skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! If you have more time to look for the original, I would find it exceptionally interesting; however I understand if the keywords are lost to you.

Can you explain roughly what the quantum corrections were?
Companies issue shares. These shares are listed as a liability on the company's balance sheet. Each share represents a liability to the company because it entitle its holder to a share of any dividends paid by the company.

The intrinsic value of a share is the net present value of this future stream of dividend payments, not its current market price. OP's point is that the market price of a share can be significantly above its intrinsic value in periods of irrational exuberance, such as now, creating "paper wealth" that doesn't really exist and which will evaporate when the speculators head for the exit.
Is it that sitting is bad, or that not walking is bad? Is this clickbait?
I think that's probably a majority opinion. Star Trek's reach always exceeded its grasp. There are excellent episodes and very good seasons (mostly of TNG and DS9) but I don't think I know anyone who'd go to the mat for any of them as consistently excellent.
Isn't it you responsibility to push adblock in your kids?

Firefox for Android can block ads... But yes, it's much harder with tablets and phones..
> we are to start phasing out C and write modern OSes in safe languages.

Linus Torvolds probably has the best answer to why not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t0gfy/linus_t...

"When I read C, I know what the assembly language will look like."
Check your math.
Comments like this inspire me to reach HN’s 500 upvote floor just so I can downvote you.
I think most people who've commented on the OKC post here and on their blog, are missing a few points:

1. Names can be faked. I don't see any long term and practical way for OKC to enforce real names (as FB and G+ showed in the past). So this is really a non-issue.

2. Photos are much more problematic because it's assumed that one cannot search based on a photo. A 5 second Google Image search on profile pictures from OKC however shows that a lot of people re-use photos they post on various social sites. It takes one of those places to have your real name next to your photo and you're identified! Google Image search is just the tip of the iceberg. It's getting easier and faster every day to compile database of photos and run a AI algo on it to recognize faces.

Any company who boasts protecting privacy of its users ought to find a way to protect against facial recognition.
Let's not bring whataboutism into this. The problem overwhelmingly and vastly disproportionately affects women. Yes, men are affected too, but if we have to start anywhere to address the problem, focussing mostly on women and less on men would solve most of the problem.
So we checked into a hotel today and my 4 year old decided to try TV for the first time. His was initially frustrated with the time it took for him to find a channel he thought he would like (Disney Junior). He had to hop through a ton of channels and missed a few kid friendly channels as Ads were playing on them.

Finally he found Disney Junior, and then the whole ad thing started. He was so frustrated with all the ad breaks, he switched off the TV. Enough said.
Showcases are generally $24,000, but one showcase is typically more valuable than the other. There may have been a bit of memorization by both players!
Very difficult to lose 75%. Takes skill. The psychology of traders in any market, especially amateur traders, is such that loss aversion kicks in much stronger and quicker than they realize and many traders will get scared and sell during short term lower % price drops before -75% could even happen to them. Some exit after -20% losses, some hold until -50%. When the moon door opens, losses on the way down are usually spread among many traders trying to catch a falling knife.

The burned traders phenomenon could become a problem for the bitcoin community though few will talk about it. As even if the price recovers after a drop the people who thought they could trade it and lost money when they sold during a short term drop often leave the market and don't return. The same phenomenon happens in the stock market, and stock trading is a ginormous industry compared to bitcoin...amateur traders lose money trading stocks, they leave the market and never return. It's a problem..cue up the next E-Trade baby commercial ASAP! [1]

The Bitcoin big money now knows they need to control the volatility and spend hard and fast on marketing their trading platforms to new people constantly. And that's exactly what these guys behind the scenes appear to be trying to do. Hence we end up with articles like this one: Bloomberg writing about "Bitcoin Traders Claim..." that's basically one interview (at a coffee shop) with one random dude in his early 20s who trades bitcoin in his spare time. Who is the target audience for this 5th grade book report journalism? The churn will be huge.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hashPaU7Dpk
Sei lankan war was “led” by buddhist monks and their hatred for hindus
I don't know. It might be a unpopular opinion, but I am okay to be locked out if I forgot my password to my email. I prefer that to weaken security, and complex processes to sign in.
While I don't disagree with you that beyond 64 bit precision is often useful, be careful with overgeneralizing that point. Many applications are just fine with 32 bits or even less and benefit greatly from the associated speedups, hence the proliferation of GPGPU computing (where single precision has a huge advantage). Neural networks are the popular examples, but plenty of physics/engineering simulations (molecular dynamics (particularly with symplectic methods), lattice Boltzmann hydrodynamics, etc.) are on that list as well.
Thanks for the kind words. My next priority is to add issues to GitPlex, and then builds. I worked on a continuous integration system for more than ten years, and have some lessons learned to be put into GitPlex.
> Throughout history US would come to aid, today its about bowing down to communist human rights abusers like China for fair trade and access to its market.

Unfortunately, US role in Bangladesh(East Pakistan)[1], Vietnam and South America shows they do it so only if political/economic reasons align.

[1] http://warisboring.com/in-1971-the-u-s-navy-almost-fought-th...
"Weak" here does not mean numerical approximations. These are mathematicians so any quantitative approximation would be bounded o(1) otherwise the work would be meaningless. One should think of "weak" as in constraints, for example constraints at lower spatial resolutions (but precise).
Yeah, I was selling software as retail off my own storefront: I never tried to make it ad-supported, I hate that. Patreon seems like it's a cut above trying to be ad-supported or Youtube-supported. That doesn't make it comparable to operating on a true retail basis selling merchandise… but it's definitely better than 'everything being free' and trying to roll your own support system.

I get people mad at Patreon wanting to send me money by PayPal. The thing is, if you do that, where are you going to be next month? I already know what total chaos of income and not being able to set expectations is like. It's called 'selling at retail and trying to get a next hit product'.
The point about Dropbox being cheaper because bitcoin is so expensive is wrong. Sia-tech has p2p object storage that’s 20x cheaper than aws.

But I would still trust Dropbox more :)
> "36 TB per year"

Satoshi made a similar argument in Nov 2008 in response to a claim about Bitcoin not being able to scale:

"The bandwidth might not be as prohibitive as you think. A typical transaction would be about 400 bytes (ECC is nicely compact). Each transaction has to be broadcast twice, so lets say 1KB per transaction. Visa processed 37 billion transactions in FY2008, or an average of 100 million transactions per day. That many transactions would take 100GB of bandwidth, or the size of 12 DVD or 2 HD quality movies, or about $18 worth of bandwidth at current prices."

"If the network were to get that big, it would take several years, and by then, sending 2 HD movies over the Internet would probably not seem like a big deal."

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6navjt/very_first_disc...

Note: this was before the DoS attack in 2009 where hackers tried to freeze the network by creating blocks of uneven or massive size. Which is why in Oct 2009, satoshi imposed the 1MB block size limit (I presume was intended as a temporary stopgap measure) to prevent future similar attacks.
What an absolutely foolish reply. Do you shop on Amazon? Do you use Google search or Gmail? Do you watch Netflix? Do you use a credit card?

You have a thousand data points mined per day - an Echo or Google Home are no different from any other service that you may be interested in using. Especially as these devices are not "listening in" until their keyword activates them.
That convinces me never to use Google for a primary, trusted account. It's just too easy to get locked out forever.

It's worth taking some time to think about how you will recover from various disasters: forgot password, drive crashed, lost phone, etc. IMHO the best approach is to have one account with a hard but memorable password, that you can access from any device, and use to bootstrap the rest of your accounts and passwords. Maybe also keep the password on a piece of paper stored where you will know if it has been accessed.
Trying to figure out how to market my side project. https://www.printpost.co

Any suggestions welcome.
Ha, I thought I was disagreeing, but having gone back and re-read just now, I realize I must have misread because, yes, I agree with you 100%. I was also partially expressing general grist at the naivetë of some of the other commenters.
Agreed, but just by the references, I assumed the poster was referring to the commercial rap / hip-hop world, and specifically to the popular club oriented segment.

What the poster said is pretty much true all around for anything in the most commercial space of music. "Country" music for instance has some pretty blatant product placement, too... but again, largely only at the most commercial space only (the radio-friendly arena-rockish style). Jason Aldean for instance got an endorsement from Coors, and actually changed a song lyric in one single from "Shiner Bock" to "Rocky Tops" as a result. (https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/1084513...). The same applies for the club friendly / arena side of electronic dance music. A large percentage of them will include product placements, particularly for club lifestyle type products and/or liquors of some sort.

Overall, product brand "name drops" have increased heavily in the lyrics of top pop music over the last 20 years (http://www.meiea.org/resources/Journal/Vol.14/Gloor-MEIEA_Jo... page. 48).

I personally find this type of product placement annoying, and prefer other strategies where companies gain presence without intruding into the music too much. (Red Bull IMHO is an example here: their focus tends to be on content marketing strategies, a strategy that has worked out well for them, and at least in music I find much less annoying).
Alloys, composites, raw materials, you can identify them. If they have atoms you can identify what is in them. Now there could be weird materials that are hard to more difficult to identify. But you need a more compelling argument.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Meh nah I talk the same way in person as I do online...might explain why I have few friends...hmmmmmm. Meh fuck it.
Remote Work Digest: December 23, 2017
> If the most dramatic consequences you had to face from the past decade policies, you're probably pretty affluent among the Greeks

I don't live in Greece any more but no, I was earning a slightly above average full-time wage -which when you don't have a family, pay rent or care to go out much might feel pretty affluent, but if you have to support a family or pay rent because you don't want to live with your parents any more, is not.

My perspective is also the perspective of many people I know in Greece that are definitely not affluent (some earning sub €800 per month):

If you're lucky to have a stable job, you are working all day long to get a half-decent wage (that over the last decade lost 40% of it's effective value through tax increases, health contribution increases towards a completely broken health system, pension contribution increases -that you literally don't trust that you will get back, inflation, etc) and can't even do whatever the fuck you want with whatever little is left of it! They are strong-arming you to keep it in banks, transact through banks -accepting their fees and inconveniences-, restrict how much cash you can withdraw or spend, even limit what you can buy! They are still blocking Greek card transactions outside the country for a series of types of business such as gambling, pornographic, jewels, works of art, auctions, etc (which of course they fail to detect properly, so you get plenty of false positives :p)

Is this the most dramatic consequence considering everything else I just mentioned? Probably not, but it's the one that constantly reminds you that you're not in control of the rewards of your own labor. And it's also the one that you can suddenly avoid for good, giving them the finger, thanks to cryptocurrencies.

> Call me a socialist if you want.

Socialist policies can work great if a government is competent and honest like perhaps in Scandinavian countries. The problem is that no-one can guarantee when and for how long a government will be like this.
> using heroine to intoxicate one’s self is very victimless.

I have never used it, but have lost friends to it. How am I not a victim?
And yet, Max Howell wouldn't see himself as a PM. Even if that would be where he could be the most help to Google! He'd want to be an engineer who makes up for his slight deficiencies in academic Computer Science with an excellent understanding of what Google's customers want.

Apologies to Max and Google if I misrepresented what you wanted out of this.
Recently saw this one on HN as well: https://darekkay.com/dev/flexbox-cheatsheet.html
Yet if we compare the regulated drug market to the unregulated one (mostly perscription painkillers vs marijuana) the regulated market has arguably worse outcomes and higher costs.

Also, Kurz Gesagt has a great video on addiction--it's not as simple as blaming the problems/externalities solely on drugs: https://youtu.be/ao8L-0nSYzg
And Yemen. The US cannot solve every conflict in the world but I wish it would atleast stand up against the thhird party countries that backs vile murderous regimes. Russia in Syria and China in Myanmar (and they are also starting to influence other countries in Asia). We, the oppressed peopleof this world, needs a stronger US. Not the one retreating as under Trump.
Penny-wise (2001)
What if there are no electrons, because there are no atoms?

The suggestion that all these alleged weird alien materials are “alloys” is just a placeholder for “looks and acts metallic, therefore made of metals.”

But if we happened to be dealing with real alien tech, that’s a naive and unscientific assumption. We already have people thinking about how to build programmable matter with variable properties, and it’s a fair bet we’ll have working examples within 50-100 years.

And there is no possibility that conventional x-ray diffraction will reveal how that kind of matter works.
A Key Lesson from the 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell the Truth,' One Historian Says
> inside help from someone that has contacts in Google

The same is happening with Amazon right now; sellers getting kicked out by default and there is no way to get hold of a real person, just talking to some machine learning bot. Real people simple don't matter anymore.
GitHub game-off 2017 winners
Except Bigelow is a well known alien crank. Occam's Razor suggests that it's a politician throwing a rich guy a bone for his pet fantasy (with taxpayer money, of course, though it's really the recognition rather than the money that matters here), expecting more personal support later.
Jim Parsons has won four Emmy awards and a long list of others for his portrayal of Sheldon Cooper. You may hate the character and the actor, but he’s objectively not a terrible actor.
For those who took the bait, I'm thinking they're missing something. For what it is worth, I've met quite a few young people who credit their interest in studying medicine and biology to shows like CSI (which I personally loathe).

Anyone have an anecdote of young BBT fans being drawn to physics or math?

Sure, it's a comedy, but it's not like there's a watchable Star Trek turning a new generation towards STEM. Mr. Robot, probably just breeding more anarchists.
Religion is at least somewhat of a personal choice. You can't change your ethnicity. It's the difference between hating people for exercising their freedom of religion vs hating people for being born.
It isn't that most people want to discriminate based on race and economic policies are a way to do it, it's that people want particular economic policies and direct racial discrimination was historically a way to do that.

Late 60s South, the voters who used to vote for racist Democrats switched to racist Republicans even though the economic policies were complete opposites.

I think that says a lot.
It's a mixture of things - partly the Burmese seeing them as Bangladeshi immigrants taking their land and causing problems, partly religion - the current problems kicked off when some Rohingya formed a slightly ISIS like organisation called ASRA and started attacking police stations and army posts (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41521268) and partly made worse by facebook of all things (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/asia/myanmar-govern...)
Europe's Message to Silicon Valley: Tech Is Not Special
Is there a good watering hole for self-hosted home assistant development? I was at a Micro Center this evening and saw a AIY Google Voice Kit (not sure if it phones home) and a Matrix Creator (very interesting) plus a lot of other doodads that one could use to build same.

I just don't want to spend a year trying to cobble together my own software.
> Throughout history US would come to aid, today its about bowing down to communist human rights abusers like China for fair trade and access to its market.

I'm not sure this is an accurate assessment of US foreign policy in any period. I'm sort of scratching my head to think of any significant US interventions that weren't self-serving. Beyond the original Manifest Destiny expansionism, there's a rich tradition of US fillibusterism[1], gunboat diplomacy, proxy wars, banana dictators, coups, support of the drug trade, the list goes on, and on, and on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)
The present value of future dividends is highly dependent on the terminal state of the company, and the future of the economy. So I don't find wild fluctuations in stock prices to be proof that the market is inefficient or over/undervalued because the far future is very uncertain.

Every stock chart is an invitation to assume false precision, because unlike a scientific measurement there is no explicit +/- range. But the true value must have a range of uncertainty, and it can easily be many orders of magnitude.

Also, every time I see the phrase "irrational exuberance" I am reminded that while there was a bubble in the late 90s, at the time Greenspan famously was worrying about the market in public, the Dow was around 5,000 or so IIRC, a long time before the peak.
No man rules alone.
It’s important to note that the old email addresses still work. New ones are assigned to the icloud domain, but my @mac.com email still works and that was a (free) service when I signed up for it in 1999. Old @me.com addresses also remain functional.
> The US cannot solve every conflict in the world but I wish it would atleast stand up against the thhird party countries that backs vile murderous regimes.

Frequently, that would require it to stand up to itself.
> Leaving your bitcoin in the hands of Coinbase is needless risk because your coins are just as accessible and just as easy to steal from Coinbase as they are to steal from any other wallet accessible via the internet.

This is so transparently false.

Coinbase has a security team that I lack. They have experts in the field that I lack. They have insurance for their holdings that I lack. They have the infrastructure and knowledge to keep cold wallets secure that I lack. None of these lacks can be easily remedied by an individual like me.

They have no ability to use my coins at their "whim". They're a US corporation in a heavily regulated space, money transmission, subject to a whole bunch of laws, both state and Federal. I have far more recourse against them than someone who puts a keylogger on my phone and siphons off my holdings.
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. No

The device is not "Listening In" and yet, remind me how you "activate it" to make it "Listen In"?
Here's a little psychological trick I always wanted to try, if I ever got to the showcase showdown on TPIR. Suppose the other contestant passes the first showcase to me, and I believe it is the lower valued of the two showcases. I bid one dollar. If the other contestant is not paying attention, they just might bid two dollars on their showcase. That strategy works on contestant's row when everyone is bidding on the same item, but it will fail during the showcase showdown, because my bid of one dollar will be closer to the actual price of my showcase than their bid of two dollars will be to the actual price of their showcase.

I don't know if I would have the guts to really try it but I think it might actually work (assuming the host didn't interfere and tip off the other contestant).
> Imagine you have spent much of your digital life for the last 12 years on Google. You rely on their mail and calendar, Google Drive for storage and Google Photos for your photo archive.

Like I've said in the past here [1], if something is so important to you, you need to treat it as such. Continuing to use a service that offers no guarantees, availability or even continuing access to your account is a sign of ignorance, when you rely on that service so much.

Now ignorance is not the fault of the user. It's primarily the failure of education. There are multiple deficiencies at play here:

1. Lack of knowledge of general population about significance of terms of service, and literacy to read and understand them.

2. Lack of regulation to enforce service providers to provide concise and less technical terms of service.

3. Lack of clear options provided by the service provider for users, so that if a paid option with guarantees is available, it's easy to sign up for and use.

In case of Google, you can, for $60 a year, have an email account under your own domain (which by the way decouples you from Google if you wish to move to another provider in the future), a 24/7 phone support and other goodies. The issue is the number of hoops you need to jump through to set that up, making it inaccessible for the average user. This is Google's fault.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6839142
That's true, but irrelevant. GDAX takes a fee on every trade. Therefore it's a negative-sum game, not zero.
I know what you mean. I watched a show the other day that was actually made to air on network tv. I'd forgotten about tv reality. Most shows being made nowadays don't feel like they're set in tv reality any more. It was weird to watch something so firmly made for primetime television as opposed to Netflix or something else. I can't remember the last time I watched an actual 'television' show. It gave me this odd nostalgia and made me realize just how much things have changed. I also got this weird unrelated sense of relief that i'd never have to watch a movie on TBS ever again. I don't know why this thought came up but all these memories of watching butchered movies as a kid came back as I watched the happy go lucky, fcc friendly 'tv' programming.