skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transparency was absolutely the underlying issue. Read "Too Big To Fail" or "The Great Short" or any of the other histories of the Financial Crisis. The way CDOs were bundled and tranched made it effectively impossible for purchasers or banks to know which properties were actually covered by any CDO.

No-one knew what was in them -- the value was asserted by the ratings agencies and they were purchased based on expected rate-of-return. Even the people who went short on the market ended up using heuristics: there is a wonderful passage in The Great Short which describes a character who tells his broker that he will short anything bought by one of the people he has just met.

Once the extent of fraud became clear the entire market dumped down to 35 cents on the dollar. The fact that transparency was an issue is also apparent right here, since nowhere near 65% of consumer mortgages failed. But no-one would buy because no-one could tell if any particular CDO was backed by anyone who was still capable of making payments.

With Ethereum and smart-contract based mortgage systems this completely disappears, since the blockchain broadcasts every single payment made in real-time and it is possible for anyone to simply look and see if whether defaults are rising or falling among the mortgages that underpin their collateralized securities.
Yes. We need new requirements more than we need new implementations of the same.
Our old barncat just hunted the ratlings. Tenderer meat, you know.
What segments of the spectrum allow this technology for public use? How do those compare to what ATT/VZN own?
>I can tell you that the righteous feeling does little to counteract annoyance from fellow travelers (especially those in my own party).

Phuu.. then tell them up front you'll meet them at the gate.

I great excuse (I have read this somewhere) is that you've heard they keep screwing the calibration of the of the ray-machine and over zapping people and don't want to trust your life to some min wager who really don't care if you lose 10 years or not.

I've always opted out.
I do a lot of this stuff as a yogi. Very interesting.

A while back - maybe ten years ago - I'd do a meditation where I imagined myself on my knees facing an executioners gun and allowing my thoughts to visit that moment. Quite illuminating.

It's long been a part of the Japanese samurai culture as well - to meditate on death every day.
dnsmasq is very popular with SOHO routers.
US citizen here. Haven't visited the US in years. Myriad reasons why, but the CBP policy is part of it. Just don't like the idea of people demanding I let them go through my stuff, but also don't like the idea of sitting around for 8 or 9 hours or having my machine confiscated if I won't give up the password, either.

I should also note that at least as a US citizen, having traveled through some 40 or so different countries, US customs is the third most unfriendly customs I have traveled through. Only ones worse for me have been Canada (last trip to Canada was likely the last I will make after my last customs experience there) and Czech. I feel much more comfortable visiting supposedly authoritarian countries than I do the United States.
You should try to remove confounding variables. Look at the chart you are trying to claim meaningful. When the top notions in your list include Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, and Columbia (who have literally some of the worst education outcomes in the world) - you should know the data does not represent what you seem to think it might. Some outliers here and there might be okay but when 80% of the top 5 are some of the literally lowest performing nations in existence? Yeah, probably safe to say your metric does not have a positive correlation with educational outcomes.

Vietnam's education system is a complete shit show. Teachers earn scraps leading to a semi-open practice of education related bribery. Resources are all but nonexistent and invariably outdated. Native teachers tend to be poorly educated, whereas foreign teachers are a mix of sexpats and backpackers. And I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to imply with their government, but the nation is not communist. It has a single authoritarian party that oversees a market economy. The only semblances left of communism are an extremely poor people and the complete lack of any freedom of speech. Schools in many cases are practically falling down.

Regardless, the nation somehow is producing even more capable students than the US. When I was young I also went to a incredibly poor urban school. And I also had numerous Vietnamese individuals in my classes who I remain friends with to this day. In an interesting coincidence they too, in spite of enormous adversity of our youth, went on to all do well more than fine. Of course that's completely anecdotal. In looking for demographic data I was completely unsurprised to see Vietnamese well above the median in terms of US median household incomes. [1]

So what's their secret sauce? Whatever it is, it's unlikely to be replicated by just throwing money at the problem anymore than you would manage to turn lead to gold with good intentions and lots of dollars.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
> I'm pretty sure that US HIPAA law would preclude storing any medical records from being stored on a network whose owner you don't have a BA with. From my readings (see Digital Ocean's various discussions on the topic) this even includes data that is chunked and encrypted before sending off to storage.

That's not clear. AFAICT, HIPAA and the security rules adopted under it would not do so, unless one were to interpret receiving, storing, and transmitting encrypted data without the key as equivalent to maintaining (etc.) the source data, which then would make transmitting encrypted PHI over the public internet without BAAs with the infrastructure providers at every network hop a violation of HIPAA.
Yeah there aren't enough suckers willing to invest in firms to "compete" with the monopolists to fall for that regulatory bait-and-switch again.
Ask HN: What benefits might come with an economy based on a cryptocurrency?
I'm genuinely curious in different people's answers to this question about a hypothetical far off circumstance where a cryptocurrency would replace the US dollar- I personally have been having trouble seeing the benefits that many people seem to implicitly assume in discussions.

The negatives I see:

1. Inability of a central bank to regulate the econony through quantitative easing and other economic policy. An economy based on cryptocurrency seems like it'd have the same problems with return to a gold standard, mostly financial instability. I understand that for some ideologues this is a plus, most mainstream Americans and economists and basically the government of every developed country would tend to disagree.

2. It could feasibly become more difficult to enforce tax policy. As an alternative positive, an open ledger monitored by a savy IRS might actually make enforcing tax policy easier. Again, understand that for some ideologues an untaxable currency is a plus, but most people would disagree strongly.

3. The transition from fiat to cryptocurrency would likely be chaotic and result in a transfer of wealth along uncertain lines - who would gain? Who would lose? Somehow I doubt the working poor would be the big winners.

So what do other people see as the key longterm economic positives from cryptocurrency?
Now, in retrospective, the Samsung battery issue affected only a small portion of users, whereas this will affect every single user in the form of decreased performance.
Right. So what can be done about telcos taking that money, and giving it to shareholders instead of delivering the infrastructure they committed to? Very little. That money is gone.
Was always fascinated by Plan9 and Inferno... from a distance. Way ahead of its time. I’m glad some of its ideas (probably notably UTF-8) made their way to more conventional OS’es.
I just wanted to comment that I think this is brilliant and the kind of analysis and general skeptical of data we should see more of.

Just for context,of its not obvious, I work with data. Both putting it together and analyzing it. And one of my chief frustrations with academia (and biggest lessons to people I advise) is a kind of "cultural reverence for the data set".

Just because data is collected, in no way does that assure that's it's right or suitable, even if the valuable name says it is.

Be skeptics. Private suppliers have incentive to sell you data. Private industries have incentives to keep data from you (it constitutes competitive advantage). Government data has political interference on what is collected, even if you're lucky enough to live in a world where the actual collection is independent and rigorous. Reporters and responses to surveys and interviews may be innacurate even when people thought they were being honest, and on socially contentious topics they usually don't have that.

And even if you managed to avoid all that, it doesn't mean your data isn't problematic. Our census in my country, for example, is done in the winter time. How good is that at tracking information in seasonal towns?

Proper data collection is some of the hardest work you can do, and proper analysis comes from measuring, corroborating, justifying, hypothesising on the data you have. It does not involve just calculating a stat or, god forbid, just testing things for statistical significance just because it's on your data set.

For all those reasons, I highly commend this article. We need more of it.
ldxa asi non-faulting load ultasparc-i circa '96
Replacement rate is a smidge over two _on average_. That doesn't mean that it's wrong to have more than two children, any more than it means it's wrong to have fewer than two.

If you look at my wider family, you'll see some people with no children and some with five. But even on such a small scale, we average out at around replacement rate.
Berkeley's CS 162 is great, and recordings are available on internet archive. There are some decent undergraduate textbooks these days too: OSTEP is particularly accessible and free online, and the Tom Anderson _Operating Systems: Principles and Practice_ book is solid.
He's actually missing out elevenses and brunch.
The baby born in the John
Have you read his memo? It seemed very mild and grounded in reason to me.

Your claim that it was secretly anti-diversity is a bit infuriating as Damore goes to great pains to state he is in favor of diversity, and part of his memo is about how Google can do a better job of attracting women. Watching you, and others, twist this into "secretly he doesn't believe anything he wrote, but actually thinks the exact opposite" and not even bother offering evidence of this, let's be generous and call it an "interpretation", like I said - it's infuriating.

Damore's mistake was believing Google's PR, that it cared about diversity or rational discussion. Google doesn't care about diversity, they care about appearing to care about diversity. Thus, when Damore's memo is internal it can be discussed, but when made public he must be terminated.

Google is demonstrably insufficiently diverse, when an employee offers some thoughts based on modern science, to improve diversity, the press howls and Google terminates him. Google wants people to think it's a good corporation, and they are quite willing to abandon good principles to pursue that. It's a shame you've been fooled by their corporatist double speak and lazy media.
According to footnote 11, the FCC data set uses 10/1 as the definition of "broadband"
Learning to Program with Python, Music, and a Video Synthesizer
Minix is going to take over any day, just you wait and see!
i remember something in that vein yes, also I did their db course and it was a very nice one (the tone was a nice blend of simple but serious with interesting exercises but no torture)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7oxi53/developer_... , from one of the current Dogecoin devs:

> I feel some are using our rise to illustrate the absurdity of cryptocurrency pricing (http://uk.businessinsider.com/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-has-ma.... for example). To me, in an environment where a cryptoasset with $30 USD equivalent transaction fees has a market cap of over a quarter of trillion dollars, I don't think we're the absurd one. Yes we take ourselves less seriously, but that doesn't mean we're not serious behind the scenes. We're a 4 year old currency with transaction fees barely over a cent and significantly higher throughput than most other cryptocurrencies.

(Disclaimer: I know him personally.)
Reminder: pay your yearly contribution to your lawyer.

i.e. Write checks to ACLU and EFF.

ACLU: https://action.aclu.org/donate-aclu?redirect=donate/join-ren...

EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate
You have hit the nail on the head! African villages are pretty much the same. Kids play in age groups and whichever adult is around looks after the kids. This gives parents time to hang with other adults and the opportunity to actually miss their kids. In the city it is different spending 24 hours with a 5 year old can be taxing.
The Japanese are more likely to include emoji in their writing, as they are the inventors of the communication style. You might send a kadomatsu emoji to a client and that could be completely acceptable, depending on the nature of the relationship. The Japanese, of course, would have additional formalities beyond a kadomatsu including year end cards, spring gifts, etc.
Facebook gives you the option of how much to pay and says how many people you may reach with that money. I currently pay $1 per day, which lets me reach about 800 out of my 2000 followers every week. Each post ends up being seen by 50-100 people unless someone interacts with it (such as a like, share, etc), then it can get up around 200-500 depending on the interaction.

I have no idea what a newspaper would charge for similar exposure, but I can tell you that at $1 per day, I'm often paying more money than I'm making from my site.

For comparison, six months ago I was reaching nearly 100% of my followers each week and each post would easily be seen by 500 people no matter what. It's been an absolutely catastrophic drop-off.
To be fare, $0 up front and pay for usage used to be called "time sharing," in which the mainframe you buy time on is located on someone else's premises.

Only large and deep-pocketed users opted to lease a mainframe for their exclusive, local, use.
You don't really need the lectures - I took the main version (cs140) with ousterhout. His notes are condensed and give you a good summary of the basics. They're also open to the public:

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs140-spring14/lect...
This is incorrect. Look at your country's vaccination schedule, it probably includes vaccines against the following diseases which are caused by bacteria:

- Meningococcal, pneumococcal and haemophilus influenzae type b (bacteria that cause meningitis and pneumonia)

- Pertussis (whooping cough)

- Tetanus and diphtheria (although these are slightly different in that the vaccine provides immunity to toxins produced by the bacteria which cause the diseases)
Suburbia doesn't preclude two working parents or a stay at home dad.
TIL That Ruby lets you modify keyword parsing at runtime: https://github.com/jjuliano/bato/blob/master/lib/bato/ruby_p...
Actually I think Cory was in the wrong. And the managers actually did everything correctly.
They even talked with him, they didn't even fired him. They just clearly stated that the topic was closed and that he shouldn't have raised it because there was always a negative discussion about the topic which actually led to "performance" problems of certain groups within google.

actually a workplace should be your workplace, not your political debate site.

yes free speech is important. yes it's bad if people discriminate. but did he had other choices than just raising the topic again, in a "google" public forum? yes he could! but he did not, he could've mailed his HR guys or talked with his manager. or both.

but raising the same topic again and again and the same disucssion occurs with no end in sight, is always a bad idea (regardless of the topic).

p.s. i go to work because i love programming and not because i can raise political discusissons over and over again with my co-workers.
Can you experience a forest?

You can look at a map of a forest, but the map is not the territory. A detailed enough map would have to contain all of the detail of the forest and change as the forest does. It would have to be the forest itself.

You can visit the forest, but you are limited by your single viewpoint. You've only got two eyes and you're in one place all the time.

And yet, visiting a forest is a pleasant experience. Although most viewpoints are hidden from you, the one you have is beautiful.
The same thing is possible with Acorns and Zappos. I alerted them about the issue via their bug bounty program and their response was basically "meh, you can only earn a max of $40 a month"
I really do need to set up more mailing lists. I had it set up but I always got far greater reactions and click-through from Facebook so I haven't fully explored all my email options. Seems like it's time to jump back on that.
Fair enough, but I could have gone into more detail.

For every 1 minute that I spend typing code, I probably spend 10+ minutes reading and thinking about code.

We're trying to optimize the 10% if we're trying to improve coding by improving wpm
I don't think this is correct. From what I understand about DOCSIS, the video-related channels and Internet-related channels are completely separate frequency ranges on the coax line. The reason your bandwidth is reduced during peak usage hours is because you're sharing something like a 10gbps fiber line with hundreds of other people.
Those "experiments" are not nearly robust enough to make such claims.
Math for Stochastic Gradient Descent
The US House of Representatives passed a crucial surveillance law Thursday
Meet Challenger, a bald eagle whose soaring skills are in high demand
>Granted, you could obfuscate things by varying the buffer length and padding the data stream

Or maybe sending the blocks out of order to be reconstructed according to a shared ordering key?
Apparently it already did. Wasn't it said to be running the management engine on all Intel chips?
I expect way more of FiveThirtyEight articles than I expect of CNN articles, and I value FiveThirtyEight articles much more than I value CNN articles.
Redes sociales para restaurantes: las claves para triunfar
I don't quite get the problem as stated in the article. I assume it's a contrived example and the real (kotlin) code rather looks like:

val foo: T? = null
Observable.just(foo).subscribe()

Here foo is defined as nullable, hence the problem. If you make it

val foo: T = null
Observable.just(foo).subscribe()

the kotlin compiler will bark on foo being null and you'll never have a runtime error.

I think the motivating example should be described better but maybe I misunderstand it.
Maybe I'm missing your point a little, however for me today Starbucks is not like McDonalds when I was a kid.

Starbucks is interchangeable with any of the many coffee chains. The service is fast, prices won't be insanely high, yet it won't be stale coffee sitting for days in a warmer.

So I'll choose Starbucks over a boutique artisan coffee house and over a gas station. But Starbucks vs Other_Coffee_Chain means nothing to me.
EDIT: What I mean is I don't "decide to get my coffee at Starbucks". I decide I want to go for a walk and get coffee and I'll probably stop at the closest coffee chain.

Anyways, to bring this analogy back, what is the Spotify value add? The technical competence to host files on the internet? Putting a front end on CDN hosted media?
Are you suggesting Trump is like Nazis or ISIS? Can you point out Trump's most Nazi/ISIS like action?
You're right that it was possible for people to consult the original (think, paper-based prospecti) in at least some cases, but most people relied on the ratings agencies and they claim to have essentially greenlit their ratings on what the Black–Scholes equation told them, using assumptions that were convenient but untrue (i.e. Gaussian cupola -- that defaults would not be correlated).
Open access networks are the way to go. It keeps all the incentives in the right place to allow for capital investments to improve the network, prevent overbuilding, and encourage competition.
Maybe you find this talk interesting https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBGalP3jBwU
> What I’m arguing is that science is not a property of the Universe, but rather a construct of our limited brains.

By definition, it is a human construct: "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment"

Was this ever up for debate?

The real point being made is that the Universe might not be governed by finite, universal, consistent, "knowable" laws.

This is a point that has been advanced by several physicists. (My first memory was a book by Hawking.)

If it's not, science won't be able to know everything. But let's try anyway, because it's the best we can do.
>massive disadvantage compared to employers

In cases where labor is less like a commodity and/or when the employee, customer and employer lines are blurry (as is the case with city and town employees but less so with say, the IRS) there is less benefit to unionization.

I do think that unions would be a net positive for most gig-economy workers though.
Following on from a sibling comment: it's in society's interests to help parents to pay for their children. Not just because those children will be working to look after and provide for the older generation in retirement, but because the better educated they are, the more able they'll be at doing that.

Everyone should be happy to pay for schools because everyone benefits from being able to be paid a pension. And being able to spend the money they get from their pension on useful things, like food.
Your point reminds me of an anecdote from a talk [1] shared on HN a few days ago [2] where the speaker quoted Saul Bellow on FDR's fireside chats as saying people were "not considering but affirming" their content. The point of that article was expressing similarities between the adoption of radio and that of the internet, and in that particular anecdote showing that one of the dangers of radio was its ability to communicate with, and persuade people by emotion and sentiment more than facts. Poignant, then, to see an example like this where the internet likewise is interested in swaying by sentiment rather than, even in place of, facts.

Although, in some ways, what FiveThirtyEight is saying is worse than the Bellow quotation. They have not just "not considered," but have re-considered and decided to disregard the facts, while affirming what they originally wanted those facts to demonstrate. Just take their example of D.C., where they used a number that said there was 28.8% coverage, when in reality the coverage is 70%+. How can they then justify the sentiment that even metropolitan places like D.C. lack coverage?

The discrepancy, in their words, comes from totally different definitions: "We looked into it and found that the data set we used had a fundamentally different understanding of broadband access than other sources did." That FiveThirtyEight would stand by a sentiment derived from one definition of broadband coverage, and apply it to a definition that yields entirely different, indeed contradictory, data, seems irresponsible.

[1] http://idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106331
I don't think you understand how that works. The government didn't literally print more money, they bought securities from the banks in exchange for credit in the central bank's account. No actual money was printed. The increase in the BASE is because the Fed was reducing its reserves.

This is entirely possible to do in Bitcoin, you can still have a "lender of last resort".