skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and that money, where did it come from? look at fortune 500, what percentage inherited it? what percentage inherited it from someone further down the ancestral line than their parents?
rich people without skill will squander their fortunes.
Both a middle class lifestyle and a modest home are moving targets. People eat out a lot more than in the 70’s, they have larger homes and smaller families, they have safer and more reliable cars, they live longer.

As far as being able to live where the jobs are this is a problem caused by NIMBYs. This is not a problem they have in Japan.
The authore of the depixelising algorithm actually also did something like that:

"Content-Adaptive Image Downscaling" http://johanneskopf.de/publications/downscaling/

I always thought it was sad that it didn't get as much attention. I think it could also interesting to use in thumbnail generation based on regular photos, for example.

Going to ask in that reddit thread if the author is already aware of this algorithm. Might be able to take some cool new ideas from it if they don't! :)
This is why very progressive countries implement combined paternal and maternal leave. If one spouse doesn't take it, the couple loses that time.

The pressure on men and women to take time off after a baby diminishes the effect you speak of.
The main enemy are Electron apps and this kind of framework would perhaps eliminate them.

Also I would prefer my flying car with autopilot over airplane.
> Do the company now need to fire 30% of this guys and is it a valid reason for firing (company can`t get sued)?

There was a five-year period for the changeover, so under most circumstances, natural fluctuation would have eliminated all need for firing. Some companies could have also had the possibility to increase the board's size.

But yes, ultimately some firings may have been required. But note that a seat on the board isn't much like a typical job. Board members almost always have a real job, are retired, or sit on multiple boards.
Or just give the clock a warm, friendly hug.
Also as far as I can see he was just cracking it to build a serial generator...

I'm not sure that's even illegal to distribute, since there is no copyright violation. There are some places that forbid breaking DRM, but telling other people how to break DRM is even weaker.
to strive for equality of outcome just means eliminating peoples choice. we had that in the past. a few million people died ...
Little trick for finding a company’s legal jurisdiction: see who they are in their privacy policy or terms of services. The lack of these policies is a red flag. The forum where the CEO makes his statement raises this red flag [1].

The CEO’s LinkedIn Page says he is Greek. “Flight Sim Labs” produces no hits in the Athenian corporate registry [2]. I did find a Flight Sim Limited in the U.K., but registered to a different person [3]. This British Flight Sim Ltd was formed about a month ago.

TL; DR Consider whether you, or customers like you, have legal recourse before executing someone’s blob.

[1] https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/announcement/11-...

[2] http://www.acci.gr/acci/shared/index.jsp

[3] https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11142081/officers
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I don't know how boards work, but can't they just expand the number of seats on the board?
A couple of things I apply for my own doings as software engineer:

- educate aspiring software engineers from other countries online by writing on your blog for free about software engineering topics

- in the long term, try to translate the content to other languages (maybe pay someone to do it)

- maximize your income and donate money to children's education in other countries, they need to have the chance to learn the English language in the first place to be able to consume all the free educational content and open source projects which can be found online

- if you put an educational course online for $99 to educate others about software engineering, think about developing countries where it's not possible to pay the $99 for a 5 hours video course, the price can be adjusted on a country base by something like PPP [0]

- [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity
At least soccer keeps in the gameplay (as well as basketball, hockey, etc). Baseball and football are mostly spent waiting for very brief moments of gameplay to happen.
I do understand the need to fight piracy, but breaking into my house, plundering through my stuff, taking photocopies of my files/ID/passwod/etc, is not the right way to do this (in my book).

At least they were smart enough to make this AV-proof. One of my favorite lines is: "please disable your AV while XYZ application is installed". I do understand that some applications require access to files/registry keys/etc, but this means they've done a crappy work on building the thing, and they cut corners by asking us to compromise our security for their lack of due process. Random example [1].

[1]: https://www.taxslayerpro.com/kb/676/temporarily-disabling-a-...
1. Banks colluding to fix Libor

2. Swap traders influencing their own banks Libor.

3. Banks fixing their Libor contribution to mis-represent the health of their business (possibly egged on by a government that doesn't want banks to fail)
Your point seems true in a universal context, but false in many limited or special contexts, like this one.

Making all prosecutors more likely to bring charges in cases they think they will lose sounds like a bad idea. The easy scary example is of prosecutors frequently bringing simple theft charges against people who just happened to be nearby a theft. It's obviously bad: huge numbers of potentially powerless, innocent people are exposed to extreme damage to their character, which they cannot fix and which may destroy their lives and health. The false positive dominates the situation, and its harm to society is clear.

In the specific case of top-level bank executives manipulating things like LIBOR, I think the balance just as clearly tips the other way. Consider the rarity of the crime, the impact of the crime, the size of the impacted group who may have charges brought against them (right or wrong), and the power of members of that group within society.

I posit that the crime is exceedingly rare (we're discussing a probable instance from over a decade ago), the impact of the crime is exceedingly high (by harming the entire financial apparatus of society, it can meaningfully cause real harm to millions, if not billions of people), the size of the group is exceedingly small (you could legibly write all of the potentially impacted people's names over decades on a small stack of A4 paper), and the power within society of members of the group is uniformly among the highest possible level in our society (they are by definition some of the richest and most well connected into the political, financial, and legal systems of the world).

Balance toward the false negative here implies that members of this class of potential perpetrator could feel more they are likely to get away with this specific crime. Balance toward the false positive implies that, when this massive crime is believed to have been committed, these few, powerful members are open to, let's say high chance of wrongful arrest, that they have the overwhelming ability to remedy the effects of via legal means after the fact.

The potential for meaningful harm to society seems to be decidedly on the side of allowing false negatives. In this specific, unbelievably narrow context, I am all for shifting the balance toward more prosecutions. I think that this is in line with the argument being put forward originally by the parent.
They can get to 50% with a coin.
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> OK - would you agree that this presents us with an ethical problem?

My instinct is that inequality is not inherently unethical if it's a fair reflection of people's skills and/or efforts. If people are so poor that their needs are going unmet that's an ethical problem, but those people are not made any worse off by the existence of wealthy people.

> How about a societal/practical problem? Is an unequal society sustainable?

An unequal society where people still feel like they're contributing something seems to be sustainable. I think we're hitting an issue where it becomes clear that some people have essentially no ability to contribute to society, and that might be unsustainable, but I don't think we can or should turn back the technological clock to make them able to contribute. At which point we're down to handouts or make-work jobs, and while I'm all for supporting the worst off, that doesn't address the fundamental problem.
Side-note, there are more woman in science in countries that's font enforce equality by law and have less woman-promoting courses at universities/clubs.

http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/11/which-three-eu-countries-...
This law only affects "allmennaksjeselskap" (ASA), which there was less than 300 of in Norway last time I checked. In short they are listed on Oslo Børs (OSE) and are publicly traded. For smaller companies, also called "aksjeselskap" (AS), there are some regulation there as well, but nothing compared to this. It has more about female representation in the company in general.
I think it's a human flaw to try and attribute meaning to everything. As far is I can tell, there is no meaning of life, meaning only exists in our own social construct as humans.
I remember in 7th grade i de compiled the client of a private server version of a popular video game for a learning experience.

When sifting through the files i found a method called 'fillHDD' which would recursively create files to fill your HD. I imagine this method was called when people were caught cheating.
It was 25-33km\h, yeah. But you can't drive faster than 40 in this kind of area legaly.

And the top cap for the city is 60 (except for things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Ring_Road, you can also go to 80 when overtaking and many people abuse this rule to go ~80 all the time)
Interesting question.

I'm not sure, but there have been a lot of economists who disagree with Piketty and written about where he goes wrong. I assume that this implicitly proves the other direction, that capital growth isn't larger than wage growth, or whatever, so it might be a good idea to look there.
I would think about which of these you see yourself doing more..

* statistical methods (more math)

* big, in-production model fitting (more python)

* quick, scrappy data analyses for internal use (more R)

For example, I would feel weird writing a robust web server in R, but it's straightforward in python. On the other hand R's shiny lets you put up quick, interactive web dashboards (that I wouldn't trust in exposing to users).
A few million people died in Iraq as well under the super-egalitarian, meritocratic, no equality of outcomes democracy of the USofA, so why does choice matter so much?
I had the same dilemma and eventually teamed up with a few others to start a non-profit technology company, to serve other charities. The industry often gets the edge of commercial tools not built for their needs, or ones that haven’t been updated in years.

For example Blackbaud is the market leader in non-profit software, they just launched the cloud version of their CRM product. You literally Citrix into a VM and screen share with a remote machine via your browser. It’s that bad.

We’re combatting that. Raisely (raisely.com) is our first product. It gives charities great fundraising tools, for free. This year for every $1 we spend building or supporting Raisely, a charity raises $38. It’s a huge ROI.

We can’t get VC funding though, so if engineering is your thing and this sounds appealing - we’d love the help.
There are people who refused lottery winnings... Minds are different and weird.

Edit: To directly answer your question, It's not about being sympathetic to the other. They just didn't deserve the money. You "feel" they envy of other people and ask yourself why you and not somebody else. At least if you were the legitimate heir you knew that your family earned it somehow...
No. Our sense of taste is far from good at measuring nutritional value.

It's simply good enough for humanity to survive without having to evolve a more accurate taste organ.
Related: Atmos clock

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmos_clock
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People often forget that while Moscow is in Russia - this is not Syberia or something. We have a bit more snow than Berlin usually and a bit lower temperature.
The idea of diversity on corporate boards isn't to mandate equal outcomes, it's that a more diverse board may be more inclined to provide equality of opportunity to the next generation.

That's why it's not a requirement for diversity in CXO positions. The board is a rather hands-off institution in most companies. They hire the CEO, on mostly just hold them accountable afterwards.
Yes that would make sense. It seems it's the article that's not making much sense:

> While the clock has not been wound [...] it has stopped on a number of occasions.

> when the ambient temperature has not fluctuated sufficiently to absorb the requisite amount of energy, the clock will not function

...so it's been wound.
I love that too. It's a wonderful teaching style where you get another piece of information for free along with the primary lesson. It makes it stick so much better too because you have more connections in your brain. It's similar to how I succesfully learnt French grammar which was to learn English grammar at the same time. I came out with twice the knowledge and something which is much more than the sum of its parts.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Python?
Howdy HackerNews!

I'm interested in HackerNews feedback and feature requests for Python. I am posing this question to the garrulous HN crowd, so I'm excited about it, and I'm sure this will be interesting!

Please include in your replies the following bullets:
- HEADLINE: 1-line description of the request

- DESCRIPTION: A lengthier description of the feature. Bonus points for constructive criticism ;-)

We're super interested in your feedback!

Thanks, HN!
I'd look at Dragonfly's stack first, as that's outperforming Linux at the moment.

Apples, Oranges, etc.
>you would be paying over $100

$100 is sheer fantasy. It might double the price of a shirt from $6 to $12.

>There aren't other options available. No President is going to preside over the term where all the trade deals were made alongside human rights conditionals

This is actually how it used to happen and this is partly how TPP was killed in Congress (by attaching an anti-slavery rider).

>You can boohoo about it all you want, but your chocolate, your coffee, your clothes, and your computer parts are all made by or had their materials harvested by slaves, and most likely you would scoff at voluntarily paying twice the price for all those commodities.

No, I'm more than happy to pay a extra for chocolate, coffee, clothes and computer parts if I get to live in a world where labor exploitation, environmental destruction and slavery is made more difficult.

Are you really willing to go on the record and state that your preference is for the opposite?
You mean a one off rogue developer who took it upon themselves to act
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scaling...it did. That is it had a ton of users using essentially the same product with a much smaller team, at one point.

Paying the bills.., IDK. Presumably they've determined that these people are useful in this regard. Otherwise, why have them? But from a first principles reasoning, it seems possible to sell add without thousands of ad sellers.
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Okay, can you answer what I asked?
If Twitter couldn't keep up with scaling then it wasn't being architected to scale, only to grow.

There are financial systems that handle millions of transactions per second because their designers sat down and designed systems that could scale by magnitudes.
Glucose is _not_ taste-neutral. Just less sweet than table sugar. Grab a bag of dextrose from AMZN and try it.
This is from MIT OCW course Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1]

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Ambitious. So, how are you doing ?
Thank you for your response.
How have you kept your motivation up with short exercises like Euler's? Writing articles is something I have never though of, but might give it a try. Thanks for the wonderful idea!
Does the fact that asian men are included not rule out racism and open the door to examine the issue further?
NSPredicate. Back in the day I fought through the CoreData only kinda SQL thing and eventually got a result but... These days I'd just shove it on SQLite and get 10x the performance for 10x less effort. God DAMN that was hard work.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co...
I’m not sure what would be required (currently few manufacturers get this right). Heaters take a long time to clear ice when starting if the car has a lot of snow and ice on it.

VW has a good solution for their rear camera which is actually hidden under a hatch (the VW emblem) so it’s protected when unused.

I’m picturing that future autonomous cars will need this type of solution for many sensors, similar to the “flip up headlights” of some 80s cars. Not least because lidars are also very expensive so you may not want them easy to grab from a parked car.
>we have his name available upon request of any authorities"

When someone is stealing from me, or causing harm to my business and my clients using my products, damaging my reputation, then I go to the Police, I don't wait for them to read an article on torrentfreak.com or the comments section in HN (which I think any security angency worth its salt must have an eye in here too).

I'm going to help them out!!!!!

Hey FSLabs people!!!

FBI website is https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/ (these guys know their e-crime stuffs, they can help you out!)

Lefteris Kalamaras is definitely Greek, so.. http://police.gr/ (I hear they got a decent e-crime fighting unit over there)

(don't say I never did anything for you FSLabs, and NO I don't want a free copy of your game on my PC)
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Dealing with large data processing problems my main tools are as follows:

Libs:
- Dask for distributed processing
- matplotlib/seaborn for graphing
- IPython/Jupyter for creating shareable data analyses

Environment:
- S3 for data warehousing, I mainly use parquet files with pyarrow/fastparquet
- EC2 for Dask clustering
- Ansible for EC2 setup

My problems usually can be solved by 2 memory-heavy EC2 instances. This setup works really well for me. Reading and writing intermediate results to S3 is blazing fast, especially when partitioning data by days if you work with time series.

Lots of difficult problems require custom mapping functions. I usually use them together with dask.dataframe.map_partitions, which is still extremely fast.

The most time-consuming activity is usually nunique/unique counting across large time series. For this, Dask offers hyperloglog based approximations.

To sum it up, Dask alone makes all the difference for me!
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It reminds me of Triggers Broom... he's had the same broom for 20 years...

http://foolsandhorses.weebly.com/triggers-broom.html
Presumably the 20-30 liberal crowd is also busy raising families and being involved with their communities.
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Bit hard to sell after a manager already made a public statement defending the practice.
> I am not sure I understand the distinction you make between your 1 and 2

The difference is that collusion between banks is cartel price fixing and is very illegal. The majority of reported cases of traders requesting rate moves did not fall into this category unlike the Hayes case.

For the cases where the traders were just asking their own setters to move the rate, there was no collusion. They work for the same company and not even in separate, Chinese walled departments.

Also, in the intra-bank cases, I don't recall seeing any where the setters were actually breaking BBA rules. The problem was that the rules were meaningless when there was no uncollateralised borrowing.

> I am not sure the impact on the market was nefarious

You're making a lot of assumptions. What is clear is that the interventions were material and directional. And that would have had an effect on both institutional and retail customers. That's usually the time when regulators get all medieval.
> author is arguing that the prosecutors were overly cautious, not that they should handcuff random CEOs

OP is saying Enrich (the guy being interviewed) went too far when saying about cases that would be lost: “but at least it would have struck some fear in the hearts of people.” I agree with the point about prosecutorial conservatism. But part of the conservatism is a product of proper restraint. Drug crime prosecutors show the opposite end of the spectrum; our criminal justice system aspires to a default of innocence for a reason.
I've used all three at one point and they are pretty similar and will get more similar in the future. For public repositories all are free. In my opinion now in 2018 there's no clear winner, just personal preferences.
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Ship of Theseus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Oh, that's an interesting question. I've seen a graph of (US) advertising spend vs GDP which seems to hold constant over the last 70 years.

But to lump all FB/snap/twitter into entertainment+advertising and get % of the population working for those companies would be interesting.
I could not find an explanation on how it works.
How could you possibly know when I am opening your PDF file ? I presume opening your PDF file will trigger some kind of http / socket request to a site that you control.
so how would you control companies'firewall ? and/or any other settings that could prevent my pdf reader to go online
You mean obviously the other way round. It's the typical US/UK propaganda.
Frucose doesn't go directly into blood as glucose (the basic energy form) and galactose (-> milk).

Wikipedia: "The European Food Safety Authority stated that fructose is preferable over sucrose and glucose in sugar-sweetened foods and beverages because of its lower effect on postprandial blood sugar levels". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose

"Fructose is often recommended for diabetics because it does not trigger the production of insulin by pancreatic β cells, probably because β cells have low levels of GLUT5, although the net effect for both diabetics and non-diabetics is debated. Fructose has a low glycemic index of 19 ± 2, compared with 100 for glucose and 68 ± 5 for sucrose. Fructose is also 73% sweeter than sucrose at room temperature, so diabetics can use less of it. Studies show that fructose consumed before a meal may even lessen the glycemic response of the meal. Fructose-sweetened food and beverage products cause less of a rise in blood glucose levels than do those manufactured with sucrose or glucose."
I've been using CoreData in a big project but the multithreading has been crashing my app a lot. Can anyone recommend me some alternatives for a simple, lightweight, 100% local data storage for iOS?
If the company cause the malware to be installed in your country, eg by bundling it with customer software for customers in your country, then the corresponding jurisdiction is almost certainly your own country.

There's a history of extradition to USA from UK for relatively minor unauthorised access; this seems pretty major in comparison.