suggest your monetisation strategy should be like most of the big hitters in the space: continue to give away the product, sell value-added services on top. Offer the hosting, devops, SEO management, branding and advertising, or something.

At the moment there's no compel, it's a solution looking for a problem (I'm not judging, built plenty of them myself, just without any sort of expectation someone would give me money for the sake of it).
That's a perfect statement. I wish the reality were as perfect.
Nothing but love. They are the ones doing it right.
> How much should the fine be?

More than the benefits of the act.

They helped get the corporate tax rate cut from 35 to 21 percent, permanently. A $13M one-off fine isn't going to eat much of that up.
as a fellow RoR dev and a real estate agent. My $0.02 is RoR isn't really the right tool for agents.

with WP, you get this huge ecosystem of easy hosting opportunities and addins. You can integrate your MLS directly with a wordpress app with no extra coding.

For the larger brokers, they often provide a web hosting solution for their agents to use that they built custom in house.

It is just too expensive to maintain and build compare to WP.
Hussmans scenario is far worse than 2008...more like the Great Depression x2

we basically don't know what would happen, but it's safe to say the rich might not be assured of a safe bearish trading market in a civil society
My other favorite security theater advice is locking an account after x number of failures. How could this used for anything but DOS?

Depending on the service that's being protected, rate-limiting to 5 minutes between attempts, alerting the owner, and assigning them a temporary username seems more reasonable countermeasures to me.
There's a chapter on this in Mary Roach's book Stiff[1]. The book was published in 2003, so this has been going on for a long time.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp...
The anecdotes I hear about "working-class" life seem to feature a lot of fisticuffs, but I can see the role of adaptation - as a necessity - in fostering wisdom.
Good questions. The target audience for now is developers. The long term vision is that it acts as a platform on which other real estate services can be built.

Maybe the title I chose makes it sound like I'm complaining or begging. I'm not - just a sarcastic dig at myself. I'm not expecting to raise much money but whatever I raise will go back into the project.

The opencollective is actually a great idea because it means I don't have to go to great lengths to prove that I will put the money I raise back into the project. What I raise and spend will be entirely transparent.
I believe there are courier services that help guarantee document delivery to the correct person, i.e. for sending/serving court summons.
more useful than a name https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=idlewords.com

N.B. if you click on the parenthesized .com you get a link of everything from that site
I think it's likely you were solving the Reynold's Averaged NS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds-averaged_Navier%E2%80... and dropping the turbulence term to get what you call "steady state".
Python does support type hints, though most people don't use it. Also, I meant self documenting on an algorithmic level, not at a data types level.
FCC Blocking a Law Enforcement Investigation into Net Neutrality Comment Fraud
Some call it 'crash', some see it as the long awaited dip to get in again.
Turned into? I think it's always been a huge unregulated casino. (BTW, I've been in bitcoin since 2011.)
What This Computer Needs Is a Physician Humanism and Artificial Intelligence
go on morningstar (or below) and look at the chart for the entire life of the fund, you'll see that he had periods of massive outperformance

http://quotes.morningstar.com/chart/fund/chart?t=HSGFX&regio...
document.querySelector('#k2Container').style.color = 'black';

and the blog post becomes almost readable.

Other than that, nice intro.
You want Brave, which is based on Chromium. They raised $35 million in an ICO and plan to disrupt web advertising.

Has a built-in wallet to pay content creators with cryptocurrency (-totally optional.

Browser: https://brave.com/

Basic Attention Token: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Further to this, one of the main concerns for Lithuania (and other Baltic states) is energy independence from Russia. Ignalina made them a net-exporter of electricity, but now almost 70% of electricity is imported, mostly from Sweden. Gas and oil mostly comes from Russia, and all national gas companies in the Baltic states are largely owned by Russian companies.

As you say there is no reason for another plant to be built in the area now, but it'll also mean the Baltic states most likely end up purchasing electricity from Belarus. As they have strong political ties with Russia, that doesn't really help their case in becoming more independent.
And they couldn’t just autoscale the login servers in the cloud. I remember the login servers were always an issue after down time.
I'll bite, because I could use more insight. As far as I can tell, he references daily bars—to see the effect that you referenced, I had to reduce the bars to ~ 3 - 15 minutes.

Otherwise, the pattern looks quite the opposite to me. Am I missing something? If not, could something like that somewhat reasonably be applied to trading at that time scale? Seems like a good way to never get any sleep!
Too bad we don't know when they will pay off. A friend of mine just bought a house for $250k from someone who bought it in 1998 for $70k - 6 months before selling they refinanced for $225k. (this is all public information if you go to the right courthouse - he knows this because it is in the title).

Which is to say there are some people who don't have their house paid off yet, but will have it paid off before they retire, and then live rent free (but with other bills and taxes). There are other people who will not have anything paid off.
There are lots of good reasons to do open source when you don't expect to make money for it. However, for some technologies there are definitely business plans which can work and yield higher returns than donationware: open core, consultancy, sponsored development, etc.
I do not underestimate the amount of control they have.

Their share in the bank was was determined in 1998 on the basis of the states' population and GDP, and adjusted since.

Please by all means do me a favor and educate me on the amount of control a country like Slovenia exerts on ECB monetary policy with its 0.3% capital allocation?
That's a weird set of colleges attended. 7 degrees, with Stanford and Full Sail both in the mix?
Better to stay away from Bitcoin
> They're much simpler at every layer, have a singular vision, and designed for normal users rather than by programmers for programmers.

Many programmers seem to forget other programmers are users too.

Just because I am a programmer doesn't mean I have to endure software that thinks a PDP-11 coupled with twm experience is the climax of UI/UX.
Selling traffic via background pop ups is a common method for streaming sites to make money, likely they kick back some of this revenue to feeder sites like the one mentioned. See here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-intern...

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15915564
HN has a favorite pastime: dismissing tech that has demonstrated incredible utility because it’s lacks some kind of ideological purity they demand.
Because there's an expectation that you can use gold to buy something else you need.

This expectation may not hold, but whatever the post-apocalyptic world settles on first will likely be there to stay for a while.
The cowry was used as an international currency for thousands of years and wasn't backed by any government. All it was was seashells that were a limited supply resource. In major usage, it was used all the way from Africa to Hawaii. I think most people look at currencies with an incredibly narrow view of history.

^ Worth noting, that this is relatively modern history. It's usage stopped as a currency in the mid 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, some african countries still accepted it as taxes
In my 20s and 30s I loved an OS I could hack around in and play with. Now I just want my freaking email to work and the computer not to blow up every time there is an upgrade. Most people are like that. Linux on desktop is neat and all but not compelling as an alternative to “works well enough” for non-tech obsessives.
There's an old point and trick about
linear algebra and a lot more in
scientific and engineering computing:

The point is that it is very common to
need to take inner products of two
n-tuples of numbers.

E.g., the inner product of 3-tuple (a, b,
c) with 3-tuple (x, y, z) is

ax + by + cz

The trick is to accumulate the sum of the
products in twice the numerical precision
of the input data.

This should not be too expensive since the
products are usually in twice the
precision of the input data anyway.

So, the data being added is already in
twice the precision of the input data.

Why? The main problem in numerical
computing is precision, and the main cause
of problems is subtracting two large
numbers whose difference is small.

In particular, for an inner product, it is
common for the two vectors to be nearly
orthogonal in which case there is likely a
lot of subtracting where the difference is
small.

So, in the OP, I was disappointed to see
that the precision mentioned was only 32
bits and 64 bits. IMHO, in linear algebra
computations, 32 bit precision is
essentially useless. So, our data should
be in 64 bit precision, and an inner
product should be found with 128 bit
precision and, likely, then rounded to 64
bit precision for storage out of the
processor registers and back in main
memory and the memory of the software.

I was disappointed in not seeing 128 bit
sums.
I wrote this about the absurdity of bitcoin's (and other naive cryptocurrencies’) finite amount of money a while ago, and have posted it a few times in threads (so please forgive me if you have already seen it). I try to explain in layman's terms (I am a macroeconomist) why finite-supply (thus deflationary) and non-fractional-reserve-banking-enabling currencies are toxic to the economy.

https://medium.com/@jamesjunghanns/my-0-00000173120-btc-a-pr...

I specifically mentioned BaseCoin as being a reasonable and macroeconomically valid currency.
Applying machine learning to mammography screening for breast cancer
yes.

Data Science can be applied in many different ways, (somewhat) Recently LightCyber was acquired by PANW [0] and I believe that if you are in data science that may be something that tickles your itch.

if I may give advice, asking a more specific question to a search engine may also get you ona path with additional information. 'cyber security' is a pretty large umbrella and much of it may bore you while only a small handful is interesting... so try to be more specific rather than say 'stuff'

[0] https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/secure-the-network...
Fund managers are just scammers - plain and simple. He loses his clients money, he makes money. He earns his clients money, he makes more money. Either way he wins. It’s all sales and bullshit.

Source: worked at a hedge fund
Predicting that a downturn will happen is easy. A downturn will probably happen if stocks are significantly inflated (by some reasonable measure). Predicting WHEN is the hard part. He's just 10 or so years off the mark :)
I think these funds are useful as a risk hedge — there is some non-zero risk every year that the economy will collapse. If you invest in a fund that will help offset some of that risk by performing above average in a downturn, you might want to do it as part of a portfolio strategy.

Nobody should be putting their life savings into one of these. Hedge funds like this aren’t for that; they’re a risk management lever that gets set according to the economic model an investor is using.
> It is impossible for an algorithm to "illegally" discriminate

An algorithm is a set of steps given to it by a human. If the human can discriminate then so can the algorithm.

In the case of ML, let's say you are making lending decisions and your data set consists entirely of the race of the applicants. Obviously that ML algorithm would illegally discriminate.

Now, extrapolate from that extreme case and say that you feed your ML algorithm a whole bunch of random data points about your potential borrowers.

How do you prove that your ML algorithm is not making its decision based on data points that are proxies for race?

If you don't have an answer to that question good luck with the swarm of lawyers who will be suing you into oblivion.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew no longer requires VR headset
Social media has dramatically wider penetration, Facebook's algorithms are vastly different, and the malicious actors have figured out what works well. It shouldn't be a shock that the coverage has changed as a result.
Their are several types of Influenza, but most cases last less than a week and 1/3 of the time people have no symptoms.

So, being really sick for 2-3 days is not uncommon, though your right that many other things can cause similar symptoms.
Maybe they are a problem in Shanghai, but they seemed to be doing great in Xiamen when I was last there. The city made parking areas in every block that you should leave them in, and people generally seemed to do so.
First of all, all text messages are in-the-clear (at least for the service provider). Second, this seems to be a service that is targeted to end-users and itself uses the API of one of the big "cloud telecom" providers.

If you want API access, I would suggest bandwidth.com, Plivo, or, Twilio.
The Once-Upon-A-Time Magic of Adding '.com' to a Company's Name (2014)
Setting up psql
Only a few of those are resistant to tarnish and shiny.