skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The SEC has said they consider crytpos securities. That would mean the fraudulent price manipulation in the crytpo space (Bitfinex treating tether as USD and pushing up the bid) is securities fraud. This is probably why Wells Fargo stopped clearing Dollar transactions for Bitfinex.
Wouldn't even that go away if the claimant had a legitimate reason to believe the subject was infringing? ...maybe if an automated matching algorithm flagged it as such?
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> Uber used Greyball to avoid giving rides to undercover law enforcement personnel looking looking to destroy their business.

Uber used Greyball to evade municipal laws.
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He built a company with a culture of theft, harassment, graft, hubris...

He spent his time building THAT place I just described

Besides, ride shares isn’t that novel. The math exists. The market itself already exists! It’s just poorly managed

He found rich people to invest in “doing it at scale in the cloud.”

I don’t really give credit for outcomes that anyone with a bachelors in math, and web dev skills could come up with conceptually if not scale

The trickiest bit is getting money and navigating the administrative shitshow that is our society. But that’s easy when you just bribe ...pay... sycophants to do it

He even said himself he has a lot of growing up to do. No need to defend him as simply misunderstood

I don’t really give props for his accomplishments. He lived a contemporary life and got handouts from vultures who saw $$$ while looking at Travis
'The rest of it was spent creating one of the most impactful companies that the world has ever seen.'

I really don't think a marginal improvement on taxis qualifies for that title.
Not in favor of death threats, but if you are a public official and you do something so unpopular without a clear moral agenda (such as equal rights in the 60s) that it results in the vast majority of the people you ought to represent being so outraged that some threaten your life, maybe you ought to reexamine your policy choices.
There's a reason why cash is so unpopular, nobody wants to use it anymore.

The only people here who still use cash are those who have something to hide.
I witnessed a Harris hawk attack a mockingbird in mid-flight outside my window once. It was brutal, blood and feathers sprayed everywhere, though the mockingbird managed to fly off with the hawk in hot pursuit. At first, I was like WTF!? Then I became curious. I identified the Harris hawk based on my brief sighting, and discovered that they were native to Texas, where I was living, and one of their main sources of prey is the mockingbird.
Oh the opening credits? Almost every show - old and new - has them. It's not even something that is specific to Sci-Fi. So I don't really get why you're comparing that to 2001.

Anyhow I do agree they're often boring. The most annoying one is for House of Cards - it goes on forever. Thankfully you can usually fast forward the intros. Which I what I reckon most people do - at least for the longer ones anyway.
Could not agree with you more. London is a classic example at the moment! Even after 5 years of working in the city, most people struggle to buy a studio apartment in a bad neighborhood.
4th year Introduction to Mathematical Finance, but basically 101 in a sense.

Using a binomial model (essentially a random walk) and using 'the formulas' for portfolio calculation, you will find that in the 'long term' (in math, infinite, but 'a long time' in the real world') you will find that no investment portfolio will beat the Prime Rate, as this is what all returns are based off of.

It was just the results I saw from the course. I know one can get 'lucky' and beat the Rate, but overall, as a zero sum game, someone else has to lose and overall the group rate of return is calculated as...the Prime Rate.

Sorry for being condescending sounding; I thought this was common knowledege given it's taught in introductory finance.
Hah, from the article: "Scientific linguists have long understood that ability to speak a language fluently does not necessarily confer a linguistic knowledge of it, i.e., understanding of its background phenomena and its systematic processes and structure, any more than ability
to play a good game of billiards confers or requires any knowledge of the laws of mechanics that operate upon the billiard table."
>BOLD signal is really what you want

Thank you so much (I have no medical knowledge and that is some key domain-knowledge I've missed). How much correlation with blood flow is there ? Maybe the BOLD signal can be reconstructed from the graphs of all mixed blood flow.

>What would we gain from using RF-diffraction as opposed to MR?

Main gain is practicality.
Main usage would be for brain interface. This is phase contrast tomography, so you can get the refractive index of the materials inside, and their speed.

It won't be as precise as MRI, but it will be more practical. More portable. It doesn't use magnets so not limited by maximum magnetic fields. It is more scalable if you have compute power, meaning you can add some SDR to increase the resolution and bandwidth if necessary. Time resolution would probably be better as it doesn't need moving parts (if beam forming). It's cheaper. It's non invasive and usable 24/7.

We already have wifi imaging, so this is just putting it in favorable condition so as to extract more info from the brain. Basically until we can get the full connectome activation real time, we are just side-channel attacking the brain to extract some info. I'm just trying to grasp how much and how useful is the info we can get using existing techniques.

For example you put this device inside every monitor screen (for 60Ghz or in a TV sized box for 5Ghz) and a software controlled radio emitter behind the back of your head. And if the useful info bandwidth is sufficient we could have vastly better interface to the computer.

This can probably be adapted for room-sized continuous body health monitoring if the resolution is not sufficient or if the info extracted is not relevant enough.
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Which RISC-V implementations uses speculative execution?
In this case, it appears the node is in your browser, right? Does it go away when you close your tab? In which case your link will survive for 30 minutes, or is it just gone?
Yes, to be clear: I am not arguing that the value they provide justifies in any way the extortionate fees they're asking. Quite the opposite, in fact - I believe it's mostly "justified" (or at least made possible) through a disfunctioning market.
> We can be wiped out by some of the simplest lifeforms

And yet, we are not.
I know that some frameworks were built upon backbone. You'd use frameworkX which would wrap Backbone. You wouldn't use Backbone directly.
To be fair, many cats try very hard to reciprocate with food. It's not their fault we don't appreciate a nice fresh mouse.
The gist is that they don't need to anymore. The entire point of going public until about 2010 was to raise money and obtain shareholder liquidity and they accepted tradeoffs to do so, like spending tons of time on reporting and compliance.

It's now possible to raise basically unbounded amounts of money in private placements, and also for existing shareholders to sell into private secondary markets.

Here's more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-02/goldman-i...,
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-03-24/private-c...

This is not investment advice.

If you want to invest in truly small cap tech companies (say, under $400 million valuation), AngelList (https://angel.co/invest/start) is probably the largest market.

If you want to invest in small-ish cap tech companies of the size that might have already been public 20 years ago (say, $400 million-$1 billion valuation), SecondMarket/Nasdaq Private Market (https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/) is probably the largest market.

Hopefully this is obvious, but just in case: this should be a tiny portion of one's investable assets - think less than 5% - and this asset class should be as diversified - ie, include many positions - as any other. Otherwise, these aren't investments, they're lotto tickets. As it is, I think https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-09/retail-vo... is true of late-stage startups too; an individual is very unlikely to form a uniquely informed opinion.
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its my understanding that its the sp500 that is very difficult to beat in the long run. Is that not correct?
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Data sharing technologies disrupted the media market in the same way that ride sharing technologies disrupted the taxi market. Its piratical uses are secondary to the fact that analog information had been largely outmoded by digital information as early as the first BBS.

The piracy, "concert/merch" model, as well as the success of Bandcamp and Spotify, are adaptations to changes in the infrastructure for information exchange.

However, anyone arguing that music, movies, or code "should be free" probably hasn't played a guitar, acted in a play, or written a block. Doing these things well is not easy and takes a lifetime of almost-daily practice and expertise...consider resuming that argument when the world is post-currency.
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And just now it dawned on me that my rss reader had been failing to process the xkcd feed for some time. I guess i am way past the saturation point of the stick figures humor.
Right, the NSA may not give pause, because it's not really their asses on the line. It would be Intel that would take the beating in PR and revenue, so you'd kind of expect them to consider that before doing any old thing asked of them.
And yet Uber is worth significantly more than nearly all of the companies in the specific verticals you mention.
But the opposite view could just as easily be used as a justification: I.e. "We're just animals, no different from any other. So anything we do is a part of nature, and we shouldn't second guess it, any more than any other animal would second guess its instincts."

I think we need to recognise that we are, at least, unique. And that we have a unique ability to affect the world, for good or ill, that sets us apart from other animals. That shouldn't be an excuse for hubris, but it should be reflected in how we view ourselves as a species.
(Sorry, I can’t resist)
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Is it vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre?
It is often bad tone to assume some (more or less unethical) motives behind a contrary view. Why would you do that? is it because of <insert something bad>? The technique seldom lends itself to a balanced discussion and will tend to deteriorate into ad hominem type arguments (I know, I used to do it a lot :-/ ...) . Anyway to your point: I find it probably that all species will find themselves more special than others, and I could easily imagine a conversation between dogs find that they are the most special of all creatures: tell me who can smell as good as we? Eagles would claim to have better eyesight than most etc. Either we as humans can claim to be better than everyone else at everything (clearly false), or claim that we are best at being us, something we share with every other species. A third position, which evaluates species from species-neutral characteristics doesn't seem to exist. And so the modest attitude which you criticize could at least be said to be guided by logic, not misanthropy at all.
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A bit late? ;)
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According to the book, "Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind", we are the only animal that utilizes a "shared fiction", ie governmental laws.
The linked paper is empirical counterevidence to that theoretical model though.

Admittedly, we can always just say "we're not in the long run," I'm not sure how useful that is.

I'm not certain what model exactly you're talking about, but I think it also probably misses technological change as a real source of growth independent of any monetary musings.
I'd recommend reading the novel; it's a wonderful read. Clarke wrote it alongside the screenplay (which he cowrote with Kubrick), and it helps clarify some of the more mystical happenings at both the beginning and the end of the film.

Kubrick, via wikipedia[1]:
"There are a number of differences between the book and the movie. The novel, for example, attempts to explain things much more explicitly than the film does, which is inevitable in a verbal medium. The novel came about after we did a 130-page prose treatment of the film at the very outset. This initial treatment was subsequently changed in the screenplay, and the screenplay in turn was altered during the making of the film. But Arthur took all the existing material, plus an impression of some of the rushes, and wrote the novel. As a result, there's a difference between the novel and the film ... I think that the divergences between the two works are interesting."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)
All of those models depends on the specific axioms used to create them. It is not clear if the axioms are correct. The result is disappointing, but real world experience suggest that the result is wrong.
> We should fund a tiny group for sane cpu design.

It's happened, again and again. The ARM CPUs powering your phones are a good example. Maybe with more of a market, POWER9 prices might come down.
Have you thought about adding sound?

Either something like Opus, or...

You could do a decomposition of the audio signal and send a small array of {frequency, amplitude} pairs for each frame, then ramp to each new pair as they arrive.

If you do this fast enough then you get just enough of the timbre of the original to make a listener think they are hearing the "right" thing for a video they already know.

Even with a single oscillator you can get some interesting sounds this way.

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I'd be interested to hear more. Any reference come to mind?
Craigslist and zimride (lyft) started carpool rides. Uber then launched the black car service. And then sidecar launched a service where people used their own car to drive customers. Uber did not invent the space on its own.
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Sadly, no. No memory protection, you see.
So, which functions would you have to call? How would you read the secrets? You can't do any kind of pointer magic in JS (nor system calls).
I wouldn't say it "challenges" set theory.

For this to be the case there have to demonstrable advantages over working with set theory. The main attraction of HoTT is that it allows people to do homotopy theory on computers using theorem provers. It is still a very open question whether this is an improvement over pen and paper math. It's still not clear if HoTT is just some neat technical gimmick that allows one to model homotopy theory using type theory.

This is still certainly worth investigating, but saying that HoTT "subsumes" set theory is a bit strong.

I would refer the interested reader to the discussion at https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2015/05/13... (between Jacob Lurie, Shulman and Voevodsky).
In Brazil, last year there was a long strike by bank agency employees for bigger salaries. It went barelly noticed because most of bank services now can be performed online or through ATMs (even among the poor, as someone who is so poor to not have a smartphone, also is too poor to use a bank).

More than 20 days of all agencies closed and almost no one cared. I am sure it actually weakened their position.
2001 is certainly a unique movie. I was a little disappointed or unsatisfied the few times I've watched it (esp. as a kid) because I didn't understand everything. But I think it's on purpose and it is partly what makes this movie so fascinating.
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Any recommended pinning services? It'd be swank if all CDNs supported this functionality, but in the interim...
There is almost zero risk not getting enough sugar these days. That's not something to worry about.
The cost to the consumer of buying a house is probably higher than it would be without these incentives, actually, because it ends up causing more money to spill into real estate.

It's the same with college costs: every additional dollar of federally subsidized loans made available to the public adds a dollar to the cost of college, almost necessarily so.
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It is but it’s still too new.
Lua has by the far the cleanest embedding story of any scripting language. This isn't about Lua the language succeeding, but the Lua developers being low enough on the difficulty gradient to be included into another codebase.
Late to the party but I've written about what's worked for me for finding consulting clients: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-l...
Sidecar invented the driver using their own car, leading the way to Uberx and lyft.
Of course those questions were only raised after it all went public, and Uber became a bad word in some circles. It’s possible the investors were so due diligence free that they had no clue, but I really doubt it.
the sp500 is not zero sum. you are ignoring dividends, and I think stock buy backs throws a monkey wrench into that assumption as well. lastly, population and economy increases.
And going back to the VC analogy I referenced above, VCs invest in a lot of companies hoping One will succeed and expecting lots of them to fail.
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I only wrote what I did from what I've seen in my own life. It's an anecdote but common enough for me that I'd imagine it applies to other people too.

And you're right. If other animals were self aware enough to recognize their own exceptional qualities I'm sure they'd be proud of them. Humans have an awful sense of smell. Our vision is good, but animals have better vision. Same for hearing.

But we are extremely good at thinking and cooperating with other members of our species. We're special because we form a highly dynamic super-organism like an ant colony, which amplifies our individual exceptionalism.
I don’t disagree with you, but I think the human mind is essentially programmed to seek first causes. Part of what has made us so successful as a species is that we want to chase patterns down to their foundations, and I think it’s natural to feel that there is some “root” truth that explains the entirety of existence. I think that’s why a lot of people turn to simplistic unifying philosophies; it reduces a lot of intellectual anxiety if you have one big idea that subsumes all others, and upon which you can fall back when faced with uncomfortable questions. All of which is a long way of saying that while you’re correct, I think as a species we’ll always trend towards trying to find “THE foundation” even when the more rational thing is to “pick and choose” like you’re suggesting.
The problem is when you only have a sequential of hard problem and you're currently too tired to start and your boss expects a status report in 2 hours...
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True enough, we're all dead, but the mathematics can lead to a bit of depression when it comes to investing once you think about it a bit. Given all portfolio returns are based on the Prime Rate and modeled after random walks, it can be pretty easily seen that the rates of return based on modernish portfolio theory[1] will approach the Risk-Free (Prime) rate.

I wish i could find the actual theorem, but it's been a few years since I took the course and have long lost the textbook[1]. It was pretty clear though when it was taught, or at least that's what I gleaned out of that lesson without the teacher having to say it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_asset_pricing_model