skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing has had as large an impact on the maintenance of relative peace, at least between large/nuclear nations, as the atomic bomb. It's the MAD principle - mutually assured destruction. I think our discovery of nukes is actually pretty cool.
"Looking at the bulk of the research, it’s more likely that solar panels, over their lifetime, generate 10-15 times as much energy as it takes to produce them and their associated hardware. That number may be as high as 25. And it’s rising over time." http://rameznaam.com/2015/06/04/whats-the-eroi-of-solar/
Dell has a large debt load (not quite as much as some of the news outlets are reporting because they have something like $15bn+ in cash).

The change in tax code makes debt more expensive because you can't offset all of the interest. However most private equity executives believe that with the drop in corporate income tax, the effect is roughly net neutral. Not quite sure what the situation is for Dell.

I imagine a big motivator for Dell to buy VMware is to unlock the cashflow. They can then use the cash to pay down the debt. Including VMware, the debt load on as a multiple of EBITDA is roughly 3.5-4.0x net debt/EBITDA which isn't that high.... for PE

At the moment they own ~80% of the company but can't access the cash even though they book the profits on a look through basis.
Dutch Spies Watched as Russians Hacked US Democrats
Am I old? For a second there, I thought they were talking about Melee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melee_(game)), "... a simple man-to-man combat boardgame designed by Steve Jackson, and released in 1977 by Metagaming Concepts."

(With Wizard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_(board_game)) and The Fantasy Trip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantasy_Trip) (Yay, 1970s!), Melee made up the best fantasy role playing game. The only competition is the Hero system; GURPS is definitely a victim of the second-system effect.)

Edit: Yes, I'm apparently old. I'll return you now to your regularly scheduled discussion.
Yep, I got stuck with a $1000 ER bill because the insurance company decided I wasn't experiencing an emergency and covered me at a reduced rate of 80% or some such.

Despite the fact that I was admonished by both the doctor and the nurses for not calling 911 (I was basically unable to stand/walk and somebody else drove me). This was the one time I had zero wait time when walking into the ER. The staff took one look at me when I staggered in (holding a spent epi-pen), shoved me into a weelchair and wheeled me into the back.

It was apparently coded as allergic reaction, non-emergency. No amount of arguing with either the insurance company or the hospital rectified it, so I ended up paying.

In the end turns out it wasn't an allergic reaction at all, I had undiagnosed asthma (finally figured that out about a year after this incident - had to go through many different doctors until I found someone competent), fun!
Although this article talks about them from the perspective of UX, personae are fundamentally a marketing concept. They are simply a handy abstraction to help non-experts reason consistently about market segments.

This is like using the idea of "selfish genes" to help people reason consistently about natural selection. We don't think that genes are actually selfish, any more than we think that all customers fit into a few neat buckets. It just tricks the mind into adopting a different perspective.

It matters for product UX because your product will only serve the people who experience it, and people will only experience your product if you market it to them. (This is often where developers, who tend to look down on marketing and PR, fall off this wagon. But it is largely true.)

If you want a basic concrete example of the value of personae, then compare the bathrooms at an elementary school vs a bar. You're not going to position the fixtures the same way in both. But in order to reason about that, you need to first know who is coming into the respective establishments, and why.
They have been around for over 5 years. I used them 5 years ago..
It's telling that one of the richest, most well off men on Earth is helping to peddle this narrative. It behooves those in positions of power and wealth to hoodwink the masses into being satisfied with their given stations. Research and statistics say the world is a better place than ever, put down your protest signs.
Well, Alexa seems to be going the brute force route--using third-party skills is just like using a spoken command line utility. The problem is, while this approach is simple and it works, very few skills are useful.
A number of exchanges don't actually trade $/BTC they trade USDT/BTC. This accounts for enough of the market that the apparent $/BTC price is perceived as largely being driven by the USDT/BTC price, such that a correction in $/USDT price would see a similar correction in $/BTC price.

(In theory, this could be wrong, and a correction in $/USDT price could instead be reflected in opposite motion in USDT/BTC price, but the theory is that USDT has largely served as a vehicle to inject a bunch of fake dollars into Bitcoin trading, artificially inflating the in-dollars price of BTC.)
There will need to be a Rosa Parks in the insurance world and suddenly people will realize this is a radically unfair treatment.

Almost everyone knows someone who received a single bill that ruined them, yet we brush it off as a one off.
I agree with everything you said. That still doesn't equate to "nothing except for $100 yearly preventative checkups are covered" though, which was my point.

Keeping heated discussions honest is important, regardless of which side you are on (and I'm on your side).
I'm not sure this deserves a down vote aside from failing to provide context. The major app compatibility problems in vista boiled down to two things:
1. Apps that hard coded which OS they supported (the number one compatibility fix was just too lie about the OS version)
2. DOS applications were now virtualized in an app we called "DOS box".

Though it seems silly to have such hatred pop up over DOS support in 2006, a lot of b2b apps still used it.

Given how much of a beast WOW is (the x86 on x64 later), dropping native x86 support excites me and makes me cringe.
I have had several friends who built businesses in the crypto and finance space in the past 12 months - people are just throwing money at them. Some don't even have a product yet and are getting several million dollar buy out offers...

One in particular is https://taxtoken.io/ which is only a few months old and they've gotten way more investment that I would have thought. Of course, they are easily the best business I've seen in the space - making government & accountants happy.

Even my business: https://projectpiglet.com/

I realeased the first verison of the trading suggestion engine two weeks ago and already people are signing up regularly. Personally, I'm not taking on investment (yet), but even I've had people sending me emails. It's pretty crazy in the space right now.

Honestly, it feels like a pretty big bubble.

One thing that is driving me nuts, is a lot of people in this space are investing based on whitepapers. There's very little research being done, and what is being done is often super faulty. I've spent years on developing and testing my systems, then people come out and don't even do backtesting properly[1] and will raise a ton of money. I often feel VCs are just chasing the times, investing in everyone in the field, and praying. Which would be fine, but it also will bring about the downfall because people will lose faith in the products and / or will lead to much higher and stricter regulation in the field.

This is especially the case of Bio & Fianance where I've spent most of my time.

Also, why is this a mailchimp link? Seems odd.

[1] https://blog.projectpiglet.com/2018/01/perils-of-backtesting...
thanks, didn't know the english idiom
A more elaborate article at https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/dutch-agencies-provide-crucia...
Wow, that's amazing. On the topic of fault tolerance and consensus, here's a short but well done article on it:

https://ug93tad.github.io/consensus/

And on the topic of Paxos, some recent HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003662 - WPaxos: a wide area network Paxos protocol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13923949 - Paxos in 25 Lines

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13950493 - Gryadka is not Paxos, so it's probably wrong [RETRACTED]
> This is also why it’s inportant to have a balanced lifestyle. If the only focus of your life is your career, then getting fired is devastating.

Amen. I made a concerted effort to round out my life outside of work because I've been so unhappy there--joined a sports league, made friends from lots of industries (not just tech), new relationship...these were quite hard given my introverted nature but man am I thankful I have them now. Thanks for your input.
Even then they realized it was a losing battle. Apple is an Apple shop and even they couldn't use their own gear at scale. I'm sure when the Xserve team saw racks and racks and racks of generic kit in Apple's own datacentres they realized they weren't going to win.

You're right that the Mini is a very capable workgroup server, and providers like http://macminicolo.net/ are hosting Mac "servers" by the thousands, so it's not like they've completely given up. Intel's the only other player in this space with their NUC machines and those tend to cost as much or more.

Hopefully they'll kit out the Mini better in the 2018 iterations. That 2012 quad-code i7 variant was an exceptional unit.
Thank you, please excuse my pre-coffee ramblings and mentally strike "preprocessor" from my comment;)
Apple to slash iPhone X January-March output by half
Holy downvotes, Batman.

My two cents on population: cars are a cancer on modernity. For a hundred years we have structured cities and societies around the automobile. As a result we as a species are largely bound to an expensive machine and a design of society that cannot function without that expensive machine. Many cities (especially in America, which is an enormous country with lots of space) are so sprawled out and gutted from public transit (thanks GM!) that transportation is impossible without the automobile. It’s even worse when you factor in the fact that a lot of freight is also required to be moved by automobile.

Sprawl increases costs of transportation and infrastructure (roads, water, gas, electric, sewage) by an enormous degree. This in turn raises the cost of everything else to everybody.

Even a perfect Jason Statham self-driving car would serve as a band-aid over a diseased organ.

The very difficult question we must ask if we expect to maintain our standard of living with a growing population and a planet rotting from overconsumption is how do we redesign ALL cities to operate at the lowest possible cost per person. Otherwise we continue to pass along the cost to the planet and the next generations...assuming there will be any...
As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing remotely in Talon's ballpark for voice, and these demos are just a sort of raw baseline. Every part of Talon will see significant improvements as I complete more of the upcoming features. Tech like Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant is too natural language processing focused to be reflective of the performance I've already demonstrated from a precise control scheme.

To my knowledge I am the only available high performance eye mousing project to not require a separate head tracker (I only require a $150 Tobii 4C eye tracker, and I do not use their integrated webcam head tracking system as it is not responsive enough).

I'm additionally planning to remove the ~$50-150 Dragon requirement for Mac users in the mid future.

I'm very committed to keeping the baseline software not just free, but a net negative cost over using other free solutions. As far as making it commercial, my current plan is to eventually charge a small subscription fee for extremely well integrated video game control systems, and a moderate subscription for professional input schemes like CADD, A/V products, and entire language models built around natural language programming that would ideally enable people who become injured to continue to work without much of any downtime.

These are some of the competition:

Voice:

- http://voicecode.io/

- https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/aenea

- https://github.com/synkarius/caster

- https://www.voicebot.net/

Eye/Head Tracking:

- http://precisiongazemouse.com/

- http://iris.xcessity.at/

- https://github.com/trishume/PolyMouse

- https://github.com/trishume/FusionMouse

(huge shout out to trishume, who was very helpful and a big inspiration for my tracking system)

One of my upcoming goals is to get a hands-free world-record game speedrun into the Awesome Games Done Quick stream.
Hache burgers... fond memories
I think you mean Score: -1, Illegal Humor.
That would imply that all of the companies listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies are scams. Which seems excessive.
Gates and Pinker are rich, ivory tower dwelling opiate peddlers.
Esports event issues apology after sending illegal DMCA notices to fans
the idea is to reduce risk, not eliminate it. thinking is, if you need 1000ct of any drug, you should probably see a health professional first; if you're going through the effort (and extra cost) of buying 63 packs of it, then there's probably nothing that could be done to stop you from whatever you are trying to do.
We recently had to do an ER visit. Simple stitches + observation for 3.5 hours. 4 hours in total. $7,900 billed to the insurance. Looks like they will pay most of it.

What pisses me off is they have some bureaucrat walking around the building, walking into various ER rooms, does absolutely nothing, stays for a minute, leaves, and then it shows up on the bill as $1000 with some nonsensical description.
Finding Family Ties to Indian Slavery in New Mexico
This is like those dotcom boom "all shares" sales or two companies contracting each other to record revenue.

No wonder they are both tanking if upper management is fully occupied playing valuation games and swapping chairs.
I see you’ve never actually experienced it? It is actually more intuitive for the average user, as the file name is updated across every application immediately. In fact, you can actually change the file name from the top of the window directly.
No. SCO is bankrupt, no income, very little or no funds.

Unfortunately, a law firm (BSF, Boies and two other names that I don't remember and won't bother to look up) signed up to handle the case and all appeals for a fixed up-front fee. That law firm is not broke, and is faithfully carrying out its promised duties, no matter how insane the overall effect is.
The article's purpose is to draw attention to renewable solutions with energy storage (e.g. batteries). "The significance of the tender result is the small additional cost of storage – between $US3 and $US7/MWh."
This is your experience, certainly not representative of any meaningful trends.
These claims are based on simplistic spread sheet models. We have REAL WORLD DATA. The real world experience throughout europe and the USA shows net losses. I repeat: if it worked the plants would be profitable and they would be going up without tax subsidies. Do you dispute this? Does the legal environment somehow prevent entrepreneurs throughout the western world from selling solar power into the grid?
https://readwrite.com/2011/07/22/javascript-was-no-accident/
Hi jeremy,

I am a web dev, JS being my first lang of choice :-), and i have been trying to get into machine learning/deep learning/AI, but I am having a information overload.

I have 0 knowledge about this field, so my question is should i just start with machine learning, instead of jumping right into deep learning ? Or is it ok to jump right into deep learning and is it possible to do all the stuff done with machine learning with deep learning ?

Just like when a person who shows an interest on learning to code I refer them to Python instead of C++, what do you recommend ?
So what if life objectively has no meaning? You can only experience it through your own subjective viewpoint, so why not find something that is subjectively meaningful to you?
I'm not sure.

But I'm also not sure they need to have any of your data.

The riot.im client lets you connect to your own Matrix server rather than an "official" one, so they're not really able to monitor your usage or know who you are unless the app is phoning home.

Maybe it's collecting analytics data? Would love to know. I only use the Riot.im app on mobile and use other clients for desktop usage.
I haven't heard of microcode updates that hurt stability before. Presumably the collapse of the embargo caused them to do an accelerated release, skipping their usual long testing cycle.
I have never heard of Status.im[0], but I'm glad that the Matrix protocol[1] and it's major[2] client implementation Riot.im[3]—received significant financial resources.

We, a small group of tech-savvy people, tried to use Riot client in the early summer of 2017, but it was far from being convenient for work needs. Poor UI/UX, overcomplicated E2E-keys sharing, sluggish interface (Electron, as you might have guessed) and awful mobile app. I'm not sure of the current status, but I hope now they'll be able to increase the pace of development and quality of the product, since Matrix is an excellent, federated post-XMPP/IRC protocol, which we lack today.

Upd: references and clarifications.

[0] https://wiki.status.im/The_Status_Network_Whitepaper

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-matrix

[2] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html

[3] https://riot.im/
As a backer of the Purism Librem 5, it's nice to see some funding money for Matrix.org, especially after their recent financial troubles. Good stuff!
>"Since the cap was tightened in 2004, firms hired between 20 and 50 percent fewer new H-1B workers than they might have hired had it remained at 195,000 visas per year."

> "The researchers find, however, that the reduced pool of foreign workers did not lead firms to hire more Americans, and conclude that this suggests "low substitutability between native-born and H-1B workers in the same skill groups."
Given the thinness of every crypto market and the rampant wash trading, there's a real chance of something bigger than the magic the gathering exchange fiasco
(1) I don't know how it's in the US, but in France the price for wind turbine projects must include underground electric cable setup and retirement of old turbines after x years.

I don't think it's included for any other kind of energy source.

(2) You are thinking the old way, the way fossil fuel formatted your thinking. There is always wind __somewhere__. There is always sun __somewhere__. We currently have very centralized way of harvesting energy. If we want to transition to alternative energy sources, it must come with changing the shape of the grid to accommodate a more decentralized system. Also partnership between countries would help a lot.
A direct link[0] to the PDF in case someone doesn't want to fill out the form:
https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles...

[0] - Always subject to change of course
Thank you for pointing this out. I spent so much time with the old ZX Spectrum, but I still totally missed the reference.

For context, Clive Sinclair is most famous for the ZX Spectrum computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
Great, another messaging app. My phone and desktop are overrun by them.
> Sooner or later, they'll sell my data

Digital oil. Makes the world go 'round.
True. Maybe Dell will keep majority control or do a Zuckerberg
Re #3: However, your sons' mental models need to include that sometimes people are dishonest and/or manipulative.
AI discovery in cancer drugs is definitely a good trend as it is halving the time to discover. However, the other four I fear are overblown. Old fintech is no close to being unseated by any startups. Lots of new online banks have gone and went in both US and Europe. The only reason wechat pay took off in China is because the credit cards and payment networks Wasn’t there. Plus its a singular entity mostly owned by the states that have no competition, and Chinese consumers are now concerned a lot about their data. As for crypto, Jason calacanis just sent out an email warning everyone about Bitcoin - That’s the top angel investor in Silicon Valley. As for China, tariffs and fines are now starting to hit China, with US, Europe, japan enacting barriers. China was able to get around some of that by setting up factories in Malaysia, Taiwan and other countries, but Europe and US have enacted tariffs around that. China’s trade is going to suffer greatly. And protectionism is going to be the theme going forward
Read the legal fine print... They say it's backed yes, but they did not say how to redeem. (hint: they have full right of controlling how usdt is "redeemed")
Reread, the insurance company did end up paying.

Its gambling.

The cost of sending a "we're not gonna pay" letter is very low, like $5. Then the labor involved in the appeals process is maybe $200. Lets say the average bill is $12K to the customer but negotiated its $6K to the insurance. That means if more than 200/6000 or about 3% give up and pay the $12000 to the hospital, the insurance company runs a profit, plus obviously they didn't pay anything for the service they contracted for which is worth an additional $6K to them. The finances are complicated.

Not many people can pay $12K out of pocket, but you only need a bit more than 3% to be rich or die in the hospital and get a life insurance benefit where it'll all get rolled up into the burial costs.

This is also a big data thing. Why waste maybe $200 on the appeal process if big data shows the customer is too poor to pay up, may as well honor the contractual obligation and pay because that $200 of appeals labor would be wasted. On the other hand if big data shows the customer is old/rich/cognitive issues then blow $200, $400, $1000 of labor on the appeals process because the odds will be much better. Lets say "big data" finds out the victim is looking to buy a house... sure would be a shame if something happened to that credit rating...

Targeted vulnerable people will be screwed over as a standard doctrine in the future of big data. Probably the "real story" of the linked article is some big data algorithm screwed up and incorrectly decided she could pay $12K.
What was the command? Did you have to run IOTA software from github to run it or did the command only use things like openssl etc...?
> Highly respected, four star general, Wesley Clark says that the Iraq war was about attempting to strip Russian influence out of the Middle East. That the plan was to knock over several of the dictatorships there, which were overwhelmingly friendly toward Russia and hostile toward the US and its allies.

> You're saying it was about oil primarily.

Those aren't conflicting explanations; the US is concerned about the friendliness of governments in the region largely because it cares about how they manage oil supplies (both for price and geostrategic reasons like making sure we have access and our enemies do not in a major crisis.)
would you recommend a patient take any drugs regularly without regular follow ups?
that's the danger of 1000ct over-the-counter. taking a couple of ibuprofens when you have a headache is one thing. taking enough to need 100s of them, without a professional recommendation is another.
Each of those organizations has a number of other projects alongside the main ones. This seems like a good outcome since it allows them to easily refactor things into separate repos or manage support tools rather than having inertial pressure making it easier to lump things into a single main project.
If war has become illegal, then perhaps it is time that we make Nuclear weapons illegal as well.

It only takes one bad actor to light the fuse that ends the world.