skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this effect is small because of opportunity cost.

In Case A, google wins the bid, they gain the ad space, but gain no revenue.

In Case B, google does not win the bid, they lose the ad space, but do gain revenue.

Revenue and ad space are mutually exclusive, each is the opportunity cost of the other. Yes, in both cases google wins, but that is because google is the reason the ad space exists in the first place.
Leaked govt Brexit analysis says the UK will be worse off in every scenario
Because Tether obviously does not have $2.3 billion in cash reserves on hand, there probably isn't 1/10th that volume of fiat in the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem (not market caps, liquid cash that could be withdrawn). They're writing checks they cannot cash, plain and simple.

It's called "lying" and "fraud", your "but what if they did have the cash" is irrelevant, because they don't, and you're getting downvoted because you're aggressively refusing to address that point in favor of hypotheticals.

Could you hypothetically have a legitimate Tether token? Yeah, sure. Is the Tether Foundation on the up and up? Hell no.

There's a reason their auditor bailed before completing the audit.
I am guessing he works at a place that has a lot of servers that he connects to, and he wants to be able to use his editor on whatever server he is on.

I know this is an issue where I work. We have 40 thousand plus servers, and we aren't going to have everyone install their editor of choice on all those machines. If I have an issue I need to check on a server that requires some text editing, I have to use one of the default editors.
My #1 RV driving rule: Don't ever get in a hurry.
I'm still long on Rails. Outside of webapps that are just this side of native apps (but still shouldn't be native apps), Stimulus would provide all the real-time interactivity I would need.

That being said, there's so much Node.JS/React tooling I've gotten really used to that I'd miss.
>I could care less what EU law says
You need a way to sell to EU (if you wish to do business there).

Digital services (say from US) do require EU VAT registration. If you don't have that and your country has tax agreement with the EU (or some countries from EU), there is a risk to be prosecuted. It won't happen if you get like 1000 customers in each country of the EU (as the latter has no global tax organization like IRS).

Keep in mind also that if you have too much unexplained income your own tax authorities can investigate the case, incl. anti money laundering.

Bottomline is: it's rather hard to sell services (lest goods), in cases where you non-compliant with the laws.
Internet is not a magic wand.
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Well, in a true utopia it'd be unnecessary, because no one would hack the cars. Which would be nice, but... unlikely.

In any case, I agree that it's unlikely unless there's a severe disaster related to OTA updates, but it's still the best solution from a security and safety perspective.
> modern text editor with uncompromising performance

Solution in search of a problem.

I haven't run into an editor performance issue in more than twenty years.

I will gladly trade a hundred text editor performance fixes for one web browser performance fix.
It seems like early 2018 is rife with acquisitions and mergers. Was the recent tax law a factor? Seems like these acquisitions take so much time that it couldn't have been dependent on that. So why all this activity?
There are many traders that don't day trade. They set up a bunch of trades going forward a couple months and they just leave it. I've done this in the past. For example, you set up a bunch of buy orders starting at -25% of the current price and further down as it goes and a bunch of sell orders at +25% the price and a bunch up as it goes.

So then if you have volatility and you come back you can have double or triple your money. It's not a perfect system, but it's low work and you really only lose out if it goes to 0.

The problem with Bitcoin is that what do you sell it for? In many countries the only option is Tethers.
The nuances are tricky, it depends on how USDT is eventually treated by courts.

But, for example, if it happens to get legally treated as an unregistered security, then the exchange would be fully liable for the losses of their customers, since it was not allowed to sell unregistered securities to general public/unaccredited investors. And this argument by itself seems sufficient to press a serious prolonged case, even if the courts later decide that no, this interpretation isn't the right one.

In general, being an intermediary in shady products may easily mean that you're (also) liable. "Normal" stock exchanges and stock brokers are the exception, they have specially listed immunity exceptions that apply if and only if they fulfil a bunch of conditions; otherwise people may well sue you to cover their losses just because it seems that it's easier to enforce judgments on you than a Hong Kong company.
Yes and then no (or not without US help).

The British empire outproduced, manufactured, mined etc the Germans for basically the entire war. The question is more about why it took so long for the allies to get the upper hand.

The idea of ‘the plucky underdog’ is a myth, Britain was very much a superpower with a massive, resource rich empire behind it.

https://www.amazon.de/Britains-War-Machine-Weapons-Resources...
Text editors shouldn't have a "core" and "front end" and "protocol".

Monolithic machine executable that fits into under a meg of RAM and comes up in a fraction of a second from a cold invocation.
"On an unrelated note, I wonder why they were wasting all these massive logistics into piling rocks in middle of the dessert, when they could, you know, be building roads or dams or walls across all their frontiers"

Was that rhetorical?

In case not: religion. They believed it served a higher purpose. The afterlife of their godlike emperor. And all who took part and did good, got better chances of a better afterlife themself ...
I find this all quite hilarious, seeming I'm running this on a 2009 white Macbook running on High Sierra, running like a dream. Granted I only use it for some media stuff, but it works great on this oldest supported device for HS by Apple. Yes I had to bump the HDD to SSD and RAM to 8GB, but it is still usable.
From what I recall they decided against full Python support in favour of a C "API" that people can bind their favourite languages to. There's already Python, Nim, and D as well as some early support for Rust.
People who are fresh out of school can be way overconfident, in part because they don’t know what they don’t know yet. No generational trends required, I was certainly that way in the ‘90s.

So many times when I hear people complain about kids today and contrasting it with themselves at the same age, they’re comparing how they thought of themselves at the time (which is usually very different from how other people saw them), vs how they view someone else today. It’s a variant of, we judge ourselves by our motivations but we judge other people by their actions. It’s a very difficult thing to be objective about.
Thanks. The question will be if owning the best or first autonomous driving logic, good enough that can be mass deployed, will be such a big advantage to make the fact you can make a good car almost irrelevant compared to that.
> are you saying that cptskippy's point about individual lines on the provider side is either nonexistent or irrelevant?

I'm saying that the marginal complexity introduced by private plans is actually quite small compared to the complexity that Medicare already creates. Furthermore, the complexity that private insurers introduce is both directly and indirectly linked to the way Medicare structures its billing and reimbursement policies.
It is pretty narcissistic if older generations, now having accumulated wealth and political/economic power, leave younger generations to fend for themselves with a big bill that they've racked up (environmental, underinvestment in infrastructure, large national debt, destruction of social safety nets of all sorts, consolidation of bargaining power in the hands of capital instead of labor, etc) while they pursue personal pleasures.
This makes sense. Red Hat has been investing in Project Atomic for a while now and CoreOS still seems like a better option, if you're looking for a container-only OS that has been battle tested.

Additionally, both companies seem like good places to work, with leadership that's often praised and has the results to show. I'm happy for CoreOS on this one, they're joining a company that I admire.

Looking forward to see how this will impact RHEL8.
No kidding. The "laptop" page says (emphasis mine):

Many of us have replaced our desktop systems with a laptop, as they are affordable, portable, and just as powerful as a traditional desktop PC. Laptops have screen sizes ranging from 9-inches to 17-inches, measured horizontally. Laptops with screens smaller than 11-inches are called netbooks while full-screened laptops are called notebooks. Some laptop models include built-in hardware to connect to wirelessly to a 3G or 4G networks and often require a data contract with a mobile phone carrier. Many laptops include built-in Wi-Fi modems and software to make portable computing easy. Some of the most recognized names for laptops are Apple, Dell, Sony and Acer. Kelkoo has all of these brands and more. You can be assured that you’ll find the best laptops at the absolutely lowest price from online retailers you know and trust.

And the third product lsited under laptops is a razor: https://www.shaver.eu/en/shavettes/proraso-shavette?utm_camp...

But look in archive.org and it is clear who they are and what their beef with google is: they are Yahoo. See the "a yahoo company" at the very top of this archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20050701004143/http://www.kelkoo... (you'll need to collapse the archive.org banner on top - it is hidden behind it by default)
Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert
I use my personal journaling/habit-tracking app, https://github.com/ioddly/meditations , so I can keep everything private. When I'm out and about, I'll store them on Google Keep and transfer them manually when I get home.
...on USDT. how are they even benefiting from this?
Blog post from Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/coreos-bet

Red Hat FAQ: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos

CoreOS Blog post: https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-agrees-to-join-red-hat/

(Added FAQ and CoreOS links)
Fraud, for accepting "USD" deposits and hiding the fact that they silently convert your balance to USDT.

And they don't have to win the lawsuit, they just need to not get it dismissed outright and scare others into leaving the exchange.
I think you'll get the same feeling in the 3. But all indications are way more knee/head room than you'd expect. Not sure which one I'd rather have, but I also never sit in the back up my own car, and my kids are still in car seats.
The T8?
Self-Driving Cars Are Overdue for a Reality Check
> But if you break the law to disrupt the financial system

That's quite the generous description of this $600 million scam operation that was apparently completely full of shit from day one.

I mean Uber does some shady things, but it's not a scam.
I think my point is less concerned with a value judgement about algorithms, and more concerned with prompting critical thinking about how and who develops the algorithms, to what ends, the vectors by which subjectivity seeps into them, and how that affects their behaviors.
I should amend my statement, beautifully formatted text. Typography is everything.
The whole point of strava is to share your location online.
Hard problem of conciousness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...
Maybe there's another option the creators selected that they think correlates to reading Chinese. Maybe they went for some pan-Asian option. "Uh, anyone who reads Chinese, Korean, Japanese is probably fine".
Xers were cast as cynical and fatalistic. And I think often when one's desires are presented as harmful to the future, it helps to look at the source of the framing.
> Is the iOS support good?

Well it's officially supported so I'd imagine so.
Couple that with (asymptotically) infinite energy demand just to support the network...
Ask HN: Knowledge gap between machine learning research and a functioning model?
I have been asked to implement an unkown machine learning algorithm that has been researched and proven by a team from a top University.

The goal is to build a functioning machine learning model and a series of software products around it.

For anyone with experience in this type of academic research or the software implementation of it, how much actual knowledge of machine learning should I have before attempting this?

Should I expect the research algorithms to work with minimal changes?

Or should I expect to fully rewrite the model using the research as a rough guide instead?
People ask for sources about your harsh claims and you share various multiple hour podcasts that "you have to watch it to the end".

Some people may not be able to code but others are not even able to argue.
Why would Valve sell?
> Intel didn't buy Digital

Compaq did. Rose to glory as an IBM PC clone maker, had enough cash to buy busted out DEC, dwindled away in turn to be purchased by HP, if memory serves.

Sic transit.
he specifically mentions GMOs

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/10/why_bill_nye_c...
NB 'mouser' is still in the file; not giving too much away if I say you don't seem to have logged in this millennium :)
Selling a large slice of the tokens to a small group of specific investors, such that they obtain a much larger price when these are listed. Because they were in so few holders from day0, and the 'auction' closed so quickly, price discovery entirely up to small group of 'investors'. Its birthing shark whales to steal from the little people.

This was back before the real real ICO scams, so it looks pure in comparison. 2017, what a year!
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Also consider nearly all corporations are "premined" in the sense that only a few early founders/early investors control more then half the shares and new investors don't have equal access to buy shares as easyly (sic) or cheaply as those other investors.
Ransomware and the Case for Software-as-a-Service
just like they banned political ads in the past election...
The page says that it's GNU licensed but where I can I find the source?
let's just say when there will be a run to the banks, Kraken is not likely to be the one with the longest opening hours.
I was responding to the "reward users for sharing content ... and attention" part, just not as a social network. Those already have been established (one could argue YouTube is a good functional example of that), I don't anticipate much innovation happening there.

But, the concept of content value, no matter where it resides, intrigues me.
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> Fraud, for accepting "USD" deposits and hiding the fact that they silently convert your balance to USDT.

Other than Bitfinex (with he comingling issue mentioned upthread), I understood the main use case for USDT on exchanges is to avoid even touching USD transactions in either direction; for exchanges doing this, they wouldn't be at risk here.

> And they don't have to win the lawsuit, they just need to not get it dismissed outright

Right, but I'm not seeing where you get a colorable cause of action that avoids that for a typical USDT-supporting exchange from a USDT value collapse.
-1? The submission begged the comment.
They went completely over the top as a phony bank. Their web site is down, but archived by the Internet Archive.[1] They claimed to be a VISA card issuer. They claimed to own a FDIC-insured bank. They claimed to have ATMs. Plus they had a make-money-fast scheme where their "AIs" would invest for you.

The only real question is "why aren't they in jail yet?"

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180110101846/https://www.arise...
Prestel was GEC's GEC 4082's Telecom Gold Was Pr1mes I think all 750's

I should have really had a trip out to baynard to check it out as I was I suppose the dev-op on the Dialcom side working on the new Billing system.
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Plumbers do not charge that for forty hours per week.
Also, if all goes to shit, a bar of gold can still be used to club someone to death and take their supplies.

Compare with bitcoin, which has no physical form and is only usable in context of present economy of technological civilization.
Was that addressed to me? I certainly wasn't attempting to diss the community at large.

Yes, sometimes the pedantry and "um actually" nature of this place bugs me, but that's just what happens in gatherings of nerds.
Oh noes my vertically integrated company can out compete competitors
Some branches of academia (high energy physics) list authors alphabetically.
The .xpi file is essentially a .zip in disguise (all Firefox add-ons work like this). Unzip it as normal and read the source. Aside from the manifest, it's 5 lines.
> The "team" page for them are mostly Russian / Eastern European.

What's wrong with that?
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> This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case.

I can't speak for the quality of their product but this is absolutely not true, Kelkoo has been around since 1999[0], almost as long as Google itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelkoo
I was with Kaiser for a long time because I never needed a doctor. When I did, I had to fire kaiser. They nearly killed me. Talking to my coworkers, it turns out this is quite common. They hire a lot of people that received their medical degree in countries with much lower standards. It's actually quite concerning how many people I know IRL that lost friends due to misdiagnosis by Kaiser. It doesn't help that you can't (easily) sue them. You agree to a non arbitration clause.

I see a lot of folks praising KP in this post and it's very concerning.
It's possible to tell the difference between genuine, authentic sharing, and automation. Rewarding the right behavior will make spam go away.
BMW owns the carsharing service DriveNow together with Sixt. Sixt just agreed (today? yesterday?) to sell their stake to BMW so that Car2Go and DriveNow can merge.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-daimler-carsharing/bm...
Agreed. Yes probably more like 60.
> Zing uses a different solution to keep it consistent despite object relocations, in which they delay storing the id. hash until the object relocates. At that point, it’s stored in a “pre-header”

IIRC, that's an old David Bacon invention [1]:

> For non-moving collectors such as mark-and-sweep, the system can define the default hash code of an object to be its address, or more generally, a function thereof. For moving collectors, we can use the tri-state encoding technique from Bacon et al. [7] (also developed independently by Agesen and used in the Sun EVM), where the states of an object are unhashed, hashed, and hashed-and-moved. For the first two states, the hash code of the object is the address. When the collector moves an object whose state is hashed, it changes its state to hashed-and-moved and copies the old address to the end of the new version of the object. If space is available, the system can encode hash code state in two bits in the object header .

[1] See section 3.3 in http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dgrove/papers/ecoop02.p...
How incredibly convenient for them that their choice to use underpowered batteries leads to a situation functionally identical to planned obsolencense having a valid technical justification.
Paradoxically, the speeds that I'm getting from my rMBP13 for SMB transfers are comparable over Ethernet (both Apple Thunderbolt adapter and rangom assortment of TB2 docks) to Linux and Windows machines, but over Wi-Fi, rMBP is much faster than any Linux or Windows machine I have. The Mac machine is 802.11ac 3x3 MIMO by Broadcom, while the others are only 2x2 by Intel, but I'm not sure that the speed difference could be explained just by this factor.

Yes, there were small bugs in the past, like waiting for some timeout when browsing shares on the server when the auth is done via Kerberos, but they were ultimately fixed.
When you say "outsider", be sure that you don't mean the racist "tragic mulatto" viewpoint that mixed blood inherently (ie, from biological reasons) leads to tragedy and hurt.

Even when seen as 'outsiders', meaning, as part of a different ethnic group, it's still not uncommon under European colonial rule that mixed white/black people have more privilege than black people. That is, what you say is not at odds with what magic_beans said.

Spanish rule in the Americas had race-based caste system. This included New Mexico. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain :

> Eventually a caste system was created to describe the various mixes and to assign them a different social level. ... The upper echelons of government were staffed by Spaniards born in Spain (peninsulares), the middle and lower levels of government and other higher paying jobs were held by Criollos (Criollos were Spaniards born in the Americas, or—as permitted by the casta system—Spaniards with some Amerindian or even other ancestry.[139]) The best lands were owned by Peninsulares and Criollos, with Native communities for the most part relegated to marginal lands. Mestizos and Mulattos held artisanal positions and unskilled laborers were either more mixed people, such as Zambos, recently freed slaves or Natives who had left their communities and settled in areas with large Hispanic populations.

Haiti inherited the French racial caste system. Quoting now from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti :

> Haitian mulattoes became the nation's social elite and racially privileged. Numerous leaders throughout Haiti's history have been mulattoes. Comprising 5% of the nation's population, mulattoes have retained their preeminence, evident in the political, economic, social and cultural hierarchy in Haiti.

In the South African apartheid system, "coloured" people (with mixed heritage) had higher status than "African" people (meaning black). While not explicit at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid you can infer from "Blacks were provided with services greatly inferior to those of whites, and, to a lesser extent, to those of Indian and coloured people." that black people were less privileged than mixed race people.
Since the restructuring, it is Alphabet that is publicly traded. As a result Waymo is part of the publicly traded entity equally to Google. You can already invest in Waymo by investing in Alphabet.
It depends. Does does he do more good by being there, to keep the doors open and to support some NASA programs? Or does he do more harm by allowing the ultra-conservatives to say, "hey, the science guy supports us?"
Bill Nye and the State of the Union
Can you please comment on Xi as a general editor and specifically in relation to vim and Emacs, arguably the two best general editors from the last few decades.

Thanks!
Do you have any examples of these types of blockers? I couldn't find any.
> and if it isn't a fraud it will stay right where it is

I'm not actually qualified to give investing advice. But this part isn't strictly true. In a functioning market, the price could be depressed by the regulatory uncertainty. If that were the case and it was cleared up, you would see the price rise.
Truly the height of engineering achievement; addressing letters.
It has always had metric options. First thing I change in settings.