skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also WikiTribune [1] for more long-form reporting. I donate so people can get informed, reasoned journalism that's not PR hit/puff pieces or distracting bullshit.

Plus they solicit ideas from readers in addition to content from journalists.

[1] https://www.wikitribune.com
The BBC kind of does that commitment, doesn't it? As do many other public service channels, like NPR. See also http://ethics.npr.org/

Of course it can be discussed what the political leanings of the outcomes actually are.
I think I showed why his justification is wrong.

But if I wanted to explain why treating house money differently from your own money was wrong I'd use the example of two people who entered the casino with different amounts of money but now have the same amount (somewhere in between where they each started). Then one is betting with house money and the other isn't. But I claim that it would be rational for them to behave the same way. This is because the consequences of having a certain amount of money will be the same for both of them, no matter where that money came from.
I find it amusing you downplay the importance (not that I disagree) of precision, and than advocate for measuring by weight for entirely different reasons. Precision is the typical argument people make for scales.
On the contrary, a ton of licensors have pulled out of Netflix. Its just that their content is good and at a large enough scale that it doesnt matter. Netflix was lucky to build its in-house production muscle before a lot of the licensors wised up and started building their own platforms.
Apple's New SwiftNIO Might Be a Hint of Bigger Cloud Ambitions to Come
Two counterpoints:

A) Lennon discovered and got very deep into LSD in 1966, mere months before Lucy in the Sky was written. He had a powerful ego death experience [1].

B) Admitting to the public that one of their hit songs was about a controversial drug was an obvious PR no-no.

I guess there's no way to know for certain either way, though.

[1]
"When McCartney and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche but found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, adapted from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Evans-Wentz, which was introduced to Leary by Aldous Huxley. Lennon bought the book, went home and followed the instructions exactly as stated in the book. It discussed an “ego death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, supposedly essentially similar to the dying process, and requiring similar guidance."

https://books.google.com/books?id=FQSLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240
It's unlikely to be a total scam like Theranos, given that third parties have tried it and didn't go "omg this is shit". But it definitely seems to be a Faraday Future level of over-promising, growing way to fast and burning through all your money with nothing to show.
In telecom, Iridium spent close to a billion dollars but did actually succeed in building a truly worldwide (pole to pole) handheld satellite phone network which also supported SMS and low-data-rate M2M.

Then went bankrupt and was acquired. The tech was revolutionary at the time, 18 years ago (handheld phone size vs. 10 kilogram fat briefcase sized inmarsat terminal that didn't work above 60 degrees latitude), the revenue just wasn't there.
If they want cover in the event of an accident they do.
Thanks, will give it a try.
You also pay self employment taxes. W2 and 1099 income aren't directly comparable. Oh, and health insurance as a contractor is WAY higher than as an employee. That has to eat into their wages a lot.
Hopefully, they do. It's pretty weird how they themselves advice not to share the booking reference with other people and are leaking the same to the third-parties.
I think I've read it's for bipolar:10% if only father, 50% if both parents.
Timeline here:

* http://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2018-6789.txt

The interesting entries:

> * 2018-02-09 One distro breaks the embargo

> * 2018-02-10 18:00 Grant public access to the our official git repo.

Since the report came in on the 5th there wasn't really a lot of time before the "distro" released it.
The articles all state it was a separate letter he signed. I'm having a hard time finding it, personally, and it seems Ron didn't feel like he needed to include it here: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/library as I looked a year back from the date of these articles for a letter to the EU. (Credit where credit's due, this is a treasure trove of information.)

EDIT: I've sent a note to Wyden's office asking them to either post it or send me a copy.
Yes but there are many many markets out there which don't have any sort of regulation. The SEC's main quarrel right now appears to be that they believe investors might come to an exchange and invest believing they are as safe.
You can download your raw data and then look at the SNP rs numbers on:

* https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/BRCA1

* https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/BRCA2

Example command to search for a snp: grep rs28897696 genome_your_raw_data.txt
We are 10 developers just using vanilla Javascript here. No mess, and a joy to work with. We use good old design patterns like observer, proxy, composite and so on. We also use inheritance and template literals a lot.

The key is good documentation, having an onboard plan for new developers, keeping things stupid simple and stop being bleeding edge. We want our code base to just work, so we can focus more on new features and less on maintenance.

I'm planning on writing a deeper blog post this year about why and how we feel is a good structured simple way to do frontend development. I believe there are several frustrated frontend developers out there that just want to make their life easier but currently all the arguments they find just favor 'React'....

Our whole Javascript codebase is 50k + lines. But the clients only fetch what is needed.
I have no idea but I'm already short.
They explicitly note that the law requires anything that is an exchange for trading things that meet the legal definition of a security must either (1) meet the requirements for and register as a national securities exchange or, (2) qualify for and secure an exemption under one of the existing legal exemptions from the registration requirement.

They note that they are particularly concerned about customers mistaking something for having the features of a regulated exchange when it does not, but the legal risk and basis for enforcement is not limited to that kind of confusion. So, no, simply announcing that you are an exchange which doesn't comply with the registration requirements won't help, and might hurt.
Yeah, lets inform the imprisoned madmen and perverts that there is hope yet.

Is there a way you can get a refund, if the package you sell us turns out to be just brain- and proofless optimism of the american kind - rewrapped for the ten-thousands time- good as new. And if people cant change - its not biologoy, its not society, its a personal flaw- they deserve to suffer for that- or at least be looke down upon, or they should self-deprecate with drugs, for beeing failures.

Wish there was a similar outrage to this optextremism, against scientific reality and its horrors as it is against more obvious morbid ideologys.
This is hilarious! But very practical. Buttons are a simple user interface to say one thing. And the phone call on the other side of the system is great.
Google's Paper Signals project allow for a more complex input: voice commands. https://papersignals.withgoogle.com/
I can see demand for tons of customized versions of both of these projects. The business model is broken though. Customized hardware or software is expensive. If you could build a cookie-cutter style app creator using emoji-style software blocks (for those with zero programming ability) and stick with off-the-shelf hardware from other creators (Amazon) or even Arduino kits, you could build a business model to support semi-custom products with a mix of hardware and software for many many uses.
Windows 10’s next major update will include a new AI platform
A lot of people like gated communities. Not saying this is a good trend but there definitely is demand.
">A brain “stores” memories like files on a hard drive

Nobody thinks this"

If you ask them directly and they bring it up to conscious recognition, no, approx. nobody thinks this.

However, if you witness people's actions when they set out with the deliberate goal of learning something, they clearly act as if they believe they can write something "once" to the "brain's hard drive" and retain it indefinitely by sheer force of will, and that failure to do so is a moral or character failing. Articles like this are important to correct people's implicit, unexamined beliefs.

Of course if you've been on HN for a while, you've had spaced repetition of the importance of spaced repetition (albeit perhaps not on the optimal schedule), so you may feel it's very common knowledge. It isn't. Only a few subcultures have heard of it; the broader culture is ignorant of these ideas.
An old joke says that the power plant starts rotating around the generator.
Disdain for LTCM isn't exactly an iconoclastic, or even interesting, position to take. They're among the worst trading catastrophes in history.

A good book has been written about LTCM, but it's not Taleb's; it's Lowenstein's _When Genius Failed_.
Lansweeper (https://www.lansweeper.com/)
Canadian Doctors Protest Salary Increase, Say They Are Being Paid Too Much
World's largest study on subscription churn (3.6k companies)
I don't see this working for Uber/Lyft drivers. For "gigs" like tutoring, it's easy to get a student or parent to split the referral service's fee, because they do more or less nothing after the first session, and a personal relationship is valuable. For car services, you just want to get from A to B at some random time, and Joe Driver may not be near A at that time.
My CU still uses Windows XP on the desktop.
"My computer doesn't have anything illegal on it"

Don't worry comrade, if you step out of line politically or do anything we otherwise disagree with, your computer WILL have something illegal added to it, it's not a problem at all, especially if it leaves your control for a day or three.
The NYT has a newspaper option:

https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper

Not perfect, but it can definitely help eliminate some of the noise.
Perhaps a better way of looking at it is this. Basically, a sound triggers hair cells in the ear. A single harmonic tone triggers a single group of hair cells. Through modeling, you can compute which hair cells are triggered at what moment for a given signal. Your task is then to compute a new signal for which the same haircells are triggered but faster.
Didn't know about Papersignals. Looks awesome (also, for kids). Have you built anything with it yet? What's the developer experience like?
Too many cooks spoil the broth. Effective teamwork does not mean we all need to work on the exact same thing at the same time. The best teams I've been on have people who are "t shaped" and have the autonomy to self organize. It's ok to collaborate but it's usually best to communicate what needs to be done, split up the responsibilities, and then complete the work independently. In my experience smaller teams output higher quality work at a faster rate. Bigger teams have less accountability and are prone to wasting time bike shedding.

All of the problems the author states are symptoms of other issues in the organization which will not be solved by this particular style of group work. Incomprehensible code is still incomprehensible regardless of whether it was written by 1 or 10 people. Everyone is bad at this to begin with, how can you expect to get better if you have someone else solve all of your problems? Going through a bit of a struggle is a good thing, as it gives you confidence that you can solve new problems as they arise.
That was indeed quite ironic. I bet the PR person did not read their own privacy policy before pointing you towards it. Pretty sure they weren't expecting you to read volumes of vague jargon and pick their follies. Well done.
That's not how any of this works.

What you're looking at is not a press release, it is what's called "administrative guidance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_guidance) -- a regulatory agency laying out its interpretation of how existing laws and regulations apply to a given situation. Regulators do this to remove ambiguity, so regulated parties know what the agency expects them to do in order to stay on the right side of the law.

In this specific case, the SEC is advising crypto-based operations calling themselves "exchanges" that this is a word that has a special legal meaning, and that therefore if they want to continue calling themselves "exchanges" they either need to comply with the same licensing requirements that apply to other "national securities exchanges," or demonstrate a good reason why those requirements don't apply to them. (And not just to crypto in general, to their specific operation in particular.)

The reason this matters is because, now that the SEC has officially gone on the record with this statement, crypto exchanges can't say they weren't warned if they continue using the term and the SEC comes after them later. This statement is their warning that they need to either get licensed or stop calling themselves exchanges. If they choose to do nothing and just keep on calling themselves exchanges, and the SEC takes them to court over it, they won't be able to argue that they didn't know what they were required to do to use that term. The SEC has just told them what they need to do. The ambiguity has been removed.
Why did Dropbox drop Amazon's Cloud to build its own infrastructure?
I fail to see how crypto-speculators making large sums of USD has anything to do with oppressive regimes.
"A good idea too early" makes it sound like they were ahead-of-their-time geniuses. Reality is that everyone had that idea and knew the technology wasn't ready.

Ideas are the easy part.
I doubt anyone can taste the difference in a tortilla. You probably can in French fries, but that’s hardly a common practice outside of McD. Umami definitely wins approval, but I doubt meat would provide umami in so many foods without the subsidies in place.
I share your concern. Even if one isn't (knowingly) dealing with older C++ code, all of the language rules apply to every line of C++ being compiled.

Just one typo, or misguided use of syntax, and a person might be using some "older" revision of the language without knowing it. And I'm not aware of any tool that will warn the programmer that he/she has done that.

So I'm concerned that programmers schooled only in "modern" C++ will fail to understand that this has occurred, and will either (a) get error messages that don't understand, or (b) get program behavior that they don't anticipate.

I'm curious if people have found this to be a problem in practice.
And I am guessing that's not a case where they have identified specific genes. Please correct me if I am wrong. But I am not aware of bipolar genes being a thing.

There is a difference between hand wavy "runs in the family, but we don't really know how it works" and a bona fide genetic disorder whose alleles have been mapped to some degree or another.

Edit: To be perfectly clear, if it is not genetic and merely tends to run in families, it may be due to a variety of nongenetic factors, such as diet and lifestyle. Smoking also tends to run in families. Smoking is not a genetic disorder, though it significantly impacts health.

If it is not genetic, it's heritability is not going to show up on your 23 and me profile. Fretting that it will basically means you don't know what you are talking about.
Yep, completely true. And if memory serves me right, I read in the newspapers that he had a history of mental issues. Not entirely sure about it though. What I do know for sure was that it turned into a MAJOR thing in media in Sweden. The show was called "bullying tv", and the producers instantly declared they would re-cut all the episodes before showing them. They did, people hated it for the first few episodes, but by the end of season one pretty much everybody was hooked. The success was a fact.
Hmm. How long before health insurers use this to, uh, "personalize" rates? Note that many have wellness programs that incent employees to present blood samples.
State Farm had a warning in their recent mailer for policy renewals that you are not covered under your auto policy for any ridesharing activities, although you could purchase a rider to insure you at additional cost.
Possibly like pretty much everything else: by writing or clarifying regulations that make such things a violation and then painstakingly going after the most extreme violators and punishing them severely enough that it changes the risk calculation for everyone. Very few things (I can't think of an example) are regulated to the point of impossibility, they are just regulated to the point of implausibility.
> if they actually did it every day then it wouldn't be a statistical outlier :P

True, haha!
I didn't follow Iridium closely but as far as I know it didn't have this secrecy around them. The tech was well understood. Unlike Magic Leap where there are still rumors about what they are actually doing.
But this is an excellent example of a case where forcing minimum wage equivalent on ride sharing would result in a net loss of jobs, is it not? Where is the money going to come from? I use ride sharing because it is cheap and convenient, but it is something I can gladly go back to living without.

Meanwhile, on the "market" supply side, you have individual people rationally choosing to drive, and you are advocating to essentially take that agency away from them, by artificially setting a price floor.
I ended up meeting in the middle. I have a Sunday-only subscription with the New York Times. I get a physical paper on Sunday and the rest of the week I have access to the replica edition included (which is the print edition, just available through the PressReader app) - I have a 12.9" iPad Pro I read said replica edition on which gets me as close to the experience of reading a broadsheet as possible considering I'm still reading on a screen.

Yeah, my promo discount just ended so instead of ~$20/mo it's costing me $40/mo - but I value having a condensed, well curated collection of relevant news articles so the cost is easily justified for me.
”Can't reach Oculus Runtime Service”
I wanted to add to this because I feel that I'm a beginner at being a stoic and putting value on being alone:

- I make choices and I learn from mistakes. I'm trying to be better about not having regrets as in repeatedly reflecting emotionally to mistakes and misfortune in my past.

- I try to do things that are important to me when I have the time for them. I'm choosier with what movies I watch, games I play, and the things I do. This beats going to parties sometimes.

- I'm honest about why I can't go to a party. I take my feelings out of it - if I am genuinely tired and need rest, then I say that. If I'm sick or have a headache, then that's what I say. If on the other hand I have nothing better to do, and I'm being lazy - I go to the damn party. 9 times out of 10 I end up having more fun than had I not gone.
Both my wife and my family have these instances regarding Betty Crocker recipes / Southern Living cookbook recipes. Although, I will say, our attempts at following the recipes are still not the same as our grandmother's. What I've noticed is our grandmothers are just better cooks; allowing them to eyeball measure, adjust temps to conditions, time things out better, and generally solve problems as they arise.

In a sense the recipe is just an idea, the cook still needs good execution.
Regardless, the null position which assumes the least is not "crypto currencies run by folks seeking to exit into USD provide real value" but rather "do not provide value".

The claim that someone would prove, of course, would be that they provide value.

So that shouldn't offend you that the null position (and the position which satisfies occams razor) is the default stated position.

Instead of criticizing it, you could actually do the work of proving your claim that crypto has real measurable value to a society. Until that's proven, though...
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As well, the fact that starch and sugar are essentially identical metabolically is a key point that people don't believe, mostly because they don't want to at a deep emotional level. Replacing doughnuts and chips with bagels and pasta can make no difference, except other people's perception.
How many Iraqi civilians died from the USA led invasion?

What nation has the highest level of incarceration in the world?

In Saudi Arabia their regime is hereditary but in the USA we elect our leaders.

Who should we be angry at?
Cheap energy is critical to massive carbon removal. I think solar might also be the answer
Right? That's my takeaway as well. I think people mostly paint others with their own preconceived notions about the world.

They might be accurate in judging how someone will react in a given situation, but my coworkers truly don't know more than the tip of the iceberg.
Pharma's “Freshness Index”: revenue from old vs. new products
Binance wasn't hacked. A bunch of idiots gave their API keys to third party bots. The owner of the bots then hijacked their accounts for profit
Warning: Hackers can use Cortana to access a locked Window 10 PC
What's your stance on forex markets then?
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as a person who has spent a fair amount of time researching the current state of the art for battery technology, both in watt-hours per kilogram and watt-hours per cubic cm: I have to agree with you. Anything with sufficient processing power to drive a high resolution, 60 fps AR display is going to need a good amount of battery. And that amount of battery is not going to fit into a google glass or hololens sized thing without needing to be recharged every half hour of usage.
The interesting thing I got out of this analysis is that, if you have a slight edge of 1%, having the constant percentage betting strategy is much better, if you have a large (100,000) number of bets. Having a log scale would be nice to see approximately where the two strategies returns diverge.

This got me thinking. One thing that is not discussed is that in real life trading one does not know what percentage advantage one has. Many successful traders rely on subconscious processes for part of their trading strategy that they have no way of examining, but seems to work(sometimes). If the only way to find out what your expected return is(your edge), is to bet and see what happens (maybe this is really the reason one needs "skin in the game") then ramping up your betting when you are winning is a really good idea. When you are losing money it is likely your expected return is negative and you should start scaling back your bets until you find an edge again.

It would be interesting to run this code with variable rates of return over time, including negative ones, where one scales the bet size not on your net capital but on (the percentage win on the last n bets)*(capital).

I'm sure this is all in some book written in the 18th century as people have been trading in markets for a long time.
There's no massaging. The potentially illegality of many cryptoasset platforms has always been clear to everyone who wasn't in denial. They're trying to race ahead of law enforcement. Kind-of like Uber, but the SEC is a lot harder to plow through than local traffic enforcement.

I, for one, welcome our PonziCoin-banning overlords.
We don't know Binance was hacked. Relatively few people use API keys to trade and every reported account had API keys on it. It's likely some malware that looks for API keys in config / python files laying around.