skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its in connection with BT Section B and later DB pesnions

https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2017/09/25/bt-goes-to-cou...

This switch to CPI was bared a few years before for British coal - the two schemes of arrangement differ in a very minor way - that a lay person would say where identical
About a year ago I looked into buying a large number of Wemos Minis and selling them on Amazon FBA, more as a capitalist experiment with my kids than to make real money. Turns out they're priced very close to optimal for selling there with minimal profit. In other words, you're paying for the convenience of Prime shipping, but nobody is making a killing off your $7 purchase.
I just got an Arduino Mega beginner plus 37 sensor kit for xmas. I'm really excited to try out some of these different tiny SoC gadgets, especially looking at trying to build a basic hand-held tricorder since that has been an obsession of mine for a while. I also want to try out the mesh networking with either the ESP8266 or ESP32.

All my gifts were bought from Amazon, mostly for the speed of shipping and arrival. But I may just look closer at aliexpress or banggood to see what they have.

Thank you for sharing the link!
I worked closely with Eric on the data science team at Facebook for years. He was always the guy who would pick up everyone’s slack, and take care of all the loose ends.

He was the guy who set the bar at a height most of us would never reach, but that made us all work harder and better.
Tayda and SmallBear market to the hobbyist maker. They stock common ICs and components, and don't mind small / single unit orders.
You had to upgrade to a X when a 8 or a 7 was available - or even a new battery for $80?
show me an uber that can do the trip in 35 mins :-)
I was talking about food. Sorry if I was unclear!
I wonder how many days have ever stay in beijing?

As one grew up in Beijing and lived for 26 years, I can definitely say that comparing Hutong to Indian slum is really really ignorant. You can ask anyone in Beijing, they will tell you that many people live in Hutong is one group of the richest people in Beijing. Nearly all people live in Hutong are Beijing natives, and their houses inside the hutong are called "siheyuan" which are among the most expensive real estate in beijing. Most "siheyuan", houses inside the hutong, are build decades ago and owned by local natives for long time, and its value increases much fast than other real estates as nearly all located in the center of beijing. I just check on an agency site, the cheapest house are more than 5 million us dollar, and many are more than 10 million us dollar. only the most successful people in Beijing will buy those houses. (if you know Chinese, you can check on this site or by google translate: http://esf.fang.com/house/i34-kw%cb%c4%ba%cf%d4%ba/)

if you have ever been to, you can have a visit and talk to people in hutong, you will know how wealthy and happy like they are.

and there are also many other statements in you text are totally wrong and with groundless prejudice. No employer will threat to report to police because of work’s identity, you may again ridiculously think beijing as America. Beijing is china’s capital, more than third people there are not locals, they also don’t need any documents to go to and stay in their capital.
And nowadays, most rich people in beijing are not locals, they come from all over the china.
Unfortunately, that's how the Google File picker works. It needs permission to read files from Google Drive even if you are looking for a specific Mime Type (Google Slides in this case)
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
Yes, basically. Without walls, you really arent't solving the same obstacle avoidance and navigation problem. The line following maze is the same search problem, but not the same sensor-integration/locomotion problem.
Cryptocurrency Analysis with Python – Buy and Hold
That's like saying because there are an infinite combination of ways to stamp a physical coin, and that the USA could instantly switch over to some random stamping of a coin and the value of the USD would drop to zero at the drop of a hat...

The value bitcoin has is in it's trust. The miners do not give it that trust in total, only in part.
_Not_ recalling an ad doesn't mean that it isn't actually in your brain. Professor Robert Cialdini sited research in his book "Pre-Suasion" that the most effective ads were those that were _not_ recalled by users. You're effected by ads more than you think or recall.

* https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Revolutionary-Way-Influen...
For anyone curious whether they should download and read the book, this is a high level summary, the cliff notes of applying ML/AI, aimed at managers. It won't do much for a programmer looking to learn neural networks, but it will give you an overview of what they're being used for and some things to watch out for if you have ML programmers on your team.
Marathon ends in 6 hours, if you are very slow. And pacing is considered very important. Pacing does not mean "running as fast as possible from the start".
Who defines who is the strongest, who is the weakest?
Reverse proxy w. ssl in less than 100 lines of code
> Left and Right are really commonly used in this situation in ML-descended languages. It’s not the worst thing.

Are you talking about Either types? OCaml and Haskell at least both call car and cdr fst and snd respectively, but they're rarely used.

As for left and right as names, I don't think they're any worse than car and cdr, I just don't think they're substantially better.
Here are some additional resources to get you started with TallTweets.

Sample tweet with the GIF embedded: https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193

Blog post explaining the app: https://www.labnol.org/internet/google-slides-gif/30763/

Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdIuzaFVH8
umm that's highly disingenuous.

If you accept cash -> banks have a fixed transaction fee (anywhere between $2 to $25 for any amount of money).

If you accept credit/debit/mobile -> there are atleast 2 transaction fees - one by the payment provider (generally % based) and one by your bank (fixed fee).
Oh boy. This reminds me of the utterly failed attempts of the last 30 years to eliminate programmers. You know, when companies were telling us that creating business software will be as simple as connecting a few boxes on a flowchart, and their intelligent snake oil-driven framework will automatically translate that into working software. Even managers will be able to do that, right?!

Funny how we ended up needing more programmers than ever.
In contrast to the other comments here, this isn't a machine learning problem. Also, not a lending problem. The big issue is privacy.

As I was reading the article, everything seemed fine until I read the lending companies were stealing private info. Calling contacts, threatening violence with location tracking.

If lenders want to use battery life and typing speed as as credit indicator, that's up to them. (By the way, the NY Times probably has that wrong. Battery life and typing is likely used for for user tracking/fingerprinting. Imagine a bot borrowing small amounts 10,000 times pretending to be 10,000 different people. Lender's trying to combat something like that.)

Over-borrowing is a user error. Mr. Bai needs to take some responsibility. (I fully realize people blame the financial institutions, including for the credit crisis in US in 2008... we can agree to disagree on that one). Also, there are ways to protect over-borrowers, such as bankruptcy laws and statue of limitations. Bankruptcy laws can allow them to start over. Statue of limitations can put an end to the credit collector hounding.

When it comes to privacy, this article will be an example I'll be mentioning to people when they say "I don't mind the surveillance, I have nothing to hide. I'm not breaking any laws".
Money is similar to the peacock's tail, the main difference being inheritance, social stratification make it so it matters very little to the individual how much money he starts with due to the fact that you'll be immersed in a social circle with people from the same economic strata, thus to differentiate yourself you need to make more money, otherwise you're a loser.

Wealthier males work more because they have access to better paid, more fulfilling and more prestigious kind of work.
Poor males work less due to the fact that they have access only to shitty jobs with shitty pays and no prestige, so, for a lot of poor people, working may actually degrade your quality of life, since you won't be able to match or improve upon the lifestyle your parents provided you.

Women work more because they need to, either because they have children to take care off by themselves or because they've grown up watching the suffering of their mothers due to the oppression on females in society, and they sure as hell don't want that for themselves.

People mostly buy stuff to show off, and then lie to themselves that it is because they like the stuff they bought, illusion of power. Being well off doesn't really matter socially if people don't know about it, bragging is seen as offensive so people do it in an indirect way, by purchasing expensive stupid shit, so that they can feel they're not just bragging, they have "good taste".

People don't want to be well, they want to be better than others, and they'll seek to achieve that in the way that is easier and more convenient, which is vulgar display of power, since hitting people in the face usually leads to problems, that is now achieved through the purchase of excessively expensive items just to show you they can.
"What if we were fundamentally wrong?"

It's never a good sign when you've gone this long without questioning your own beliefs. Yes, it's possible to be wrong.
The fun thing with autocrats, they want everybody to be on short leash, on the distance of calling before eyes or local phone call.

So naturally, when they say they want to cap population of main cities - doesn't mean they're ready to delegate anything essential to 2nd tier cities! And they consider many many things essential being control freaks, so that's where you get additional growth.

E.g. in the USSR, the main filmmakers were in Moscow and SPb. Could you relocate them to e.g. Sochi as it happened with Hollywood in the USA? Sure, but would you be able to hold them as tightly? Hence they stay.
I've seen some strange downvoting here, but what's this about?

They simply argue that hate speakers should not be given as much time as their targets/potential victims/people not advocating hate, and their post is virtually white.

And none of the people who downvoted put their name to it by making an argument/reply/rebuttal.
Another possibility is LHS and RHS for Left Hand Side and Right Hand Side (if you want to emphasize the use of a cons cell as a pair rather than a linked list).
2017 year in review: How scientific discoveries from five years ago played out
> Avoiding the culture of dividing and collecting data based on race makes a society racist?

It certainly doesn't eliminate racism from society, no. It just makes it impossible to measure the effects of racism independently. Hence, the racism becomes integrated into the rest of the society.
The "UFO claims" mentioned by wallace_f above often describe objects that appear to defy conventional physics and aerodynamics, and the nature of those claims are what's being discussed, not UFOs in general. Specifically the link between the claims being made and the claims also made by adherents of the supernatural, neither of which can coexist with a universe that operates under known physical laws.

Assuming that UFOs behave as described, and are actual physical craft which can hover silently over a point with no visible or audible engines, propellers or exhaust, which can make arbitrary breakneck maneuvers or suddenly vanish over the horizon in seconds, as is often described, then you need an unconventional explanation for their means of propulsion. It's either antigravity or magic, but it probably can't be, say, VTOL or just really good rockets.
One common interview question I've run across is to write the code for a simple four-function calculator, the kind that you can find for a dollar or two in nearly any convenience store, right next to the pencils and erasers.

Coincidentally, I've previously posted here a detailed model/explanation of how those work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9456444

They're usually based on a 4-bit mask-ROM microcontroller running at several kHz. Very "simple" in relative terms to most computers today, and in hindsight I could probably write the code for one quite quickly, but I bet the 99% of programmers who haven't ever really given a thought to how they work in detail would struggle to come up with an accurate description in an interview.

Also worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302364
>This year I spent $10 a month extra to get the best possible screen and camera on a device I use hours every day. Not because it’s a status symbol. And very happy with my purchase.

And this is how they get people. You didn't spend an extra $10/month, you spent an extra $400 compared to getting the 8. I don't blame you, I think it's worth it, but that's a terrible way to think about prices.
Yes it's legal.

Are online retailers in Poland required to take cash?
Presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dUqVlZ6trU
Be careful not to make your "claim" on an altcoin that has a very low value compared to Bitcoin.

Why? Well, to be safe, you need at least on Bitcoin transaction [1]. But that means you'll receive a loss if those transaction fees are larger than the exchange value you get from trading the altcoin back to Bitcoin.

[1] This is to avoid exposing a still-valuable (within Bitcoin) secret key to an unknown altcoin client.
Nobody decides "hey I wanna become a slave". I would say the root of the problem is the lack of opportunity, not migration. Somehow, people rarely make an argument to stop all the rich people from migrating to orange county because they might overwhelm the infrastructure with the excess watering of their lawns.

>In order to raise the living standards of an entire area, you have to enforce issues like safe labor practice, minimum wage, vacation days, etc. Without heavy hand regulation in a developing countries, these things don't magically come at the kindness of employers. They must be forced.

And so I suppose there an no people working below minimum wage in a developed country like the US? Or maybe your solution of more regulation only works some of the time, and only in some cases, and is not a "must have" as you put it.

>but I'm glad Shanghai at least understands this is a problem instead of copying other Asian cities that have failed at this

How is what China is doing beneficial in any way?

"Ewww! Poor people! Slums! Ugh! They come here and mess up our urban real estate. Such an eye sore! Can we just get rid of them?"
This is a sobering article. We definitely aren't where I thought we would be. Especially on the social justice front. Some websites you aren't even allowed to talk about it, such as HN.
This parable ignores the fact that other individuals want to own alternative currencies.

If Rolex company manufactures a new collectable Rolex and gives it away to someone who already owns another collectable watch, this does not mean that both watches now have half the value of the original.

Furthermore, if I produce 1000 knockoffs of the original luxury watch and give it away to the Rolex owner, it does not reduce the value of the luxury watch either.

In fact, the value of the 1000 knockoffs plus the luxury watch is higher than the value of just the luxury watch alone.

There is still a scarcity of luxury watches, as well as demand for ownership of both the luxury item and the knockoffs.

As long as more individuals wish to purchase said commodities with fiat the commodities have value, regardless of if they are given away or not.
Tipler's Omega Point prediction doesn't seem like it would be compatible with the expanding universe, would it? Eventually everything will disappear over the speed-of-light horizon, and then it can't be integrated into one mind.
If there were a market for bad analogies for cryptocurrency, it would be inflationary.
It could also just be the phonetic spelling of "pew pew" in Russian.
No, I'm saying I chose not to work for Walmart.
You pay the value of your house several times over in interest, and even ignoring that, the value locked up in a primary residence isn’t good for much except moving it to a different primary residence (or leaving to your heirs when you die).
Concise (Post-Christmas) Cryptography Challenges
What's wrong with wireless? (Unless that means LTE or WiMax or some broadband tech like that)

I've always had FTTH, but at current residence (non-US) I have a radio bridge for the last ~500 meters - there's a railroad nearby so my ISP can't lay fiber directly to my house.

I've expected worse (esp. in a bad weather), but have zero problems whatsoever. Besides an extra half millisecond to what it could've been - which is insignificant - I have no issues.
Oh the irony of this coming from IBM!
did you see the author provide any evidence? the author say something you'd like to hear then you instinctively think it's logic. if you have known how ridiculous it is to compare hutong with indian slum by the author, you will know nearly all of what he said is bullshit. (see on my explaination on another reply to him)
It's been quite a few years since my college networking class, but am I wrong to expect this to just kinda work out of the box? The ESPs can already act as routers and the MAC/IP protocols should already insure packets get routed around correctly. How is it different from, for instance, hooking up several WiFi routers at home?

I'm curious about the challenges b/c I've been wanting to try to get a more long-distance mesh going with Lora. Some of the newer chips are incredibly affordable:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/10/13/this-ttgo-board-comb...
Being poor is almost universally a negative experience, and has been for virtually all of human history.

Noting the degrees of awfulness between various poverty cases does not endorse of any of them. This attack is lazy thinking in the extreme.
In the same sense that it would protect unconscious people from incurring enforceable debts?

A sane system would look at the incentives structure to devise cartel rules to encourage the individual behaviors that lead to the best group outcome.

The injured party desires swift and effective treatment for their injury. They also desire such treatment to be affordable, preferably at no additional out-of-pocket cost.

Onlookers may wish to help in the moment, but they do not want to incur any future obligations by doing so.

Medical providers want the customer brought to their facility, first to assist with the injury, and then also to be rewarded for producing better outcomes due to their care and expertise.

The move that makes sense is for injured parties and onlookers (they cannot know in advance who would be the unlucky one to get injured) to cartelize, and each pay an amount in advance so that the statistically predictable annual number of ambulance rides are all (theoretically) already paid for. And since it could damage the patient to delay care by attempting to verify cartel participation, it really has to include everyone, or ignore free riders. So the cartel becomes a branch of government, and it pays for ambulance rides with some form of tax. Then to prevent gaming the system by private ambulance companies, the cartel can either announce limits on what it will pay for during one ambulance ride, or it can run its own ambulance service.

And to further control costs, if they haven't already determined that it is an emergency with major traumatic injuries, the dispatcher can even just ask the caller if an ambulance is not needed. Most people can at least recognize if someone else does not need an ambulance, and maybe just needs an ordinary ride to the hospital without all the equipment and paramedics. The dispatcher can summon a cab, or Lyft, or Uber, or a bicycle rickshaw, or church bus, or shuttle van, or any other type of local transportation service, and pay their prevailing rate for a prompt, on-demand ride to some form of medical care facility. Since the patient would have to be conscious in order to get a not-ambulance ride, they could either wave it off, or tell the driver to go to their pick of clinic or hospital and have the ride paid for by their ambulance tax.

Other moves create perverse incentives to ignore injuries or hinder the care of an injured person.

Similar analysis indicates that hospital treatment for life-threatening injuries and other health emergencies should also be paid for out of taxes. The rest of the medical system could possibly operate under a different model, but I think most people would rather not be forced to choose between death and bankruptcy--for themselves or anyone else--when there's a dearth of time to think about it.
In poor countries iPhone X could be considered a status symbol but in US?
Why the recommendation for lead-free solder? It's harder to work with, the fumes are more poisonous than leaded solder, you shouldn't eat/lick either, and the amount of lead is harmless for DIY solderers. I agree that lead-free solder is environmentally preferable for mass-produced products that eventually end up in a landfill somewhere in Africa, but for a DIY project, I don't see the advantage. I'd love to be proven wrong though :)
He must mean $10 a month more for the iphone X, rather than the iphone 8.
I should point out that much of Quantum Computing is based on the foundation of reversible computing, so if you wish to get into quantum computing at any point, it is helpful to become familiar with reversible computing.
Also, I know it might be sacrilegious around here to suggest it, but it's also possible to program the ESP8266 with "javascript" [0] using Espruino [1].

It's worked very well in my experience, even just as a fun experiment to say that I could.

[0] Javascript is in quotes because it's not a fully compliant javascript engine.

[1] https://www.espruino.com/
I work out of my house. I rarely go out in public (perhaps once a week to the store,) and I couldn’t possibly care less if people see my phone. I see my phone hours a day. I take a lot of photos, read a lot of ebooks and do a ton of stuff on my phone. My X purchase has zero to do with “status symbol.” It’s a childish and ridiculous assertion that “status symbol” is a primary motivator for a phone. A car on the other hand is far more likely to be purchased based on what the neighbors think. It seems like every 5th car in the South Bay Area is a Tesla, but I have no idea what kind of phones they use. The reason the Prius had such a “distinctive” shape was because Prius owners just LOVE letting everyone know they drive a Prius — but I have yet to meet the person that makes a huge show of owning iPhone. X is literally one of the best phones available today — attributing that desire for ownership to something so trite as “status symbol” is clearly the work of someone who has yet to use one on a daily basis. It’s really great.
Cool idea! I think it's very useful for people who want to share slides but don't want to share the entire pptx file.

I wanted to make a GIF of another user's Google Slide, but with the webapp it looks like I only have access to my own slides, and only google slides. I whipped up a quick API to generate a GIF of any Google Slide URL or of any PPTX file available on the web: http://159.203.37.136/

You can use the API like this: http://159.203.37.136/?url=xyz&delay=100 which would make a GIF of the URL pptx file. For example, it could be https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13838392jfdjkfsd/edit... or https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samp... or any ppt or pptx url of your choosing. It works with any public google slides too.

As a sample, you can try http://159.203.37.136/?url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files...
Use Occam's Razor?