skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm neither a writer nor a finance pro, but I've been investing for myself for about 30 years. I wrote these posts for my kids so they could learn from my mistakes as well as what I learned along the way.

https://hackernoon.com/https-medium-com-davisjames-hacker-fi...
FWIW, I was taught "breakfast", "dinner", "supper" at school, and their English courses were supposed to closely follow British usage (although I'm not sure which regional dialects, if any specific ones, they tracked in practice). We were taught "lunch" as well, but it was treated more like a second breakfast.
Try this to remap caps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctrl...
> Does anyone else think it's time for a new and promising operating system?

iOS is the new and promising operating system.

It challenged and made us review many of the assumptions that everyone considers to be universal for an OS, even though they have no reason to be:

- The need for a user-accessible "file system."

- The need for multiple, customizable windows on the screen.

iOS dared to go against the grain and people rallied against it.

Even though the vision seems to have gotten somewhat muddled post-Jobs, and some of the trademark stubbornness giving way under Tim Cook, and despite the annoying bugs and inconsistencies lately, iOS has actually worked surprisingly well; the iPad is the first computing device that many of the older people in my family can comfortably and confidently use.

It still has some way to go, but if you give it an honest chance, you'll see that an iPad [+ Smart Keyboard + Pencil] can easily perform 70%-90% of the task that most people ever need to do on a computer, without many of the jags associated with traditional desktop operating systems.

With the recent rumors about unifying iOS and macOS while still keeping desktop and mobile user interfaces distinct, I'd like to believe that Apple have some exciting plans ahead for a future OS made up of the best features from iOS+macOS.
I think cultural mastery is similar to skill mastery. They both take a long time to master. So once you start allowing parity at the bottom levels it takes many years before parity at the top is reached.

Affirmative action often involves discussion on reducing quality or creating self-fulfilling prophecies by have no role models at the top.

I think a deeper issue is that leadership as an idea is still "masculine" in nature, reflecting a heroes journey to conquer something in the wild and bring it home. Heroines are just females still going out on a hunt. Instead there is much and underappreciated value in the maintenance of hearth and home. In learning how to live and creating wealth and complexity out of relationships between objects and people rather than extracting some sort of value from the environment.

It's just that such types of created wealth don't have the exponential explosion of conquered wealth.
> Is just not rigth that google answer faster than a local disk search.

A while back, I had just bought a new desktop. I couldn't just use the hodgepodge of ~1280 MB worth of RAM from my old desktop because it was a different technology, but I also couldn't afford a GB of ram that would work with the new desktop.

I kept my old desktop on the network, made a big ramdisk out of 1GB of its RAM, and exposed it to the network as a network block device (kernel driver was called 'nbd'). I mounted that device on my new desktop and used it for swap, because it was orders of magnitude to eat all the transmission, TCP, etc delays in exchange for not having to hit disk platters.

.... which is _really not all that different_ from why google can return search results faster than you can search your local hard drive.
If a lightning strikes the ocean surface are the salty regions the most conductive ones and thus deadly?
Which search engine might that be? Last time I looked, Google operated a de facto monopoly.
You're the second person to say that their grandparents use breakfast/dinner/supper. Here's the other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134094 - note that the author is from US!

Now I'm really curious, because breakfast/dinner/supper is what I was taught in school, English being my second language. And I also very quickly found that it doesn't match common usage in any of the countries I've been too... but I thought that it's because of an attempt to better reflect the times of the meals in translation that backfired. Now it sounds like they were basically just teaching us English circa first third of the 20th century?
I don't believe your personal convenience trumps everyone's right to privacy.
In American English, if you invite people "for a cup of tea" then someone is getting cups, hot water and tea bags, and not any meal at all.
The real lesson here is to make sure you have a real programming language development environment on any laptop you bring with you.

I’m only kidding, of course.

This post is actually quite cool.
The first syllable in charcoal reads "tʃɑ:" in IPA. I was referring to the "ʃ" sound, formally the "voiceless palato-alveolar fricative" according to Wikipedia.
Ok so the next question is whether that should be considered failure or not. Also they'll go below that (because some of their "investments" are government bonds which they won't be allowed to unload, as it would affect the government too much).

For current or future recipients of said benefits, the answer is pretty clear : yes.

And, frankly, the government has promised these people compensation in terms of years or work, and amounts of income after those years of work. It should be illegal to make these claims. (and for the private sector, it mostly is, so frankly these laws are letting government lie on compensation letter, which is low, dishonest)
“Where birds don't lay eggs”: How media in Asia translated “shithole countries”
You mentioned not having soil, are you using store bought fertilizer or something else? Do you need to deal with adding any chemicals to grow things?
I Rode in a Car in Las Vegas. Its Driver Was in Silicon Valley
> Software is generally a lot more complex these days, and telemetry data is needed to stay competitive and keep improving.

If violating user's privacy is your way to stay competitive, then that's your personal problem. You have no right to spy on everyone just because you have problems staying relevant.
I wouldn't say that Rice's thm is the bane of static analysis. It is what makes the field interesting. If the problems were not undecidable then we wouldn't have do so many interesting and challenging things to make working tools.
Market need likely, but it is hard to get people to pay for software licenses.
I think they would have greater success by refocusing on those and just developing plugins for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Getting everyone to install a browser seems like an uphill battle.

Brave doesn’t only do ad blocking; it also handles tracking, cryptocurrency mining and fingerprinting scripts too.

In addition, browsers do not allow the kind of low-level access required to block everything Brave blocks.

From the recent Brendan Eich AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7l4033/transcri...

bat-brendaneich Admin 1:31 PM First question may be about the idea of a BAT extension for other browsers, but that is premature. The big problem with UGP grants and Gemini-phase ad revenue shares to users is fraud. Just user-funded contributions has a fraud problem too: as with buy widgets, stolen CC identity => $20 charge to buy BAT => contribution at scale via sybils/mturk-users/bots-with-enough-work => settlement to colluding but verified (small blog) publisher. That's why I mentioned sybil-resistance above.
So we can't just make a wish and try monitoring Basic Attention Metrics from an extension, and attributing BAT flows and creating user wallets, from extensions. There can be other problems, which I've noted elsewhere: lack of extension APIs to do all we do for the BAT platform to work (block ads/trackers, HTTPS Everywhere, Fingerprinting Protection, BAM and the ledger), extensions run in JS sandboxes with API limits.
So to put first things first, we will build in Brave while keeping our code as separable from chromium (or the mobile webview on iOS) as possible. After we have those endpoing and on-chain specs I mentioned in pretty good shape, we can assess extension feasibility on Mozilla, I can't speak for them.
The friend who contacted after the BAT sale signaled interest but said it would take time, to which I said "same here" (per roadmap). I hope that answers the two reddit questions.
lmao. what kind of science is this? you are not worth it but since you don't know how to search i did it for you:

>The suit also alleges that Google has "open hostility for conservative thought," that Damore and others were "ostracized, belittled and punished" for their views, that the company is an "ideological echo chamber" that uses "illegal hiring quotas" at the expense of white males.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/james-damore-files-class-act...
Not really, because unlike trade degrees, mech civil or elec engg degrees are prestigious, and often even more so than theoretical physics.
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http://www.fast.ai/

https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud...

https://agi.mit.edu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLbMPyrw4rw&list=PL6EE0CD029...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PL7-jPKtc4r...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnWJUyUJYU&list=PLkt2uSq6rB...
It shows how many people have kids and that one might miss out
Sure, but how would you solve the hardware drivers problem?
I don't think anyone wants unregulated markets for everyone, just like no one really wants anarchy. There are criminal, or rebellious elements in every group, but co-beneficial arbitrage is what we've evolved to.
Great photographs: it's really difficult to make a good photo of a black subject against a black background. The first three images in the photo essay---in particular the third---show that, with skill, it can be done.
I did. Iirc Merkle is big into nanotech too.
> middlemouse.contentLoadURL=false

This is the default in Firefox 57 and later. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366945

> I don't understand why it's still on by default

It's not.
I wrote a post a few years ago comparing nullable types to maybe/optional. https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mis...

A lot of it is a more specific cas of sum types vs union types.
> Websockets are used for nefarious purposes?

Websockets were created sedcifically to get clients to transfer data to the server at the request of the server and without the user specifically wanting to send it.
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It was removed in Firefox 41, once WebSocket had been shipping for a while. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159792

The only reason the pref was there is that new features tend to have prefs to disable them. First because those are useful for enabling a feature for testing before it may be ready to be on by default, second in case there's a serious problem with the feature that requires it to be turned off in a hurry. But once a feature has been shipping and on by default for a while, prefs to disable it just end up being technical debt, and tend to get removed like any other technical debt when people get a chance.
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Most of this comes down to putting the camera on a tripod, then using a button that keeps the shutter open for a long period of time. Drop the ISO way down and then hold it open for 0.5s. Features like that aren't really available in smartphone form, and it felt like a loss.

Lighting is just as important, of course, but you can achieve some interesting effects just by giving light more time to enter a physically stable camera.

EDIT: I changed my mind. If you look at the photos carefully, you can see most of the effect is from a fill light behind the camera. If that light source doesn't exist, no amount of holding the shutter open will make it seem like it does.
They make the point that rotary joints are for conceptual illustration, and it could equally use hinge or flex joints. This would be relevant at the nano scale,

> In particular, a molecular version of this architecture could use stiff covalently-bonded nanotubes for the links and single bonds for the joints.

In that case joint friction would not be a consideration, or at least I would imagine things like electrostatic or molecular bonding forces would be larger.
I started using a lead holder/clutch pencil for schoolwork and I can't go back to anything else because of the knurled grip. Pencils slowly slip out of my hand after just 2 minutes of writing while my lead holder will write for hours with no repositioning.
> is largely a part of default EXPECTATIONS resetting up

Yes, exactly! But take the next step and ask what sets EXPECTATIONS about the worth of a security in a smart-contract environment? It stops being generalized market fear and it starts being actual DATA about performance.

> Ethereum (which, by the way, is too slow to run CDO pricing models)

You don't run the monitoring software ON the blockchain (you could but it would be inefficient). You run that off-chain using blockchain analysis software.
Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com, a Site He Helped Bankrupt
Something tells me there may be an inherent danger to isolating these people further.

You may be on to something, but perhaps restricting sales is not the best use of user-ratings.

I've often wondered if weighing a producer-side rating against the user-side rating could work (e.g. a user with a low rating can give a 1 star review yet have little effect on the game rating).
Can you elaborate on the threat model here? Having the second factor be stored on the same device you're entering your password on, protected by a password (another example of something-you-know), seems to counteract most of the benefits of having TOTP.
From the FAQ, this is just chromium + an ad blocker + something called Brave Payments that's suppose to support publishers with micropayments

Not available yet, but you’ll be able to opt-in to ads that will relevant to you based on Brave’s use of zero knowledge proofs and machine learning to learn what matters to you. You’ll also be paid 70% of the ad revenue to watch them.

You’ll also have the option to pay content creators (including YouTubers) with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), a utility token based on Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/

Brave is seeding the BAT ecosystem by regular User Growth Pool (UGP) donations; they gave 300,000 BAT last month--$221,970 at the current price--and another one is expected soon.

"Brave grants 300,000 crypto tokens to browser users”: https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-grants-300000-crypto-t...
A crash log doesn't violate your privacy, nor does usage statistics when properly anonymized.

Sometimes telemetry is just telemetry.
I had a similar adventure about ten years ago. That story is here:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2008/06/bugged-life.html
> The point is when families measure their worth in economic terms

That's a silly argument. It's like accusing the concept of motorized transportation of being the scourge of society just because some random family out there might have had a bad experience by measuring their worth in terms of how many cars they own.
One really charming bit: They make one color of pastel pencils each week to keep the colors from cross contaminating. Maria, who works on the pastel pencil line, does her nails to match the color they will be making and picks shirts to match too. There's a picture of her hands and that week's pastel extrusions in the article.
How Big Data Will Influence the Future of Business
The problem with this is that overall losses were nowhere near 65 cents on the dollar -- only 20 percent of US mortgages were subprime at the peak of the GFC.

If the market was rational and had full insight into the performance of its securities, losses would have been no more than 20-35 cents on the dollar. That is enough to cause a major crisis, but it wouldn't trigger the paralysis of the global financial system.
They're using a transliteration that's usual for basically everything but English, the one that assumes common Latin sounds for all the individual letters, and then you just pronounce them one by one.
I'd definitely start with codeacademy. There's two ways I look at it, if you want to be front end and start easy then go into html and javascript front end design then work to the back end. If you want to be a software developer or engineer start with back end development aka C, C# etc, but it will take more math. Up to your own path. I'd also suggest a small project idea in your head you want to accomplish. I just wanted to create a website, did it and then lost my passion, but in the process of that project learned a lot. Lastly, paying someone on upwork.com a dev for example to keep you accountable and teach you javascript for $5 an hour is actually a great hack for me after I finished codeacademy.
Pretty irresponsible to completely brick production servers when doing an upgrade.

https://status.kraken.com

Sounds like their staff has being going without sleep for a few days now.
We’re working on www.altheamesh.com to create networks where participants within the network can compete with one another to provide better service without the end consumers having to switch providers.

This is accomplished by adding a price metric to the routing protocol so that packets are routed along the best and cheapest paths.

So if you notice that a certain neighborhood has bad service, you can set up some kind of connection to it and sell into that network to make a profit. No advertising. The end users will only notice their internet access getting cheaper and or better.
Reason Why Kodak’s Bitcoin Scheme Is a Scam
Revisiting hash table performance
The Time I Ruined Programming
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Not unless you're the one renting out the miners.
POWER is vulnerable to Spectre. I’m trying to get definitive confirmation that it’s affected by Meltdown (firmware notes say yes)
They should not be collecting data by default anyway.
Dear native English speakers: Does the following excerpt make sense to you? “Packing graphite, which is the consistency of sand, ...” I would have expected “which has the consistency of sand”. Thanks!
Several Danish municipalities have begun running their own WANs on loraWAN tech because it’s virtually free once the initial fee of setting it up has been paid. It’s not real internet, but it’s the only way we can connect our IOT and smart city stuff in a way that is economically feasible because we can’t afford to pay fees on connections for thousands of devices.

We could set up our own internet, and I think we should, unfortunately this would be illegal as the large telecoms have lobbied their way into legislation ensuring that people pay, what is essentially a private tax, on their utilities.
Ninefox Gambit / Raven Strategem were great, my favorite military sci-fi since Old Man's War.
Is this reply intended for a different comment?
I think there's a simple explanation for this.

Increased head size == greater risk of death in childbirth

Female hips have already evolved to be as large as possible while still being load-bearing.

It would be interesting to see what the wide-spread use of Caesarean sections would do to the human brain, if we weren't all going to be transhuman within a few generations anyway

As far as whether there are diminishing returns to increased intelligence within one individual, I'd say try taking two people with half of Einstein's IQ and asking them to explain General Relativity
Activating circadian clock reduces brain cancer without side effects in mice
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Not trying to be pedantic.

The presence of water bodies itself is what defines the current borders of "the land". If you take the water out, aren't you just creating more land surface?

Which you then have to cover with the water you're taking out. Until it all evens out.
Sounds fine to me but I can see why it would be confusing. In proper prose it would be as you have it or maybe "which is of the consistency of sand".

You'll also hear people say things like "it's the same difficulty as ___" instead of "it has the same difficulty as ___".
That place is called 'Murica.
As I mentioned previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138524), Brave isn't just a bunch of plugins.

I would argue that integrating the blocking of tracking, cryptocurrency mining and fingerprinting scripts in the core of a browser is an innovation.

And using zero knowledge proofs and machine learning to learn a user’s browsing habits without leaking personal information (or fingerprinting your browser) is an innovation. So is the integration of a micropayments system and wallet.

Also, unlike using traditional ad blocking extensions, you don’t get those annoying popups from websites wining about how they need the ads to generate revenue and asking the user to possibly whitelist their site… while they’re using scripts that track your movement all over the web.

Brave is starting where Firefox should have evolved to regarding user privacy and a way to support publishers and content creators without ads as we know them.
Either of those sounds fine to this native English speaker. I would probably go with "is" like the author, but it's pretty much a toss-up.
I guess its "experimental" as in your will in a lab setting with experimental (rust!?) code for traditional operations on an rpi.

Not that you will be experimenting with new OS concepts.

Which is sort of a shame because it seems much of OS research might be turning back to concepts that haven't been explored since the "RISC/unix" revolution in the late 80's early 90's proclaimed that multiple privilege level machines, capabilities, full ACL controlled operations, message passing kernels, and dozen's of other concepts wern't "fast" or fell to the wayside because the RISC and traditional unix model couldn't support them, while we continue to pay a huge hidden tax for the flat address/paged memory model...
Not really Vinge/Niven style, but Weir's new one Artemis was a fun read. Also, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 was a lighthearted and somewhat optimistic take on humans who have coped with the inevitability of climate change.
Nice parody (in German):
http://www.der-postillon.com/2017/11/baby-an-bord.html
translation:
https://pastebin.com/CQwrTtSQ
I have written quite a bit over the years. And some cartooning.
I feel amazingly in tune with my fourty years younger teenage self.
I think too.
N64 object software renderer in 512 lines
The entire thing is a great case of cultural challenges. From one hand, you’d like to encourage open discussion about everything. Because innovation and out of the box thinking. On the other, discussing some ideas leads to conflict. A culture of free ideas is one of the best ways to attract talent, restricting it will commercially detrimental. So is loosing talent over conflict like this. It is a leadership challenge. A very complex one. But one that does not seem to be handled with a ton of grace. Maybe because there is no good solution
Stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s
weird question - is there any scifi around finance ? Cryptocurrency, etc. I feel it is weird that almost every piece of tech has had a scifi runway leading to it (VR, AI, robots, clean energy, etc)... but not finance.

Maybe I'm missing something