skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd hope in high profile cases (or really all cases), a hash of the entire drive could be taken upon seizure and given to a lawyer before any forensics started.

Don't know much about forensics and maybe this already happens, but is surely a good way for both sides to avoid unfounded accusations.
I have the same laptop with intel gfx, works like a dream, no spyware.
For existing only 3 years in one of the greatest bull markets, it’s a little early to call the value in GBTC.
Netflix pricing page teardown (4.5k+ data points)
Dec64 does not reflect what happens in real business any more than IEEE floats does. "There is no reals" applies to currency too, but in a stronger form: in currency there are no fractions either. Translation: in real life, no one can give you a fraction of a cent. So the programmer has to make a decision about what happens to those fractions when you give 1/3 off.

Every newbie programmer tries to avoid thing about this by using IEEE floats. They discover, usually years later after some anal auditor has come down on them like a ton of bricks for the hundredth time because the dropped low order bits from 1/3 of a cent hit that 1 in a billion case and effected a significant digit, and then it finally dawns that 1 in a billion isn't really 1 in a billion because thousands of such calculations get combined into a single profit and loss figure that is out by 2 cents and chasing that 2 cents for 2 weeks really only to discover it was caused by a computer can't compute, really, really pisses off the auditor, that you realise if aren't thinking about those fractions of a cent as hard as a C programmer focuses on malloc(), they will have gone to whoop whoop in half the code you have written. You will have nightmares about divide signs for the rest of your life. Crockford seems to think Dec64 allows the programmer to avoid thinking about the problem. He is just as wrong as every newbie programmer.

There is only one safe format for currency that accurately reflects this reality, that forces you to accept that you must think about those fractions of a cent. It is the humble integer. You put in it the lowest denomination: cents in the case of the USA. And then when you write total = subtotal / 3 * 4, and you test it, your error stands out like dogs balls, and you fix it.
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Well, what is it? If you have a a 10 year head start then publicizing what you actually do would seem to be the quickest approach.
Politics on HN. BOO!
Anyone ever searched a flag for a python library and been swept away into some weird gamified recruitment test?

Some years ago in a googs search box i searched for some flag for 'python3 itertools' and googs immediately took me to a subdomain saying, 'does this sort of thing interest you? This is the kind of work we do here at the goog.' then something to the effect of enter your email and answer some obscure python question

Out of curiosity I answered the first few questions but after about four I was more bothered than intrigued and closed the tab and redid the search and this time googs gave me the results I was looking for

It was the only time it's ever happened to me..

Has anyone else ever seen this?
>In my opinion, the main issue with many financial services today is heavy regulation.

Money (which is the root of finance) is incredibly strong stimulus for humans that evokes all kinds of human vices. Sooner or later, anything that deals with finance and mine will come down to the questions of human nature and morale. And these are tough matters to deal with.
I spent ~20 hours to do the logotype for www.twilam.com

I could have made much better use of that time if I'd outsourced it, but I didn't like look of the logotypes I saw on 99designs and Fiverr, and didn't have a recommendation from a friend, so wasn't sure how to pick a designer.

I tried modifying existing fonts but in the end drew it 'by hand' in Inkscape.
I don't really view bazel as being that complicated to set up, what makes you think that?
40 BRL can pay a lunch in a very good restaurant, maybe not the commoner's bit understandable.

100 BRL would pay a buffet in a fancy barbecue shop, the absolute limit for me.

200 BRL+ is completely unnaceptable. Do they want to eat at a bistreau with public money?
Perry Preschool results still look much less impressive at the age 40 followup (e.g. 36% of those w/ the intervention had been arrested 5 times vs. 55% of the control group). I think almost anyone who's seriously looked at this topic agrees early interventions have some effectiveness and are the sensible/ethical thing to do.

If you agree that we shouldn't expect to do "much better" than 36% being arrested 5 times, 35% not graduating high school and 40% having a job earning less than $20k/year, then you probably agree w/ the parent commenter.

http://library.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/default/files/P...
That’s good to know. It’s true my last attempt was on a low end laptop. My qualms about my daily applications remain. I’m sure I’ll keep trying.
I am either an evil person for paying my rent, drinking coffee, eating a salad and reading wikipedia on my phone while dressed, or you are a moron.
How affordable is it? Always wanted to spend some time in Scotland, and love the idea of checking out a tech scene.
Oh, good.

Now maybe taco trucks can have less stringent health codes.
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That's to make it difficult for a player to calculate the odds of a particular hand. The odds of the overall game are still pre-defined and regulated.

My Average Joe brain is too small to calculate probability when there are a bunch of hands involved, much less one. It is, however, large enough to place bets on which cryptocoins might be more useful than others, based on a lot of data and current event news that I have access to.

Casinos can't/won't promise that you'll make money by playing their games. Securities are generally purchased with the expectation that you'll make money, and are marketed up to the allowable line of suggesting they are good ways to make money.

I don't recall Coinbase or any exchange promising anything. And trading is just that - trading. There are waves of ups and downs of supply and demand, of various volumes of buys and sells that lead to intraday, intraweek swings in which you can attempt to play your 'hand'. Even if you don't believe in the underlying security, you can attempt to ride those waves using technology provided to you by GDAX or Bittrex or whatever - the entire order book is laid out for you to learn and think about, and speculate on. That's easier to parse than odds for .. a blackjack hand? Even a roulette wheel probability play requires some basic training in probability.

The Casino ALWAYS wins, in aggregate.

Allowing people to play a game where the odds are openly against them, vs. buying a security where they're being told the odds favor them but it may be otherwise, are very different propositions when you're asking if they're "fraud"

Okay, fine, so then regulate the 'telling' part and not the 'playing' part. I don't recall being told that the odds favor me. I was presented with an interface that let me purchase these coins. There were no words telling me what to do or not to do. The only people telling people what to do are peers and various Internet news sources that no one is obliged to follow.
I found a message in a bottle in Hamburg. Never did figure out what it says though. If anyone on HN is up for the challenge, here's a photo of it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TximCkxHoliDmnwy1
Considering it has spent 132 years floating in the ocean and then god knows how long sitting around in the sand what’s the harm?
Fair question, and one that might require some digging to get to.

If you're interested in this, the US BLS household expenditure survey data, or some metric of industrial activity data, might be useful. The HHES would provide a baseline on spending by category and should include clothing. The industrial data might provide metrics on quantities of textiles produced, possibly measured by either fabric area (e.g., yards) or mass (e.g., tons).

Total purchases of clothing as measured in garments or outfits have probably risen over this time, though I'm saying that without a strong basis in data. Much of this has to do with the introduction of more synthetic fabrics -- clothing is such a strong indicator of time period in large part because of the number of synthetic textiles (and garments utilising them) that became available over the 20th century, from early viscose rayon, to nylon, polyester, and other materials. This resulted in a shift of fabrics from cottons (mostly working-class) and wool (professional), with some leather and fur (high-ticket items) to a wide range of single- or blended-fibre fabrics, as well as various dyes and other treatments.

(I'm not an expert on the field, by any stretch, though I've been becoming increasingly aware of these developments, underlying technology, and numerous implications.)

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Expenditure_Survey

I've not found any readily-available long-term historical data based on a quick search, though I'm sure it's available if you know where to dig (or dig long enough to find out).
Your argument is basically an encouragement to participate in the tradgedy of the commons. Just because other people are already doing evil doesn't give you an excuse to do more!

None of the things you listed are fundamentally evil, they're just arenas in which the specific bad ethics of other individuals can play out. Other similar arenas include everything else in life. Is that a license to join in? No, it's all the more reason to make sure that everything you do is good.
This sounds similar to a popular meme:

1. "some developers to add polish, marketing, advertising to draw customers"
2. ???
3. Profit

In reality it's much harder than that. And while I haven't gone to YC, it's clear that they thought what they would benefit from YC in terms of funding, connections, and expertise is worth more than what they were giving up in equity.
eBay seems to have cultivated a marketplace rigged toward maximizing fees at all costs while disregarding fair and ethical treatment of its sellers. In some jurisdictions their prejudice against sellers is arguably in violation of anti-deceptive trade practice legislation. It will be interesting to see where this case goes. If a mall treated its tenants the way eBay treats its sellers the mall would quickly find itself facing copious litigation.
You can't stop it because you don't control your friends. These are their pictures, their email conversations.

I fear the set of Orwellian rules that would be required to make you happy.
There's more cryptocurrencies than circulating currencies now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies
You're missing one important thing here.

These spendings that Serenata's robot tweets are literally reimbursements that congresspeople receive from the federal government for spendings needed while "on duty".

They aren't paid using their salaries. If that was the case, there would be no problem (legally speaking).
I used to run Debian but my packages would always end up in some kind of dependency hell where I couldn't upgrade to newer versions.
Is this not just picking a different abstraction? What is a “chemical” besides a collection of atoms? What is an “atom” except (some hand-wavey quantum stuff that I certainly don’t understand)? Why give primacy to the chemicals over the atoms or the quantum field?

We could go the other direction too, and consider it significant that we are a tiny part of a giant living body that is the planet. Does it stop there? Could we comprehend it if Earth itself was a part of some vast active living intelligent system, in the same way that we believe a bacterium or a cell cannot conceive that it is part of our own human body, seeing it simply as “the environment”?

It all gets fairly philosophical pretty quickly. I certainly don’t have any answers, but I will say that I find it a little suspicious how when we move far enough in any direction from the scale we ourselves operate on, our understanding of how things work devolves rapidly towards relatively simple deterministic or probabilistic equations, while our own life experience is rich and rooted in desires and decision-making.
Post may have been by Tynan (http://tynan.com); he's big on working while on transatlantic cruises. Following his advice, I have done the same thing several times.

Here are some tips:
- Find the best cruises most easily on cruisesheet.com (disclosure: it's Tynan's project)

- Royal Caribbean has the best internet at sea through O3b. In the Caribbean or Mediterranean it's about 70ms latency. In the middle of the Atlantic it's about 220ms latency. So Skype may work but the delays are annoying. Plenty of bandwidth now though. You may have only "one 9" service on average though. So scheduled conference calls are always a gamble.

- Repositioning cruises (many ships move from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and back seasonally) in April/May and October/November are the cheapest cruises you'll ever find. 5-8 days at sea means plenty of time to get some work done, as well as goof off a bit during the evenings. For the second week (Europe or Caribbean), I find it easy enough to get an hour or two of email catch-up in on port days after getting back from a shore excursion, but it's easier to just say port day = vacation, sea day = work and great food.

A 2-week repositioning cruise may cost as little as $600 per person including taxes and fees. Add another $200pp for gratuities, a few $hundred for shore excursions, and a few $hundred for airfare to get back home. Depending on where you go, you may get the benefits of a 2-week vacation for the price of one on land.

Similarly, if you want to do a one-week offsite with your startup (particularly if you're all remote most of the time anyway), this is probably cheaper than flying your crew to any big city.

The seminars-at-sea model was also well proven out by geekcruises.com, now renamed insightcruises.com

My wife and I have been renting an off-season beach house near Boston for 8 months out of the year for less than the price of a basement studio in Cambridge, then traveling during the summer. This means our repositioning cruises are further discounted by the fact that we aren't paying rent or mortgage on an empty house. It's hard to beat if you both have good schedule flexibility.
The evidence would have been planted by the civilian tech before seizure.
Maybe a plumber bringing his drug sniffing dog with him and having that do a search of the house...
Consume Promise aware APIs and handle errors or promise rejections efficiently
> I noticed that output debugging message is still the go-to method for many programmers even though they are aware of the presence of more advanced debugging tools such as break-point based debugger, which are often integrated in the IDE.

The interim output debug message is the one method that is always available in whatever environment one happens to be programming in. When there is no debugger available, one could not use "the debugger" even if one wanted to do so.

Also, your statement presupposes that one is using an IDE. Some of us programmers out here despise all IDE's and never, ever, program with an IDE, ever. When there is no IDE, there is no "debugger ... integrated in the IDE".
In what way have they crippled it? Its had tons of new features since the acquisition - which is especially noticeable because it languished without updates for years prior. A lot of people are upset at the subscription model but so far I've been getting good value for my money.

Case in point they've drastically improved the horrible CAM export process in previous versions. And push and shove routing is a god send.
There is a concept in index weighting called float-adjusted where you remove shares that have not been issued.

that isnt really the same as what you are talking about, but it is a similar concept. The real problem would be finding out how many bitcoin exist or have been lost. I dont think there is any way to do that at this time.
and don't forget about gEDA. gEDA was around long before KiCAD, so I have a signifcant investment in libraries, etc. I haven't used KiCAD so can't compare them. Just Pointing out that there are two open source alternatives.
How fast is the network connection, if present? There's been massive strides in optimizing JS performance in the past few years, so a system prior to those is going to struggle with many of the modern frameworks. If the network is fast, you might get snappier results doing more things server-side.
Arguably our wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq weren't really supporting our lifestyle at all. They huge mistakes and wastes of money. Our way of life won't really change if the Taliban take over Kabul using Pashtu tribal lands as a staging ground. If we wanted oil from Iraq we could have just dropped sanctions.
If anyone's interested in a similar concept, Iconomi does a number of managed funds. I don't believe any are actual indexes (BLX comes closest with market cap weighted - https://www.iconomi.net/dashboard/#/daa/BLX) but they do cover a number of different crypto spaces.

Also Crypto20 does an index of the top 20:

https://crypto20.com/en/
FWIW, this a nice miniature C project to noodle with Makefiles and some basic C if you're new to it.

If you're on macOS, just slap a quick `brew install sdl2` before the instructions and it's golden - assuming you run https://brew.sh/
Present Day Party():
Any reason you chose highcharts over charts.js or plotly.js ?
In fairness, can you name a time in WW2 where the US government intentionally killed US citizens without regard to due process? There is supposed to be a strict separation of never using the military against the citizens of the united states. We have the national guard for a reason. Capturing those targets wasn't an objective, the government wanted them dead and it didn't afford any of those American citizens the rights laid out in the constitution.

How is that any different than murder?
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"narrow-minded fantasy by privileged white people"

Apparently not wanting to be evil is now reserved for privileged white people.

I'm a liberal, and I consider this type of logical & sentiment to be the exact thing that alienates independents and right-leaning individuals.

Peace is something that is commonly desired and should be promoted. "Good" is the same.

Beyond that, I personally think you're casting a wide net of "evil." Your facts are accurate, but if something is sourced from the work of an illegal immigrant... does that make it evil? Is something made overseas for pennies evil?

It seems to me you're talking about all imbalance in the world to be "evil." We're on our way as a civilization towards more equality, and poverty lines around the world prove this. What's driving that? Markets.
Well, I'm biased because it's my company, but we use VESvault CloudDash matrix for this. It allows you to encrypt, organize and share critical information to specific people or a team. You can set up an "entity" which can be a family, business, team etc. Each entity has it's own matrix - rows are people, columns are apps or items that you create. For each cell, you can deposit critical information such as passwords and then selectively share it with each person. For example, you can create your bank as an app, deposit your banking information and share or not share it with each person in the entity. If you don't share it, even it you die everything is organized and can be retrieved if you properly set up the VESrecovery function. So your personal stuff is encrypted and protected, and yet it is shareable and recoverable. www.VESvault.com
Isn't that true of most businesses that aren't Facebook/Twitter/Walmart size? I agree with what you're saying, but it seems more applicable to the economy in general as opposed to just startups.
Open Snow pulls most of their SWE data from SNOTEL sites and NRCS reports.
Then there can be only one. Either by the destruction of all competitors, or the amalgamation of the few remaining such that they behave as one (telecoms aren't that far off here). Then the market isn't free, it's just lords and their serfs.
Virtual currencies are commodities, U.S. judge rules
> Articles like this tell me that deep learning researchers have basically given up on understanding how their own stuff works in the course of their careers and simply accept that their success must come from beating benchmarks and producing pretty graphs. ...a pity

This is an overgeneralization, and not a fair one, in my view.

The real issue you're bringing up, as I see it, is that we have yet to come up with a set of mental tools necessary for reasoning about deep learning in a rigorous way. In other words, I believe our position is analogous to that of, say, educated people in the early 17th century who could not reason rigorously about Zeno's "paradoxes of motion" because the ideas of calculus had not yet been proposed by Newton and Leibniz.

A considerable amount of human intelligence and ingenuity goes into the design and development of novel deep learning systems. I speak from experience. Every tweak and design decision in every model has a reason for being. These deep learning models are not good at what they do by accident!
Even so, simply going to court on something like this could have staggering consequences.
> just a marketing document for YC

That's true, I just disagree with how you framed it. Some people may genuinely be inspired by it, and some good can genuinely come out of it, even if it "costs zero"
I once wanted to make a custom PCB for my mechanical keyboard layout. I was so frustrated and disheartened by how difficult it was and all the pitfalls that could occur I decided to just stick to hand wiring.

I’d love to be able to just hire someone to make me a custom PCB the way someone would hire a developer to write an app, but unfortunately it seems there is no market for this.
I had the same problems with re-balancing my own portfolio and ended up creating a trading bot that automatically diversifies my investment portfolio across the top 20 coins by market cap (10% capped). It is heavily inspired by the crypto20 whitepaper.

For anyone that is interested, you can find the project here: www.hodlbot.io

I'm about 1-2 weeks from the MVP launch. Only the top 20 coins by market cap fund will be available at the start. In the future users will be able to create their own custom weightings.

The bot requires users to have a Binance account and uses their API key (trade only, no withdrawal access), to execute monthly rebalances. Users will always own their own coins.

At this point, I haven't run into any huge issues with min trading amounts given a reasonable initial investment amount (~0.5 ETH). For example, the NEO example you mentioned.... the min trading amount on Binnace is actually 0.01 NEO (~$1.1 USD).

I'll be making the project open source in the future and sharing with you all!
Far northern permafrost may unleash carbon within decades
It's possible to participate in injustice in a multiplicity of implicit, difficult-to-see ways and yet still object to participating in explicit, obvious injustices. Doing so is still far preferable to not objecting to obvious injustices, regardless of what you're up to in your spare time.
I've been writing code for long time. No tool or methodology has helped me to become more focused, organized, productive and predictable as Org-mode. I do not start a task without clocking in or starting new org-pomodoro cycle. I take notes whenever I encounter a problem, get an idea or discover something new. Every morning I read my notes from the previous day, check how I spent my time. I'm not the smartest developer in my team nor the most productive. However, without Emacs and org-mode I don't think I would be even working in the same team.