skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average music consumption case looks a lot different than 15 CDs per year. I've listened to hundreds of different artists this week and I consider myself a pretty light music consumer.
Not to mention the ridiculous percentage of packet loss.
Very movie-esque.
>Ha. You'll get a proprietary black box that steals all of your data, eats all of your bandwidth, offers no public API and stores everything in the cloud, and you'll like it.
> There was a guy a while ago who bought a hardware wallet on ebay and lost all his coins.

Was this because he sent his coins to a paper wallet that the seller generated for him? I would be impressed if someone had actually managed to produce a fake trezor, but even then, it's pretty straightforward not to buy them on ebay.
Facebook Protect VPN: Researcher Finds Privacy Service Collecting User Data
Cryptocurrency index funds make no sense in general - the correlation between coins is too negative for holding a basket of them to make sense. You want to diversify over uncorrelated assets. Holding offsetting long and short positions makes zero sense, and due how most alt-coins are priced by their ALT/BTC pair, holding most altcoins essentially means shorting everything other than Bitcoin and maybe Ethereum.

If you want crypto exposure, just buy BTC and Eth. Due to their volatility, you'll want to have a healthy cash balance and target a constant fraction of that in exposure - essentially, selling half your coins if the price doubles and buying back double when the price halves. Read up on the Kelly Criterion for the full explanation as to why.
BFG is a lifesaver. If only I could convince my employer to donate! (Yes I already donated privately).
You can provide both.

By way of analogy: a journey is in part about arriving at the (or a) destination, but it's also about the journey itself.

Revealing the destination at the beginning, if it is in fact known, does not of necessity detract from the journey. And if an article is in fact about arriving at some conclusion, then, as a courtesy to the reader who is trying to determine how to allocate their own limited attention, providing some indication of where this particular journey ends may prove worthwhile.

On the basis of the discussion here and criticisms of this particular article voiced, I'm about to close this particular HN tab and move on to others that may be vaguely more interesting and/or considerate of my attention.
Active chairs imitate that kind of activity when seating.

After some years using Aeron and Embody, I switched to an active chair and never looked back.

Some active chairs are listed in this old review: http://www.nerdgranny.com/review-ergonomic-chairs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Opsvik needs to be better known outside Scandinavia.
My theory is that the only reason the SEC hasn't classified all cryptocurrencies as securities is that doing so would be too unpopular politically. Anything that fails to get wide backing before the regulators hear about it, will get cracked down on.
You don't even need a good idea! You can just find a bunch of people trying to get rich quickly and sell them a bunch of tokens that will end up worthless!!
In this case, I was trying to use `document.open()` to replace the document with some text for debugging, and I noticed some strange side effects. :) The starting point was here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39233344/does-javascript...
In Tucson AZ it was a constant problem that freight trains would either blow through town at full speed or crawl through level crossings blocking traffic rather than obeying speed laws. It was always cheaper for them to pay the fines than to comply.
> I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.

States have contracted out to private individuals and firms for the development of tools for that purpose (and the actual killing) for as long as states as distinct from private individuals exercising power have existed.
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Similar to the approach for Pinterest visual search, but compares the feature outputs of a CNN directly without creating a 'visual vocabulary'. The search strategy is k approximate nearest neighbors, with k as a search parameter, allowing for a speed/accuracy tradeoff. Currently, I'm exploring offering this as a service, and am working on customer/product development and open to any and all input and suggestions.
> housing and pensions are obligate sinks of wealth.

Everyone needs some housing and some provision for old age.

That doesn't mean that all of a person's housing and pension ownership should be ignored when figuring out how well off they are.

Ruccio's methodology would treat someone who's completely broke, living from paycheck to paycheck, barely covering their food and rent, as being in the exact same situation as someone who has a $1M house and a $1M pension fund, and has chosen to sink all their wealth into those things.

That certainly makes it easier to tell a story of how the super-duper-rich have all the wealth, since it reckons our hypothetical only-kinda-rich person as penniless. But it doesn't seem to me like it gives an accurate account of things.

For the avoidance of doubt, I completely agree that there's a hell of a lot of inequality, that there are super-rich people with vast amounts and many millions struggling to meet their basic needs. Nothing about that depends on whether or not you adopt Ruccio's way of calculating wealth distribution statistics.

What Ruccio's trying to do, though, is to do the calculations in a way that collapses all distinctions between the poor, the middle classes, and (some of) the kinda-sorta-rich. And, surprise!, when you do that it turns out that the really-rich have all the money.

But I think that actually weakens the case for outrage about the divide between the super-rich and the not-rich. Because if you frame things Ruccio's way, it gets harder to sustain that outrage once you realise that the poor immiserated people Ruccio's comparing with the super-rich include people who own fancy houses and have comfortable retirement funds.

Might as well make a new graph showing that 99% (or whatever the figure actually is) of the world's yacht wealth is in the hands of the super-rich.
The entire point of cryptocurrency is to control it yourself, by owning the private keys. Instead of investing in ethereum with coinbase, why not invest in a centralized smart contract platform (much easier and even safer as long as you trust the person who runs it)?
IBM was put to work manufacturing rifles during World War II. That's not a product I would have expected from IBM. https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1940.html
Alexis Ohanian’s VC Firm Invests in Decentralized Crypto Trading Platform
What tennis and philanthropy have in common – Bill Gates
If you try and change law in the United States, any group of 41 senators can stop you, and so could half of the House of Representatives. If you try and replace the members of the House of Representatives, the state governments have already stopped you by gerrymandering the seats. If you try and replace the Senators, you have to wait up to six years and deal with literally everything else that can happen within that timespan.

Let's say you manage to make your way through all of that. Or at least you get close enough that you can actually pass legislation. But you can't get the legislation all the way through without making some small compromises, at which point your elected officials are going to be branded as "neoliberal sellouts" and primaried by extremists. Then you have to start all over again.

That's something that you can try and do. That's also something that literally everyone else tries and does all the time, and at least half of those everyone else are working directly against you.

Or you could solve the problem through some other mechanism. That seems hard, but solving the problem through American politics is really hard, probably harder in a lot of cases. What happened first: did political activists literally lobby local governments to drop taxicab medallions, or did startups circumvent that problem by introducing ridesharing?
universally acknowledged that the Tet Offensive was militarily a disaster

Does it really make sense to try to distinguish military success from the political consequences? The notion that those things are gainfully distinguishable seems horribly flawed and can be found at the root of our foreign policy and military blunders.

It's sort of like talking about how technology A is better than technology B without giving any consideration to market viability, path dependency, etc. Someone who appreciates and emphasizes the latter will almost always see greater success than someone who focuses on the "best" technology. What's worse is when someone bitterly complains about how their startup failed even though they had the better technology. Not only did they fail in the market, but they don't even understand why they failed, which is that realistically there's no objective "better" technology independent from market dynamics. Likewise, there can exist no objective military "success" if the political consequences result in the campaign ultimately crumbling.

Another way to put it is that given the American strategic posture, the only to have seen success in the Tet Offensive would have been to have been more prepared and taken many fewer casualties such that the public would have never wavered in its support. That may seem an unfair benchmark, but war isn't fair. If you're going to win a war, you have to understand how wars are won. You not only go to war with the army you have instead of the army you wish you had, you go to war with the public support you have, not the public support you wish you had. If the public is fickle, you better make sure you account for that. Otherwise you'll fail.
FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew
It's common for brokerages to have exchanges for both their own index funds and the assets those funds track.
It took me far too long to work out that "fog" is a "cloud" that's right next to you, and hence "fog computing" is a local cloud. Haha. Of course, that made "mist", a thin fog (?) make sense too.
This is a very interesting case, thanks.

Not sure why a crafts store must provide contraception (I read a few times to make sure I got it right), and IMO they are just grasping at legal straws to fight off a ridiculous suit.

But, like you say, it's the people who run these corporations. Were I the judge, I'd be looking into the articles of incorporation which, I'm sure, say nothing about religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age
Yes, what happened was the seller went through the initial setup process for the wallet and put a nice-looking laminated card in the box with the recovery key. The buyer didn't realize there was something unusual about this, and didn't re-generate the keys before using the wallet.

My point is, many investors are worried that they'll make a mistake, lose all their money, and then people will just shrug and call them stupid when their story hits HN the following day. With this Coinbase fund, there is no such risk.
Browsed the repo a bit. From where do you get your surface-level forecast data?
> After three months passed, the families returned to our lab so we could again measure the infants’ attention to our storybook characters.

The researchers are rash to think that an effect observed after three months have passed will still be observable after five years or twenty. The psychological literature is full of examples of interventions that raise intelligence in the short term and have no long-term effect [1]. To date, I'm not aware of any childhood intervention (aside from adequate nutrition) that has an appreciable effect on adult intelligence.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284123208_The_envir...
I certainly agree that 300$ USD should be completely reasonable for something that lasts half a decade, I'm just not sure how to get from here to there realistically (well in the 5-10 year short term).
It's not the companies, it's their owners. The simple test is, if the company management changes to someone of a different faith, will they praise the same religious belief? The answer is clearly no, as no one in their right mind puts religion in the articles of incorporation, probably not even in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.
Rhode Island bill would charge $20 fee to unblock Internet porn
Scaling Engineering and Product Teams
I should have another go at contributing to the documentation in my copious spare time. The lead dev seems like a really nice, enthusiastic guy.
If you follow media criticism much, that's pretty much precisely (one of) the argument(s) being put against Twitter (and Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, and other forums) here and now.

Tim Wu, danah boyd, Clay Shirky, Robert McChesney, Jonathan Albright, Tristan Harris, and others are among those critics. Several have direct experience with TwitFaceGoogTube et al.
So basically this is like the movie "The Terminator" except a human operator has to hit "yes" on an "are you sure" dialog. Let's hope that google has better confirmation dialogs than the Hawaii emergency alert system has.
People can bring a class action suit against a private company, but the government is much harder and often impossible to deal with in court. The Department of Interior proved that fairly well with their continued incompetence even in the face of a court system.

> Everyone gets a vote.

Yes, but its a majority game. Heck, look at all the diversity news on HN or the diversity reports by tech giants. See any mention of enrolled members of Native American tribes? See any VC funding to solve the smaller problem (might have been a nice place to test all that basic income stuff)? Heck, Google can block one of the tribal community colleges in Google Voice and no one gives a solitary damn.

No, government is less accountable than any private group. After all, they can get away with doing things like this when questioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcgGoAcDXvQ&feature=youtu.be
Using Node JavaScript to Create Electronic Dance Music
"I.e., those other things you listed exist “within” the US financial system. Cryptocurrencies exist outside of it"

No, they don't. They're no more "outside it" than gold or silver are.
Looks like my data was flawed: Looking at the source[1], it's 3.6% (not 8%) in 2011 and it's a percentage of what's recycled.

So, I don't know if we recycle more or less today than in 1960.

[1]: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/P100GMT6.txt?ZyActionD=Z... (page 76)
The archives of the Spanish Archive of the Indies are a century older than that, and if the Portuguese Casa da Índia hadn't been destroyed in the great 1755 earthquake we'd have sailing records from the dawn of the Age of Discoveries. The records and maps were national secrets, and for good reason.

You do wonder if the NSA will declassify its records 100 years from now.
The Making of Nefertiti 1kb
Brilliant. Much safer solution than handing over keys etc.
Here's my modest proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world. Don't use Twitter.
> 130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found.

... And the NAND flash has long since drained it's charge.
Fraudsters Jailed for £37m Copycat Website Scam
I think there's an interesting distinction to be made between wealth that naturally produces more wealth (like owning a successful business, or a share of it) and wealth that doesn't (like owning a fancy house).

And (something something Piketty r>g something) there is something to be said for measuring how "productive" wealth is distributed, as distinct from things like gold and housing and bank accounts.

But:

That isn't what Ruccio is proposing, nor is yours or anything like it the reason he gives.

My pension funds are approximately 100% equities. They will, if the businesses they're invested in do well, grow. They provide me, in principle, with a tiny amount of power over those businesses (though I'm not sure I have any way to exercise it). But Ruccio wants those excluded from my net wealth when calculating his statistics.

The money in my bank account is (as far as I'm concerned) just cash. I suppose my bank gets to use (most of) it for productive investments, but it makes no surplus for me. But Ruccio wants that included in my net wealth when calculating his statistics.
This made me look at multiplicative order again and I finally found [1] what I could not find at the time, someone explicitly stating that this is a hard problem. Now it seems so obvious that I should have looked at what cryptography has to say about it that I can not imagine why I did not. Anyway, case finally closed, I got my peace of mind now.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/837489/algorithms-f...
Feel free to answer any of the following! Thanks!

- Any interest in funding commercial permaculture setups?

- Any interest in small-scale mushroom farmers?

- Any interest in aquaculture/closed-loop systems that focuses on reducing, reusing, and recycling nutrients and other resources (carbon obvious included)?

- Interest in non-profits that reclaim abandoned warehouses in urban areas, rehab and function as sustainable greenhouses and employ the "non-employable"?

- What is the position on marijuana and cannabis cultivation?
+ if the focus is on epigentics?
+ if the focus is on DNA fingerprinting / identification?
+ non-sales, research only, mapping the genetics to cannabinoid expressions?
+ if 100% of profits (minus investor cuts) are funneled back into YC projects?

- I've already submitted my application but my answers weren't catered to the RFS. Should I bother editing it to draw focus on the fact that my company addresses the RFS or should I leave the answers a bit more generic? e.g. "How far along are you?" yielded a response focused on business operations, not the technology and its associated R&D which relates to the RFS
This is cool. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hella
Yeah, there's no way that what they're doing is worth 2% here.
>>For example, stock market index fund makes sense because stocks are built on top of capitalism, which has proven to work for a long time. Nobody would buy a index fund from a communist country, because time has proven communism is not profitable.

That is not what index funds are for, or aren't for, at all.

Parts of bond index funds I own are invested in "communist" countries and I'm glad to have the diversification.
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Although "cheap energy" eventually gets around that. If you had extremely cheap energy, e.g. fusion, you could literally turn atmospheric CO2 and water back into hydrocarbons, and once you've reduced atmospheric CO2 enough, you could run a closed-loop process where you recycle enough hydrocarbons out of the air and water to balance out what's burned for fuel.

It makes sense to do this if hydrocarbons are still more energy-dense than batteries, for instance. If we end up inventing fusion power before we invent an electric jet airliner, for instance.
That seems unlikely given GDAX has publicly released it's criteria for listing new assets.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
How about a culture?
Depends on what employee you got an appointment with. Try the next bank if the first one was an asshole.

You have more than enough documentation.
Dang, I was looking everywhere for something like this just a couple months ago! I ended up digging through the GDAX API docs, writing a node script, and scheduling it [0], but I'd rather not be in the business of script maintenance.

The fees and accredited investor requirement will keep me with what I've got, though :/

[0]:https://www.chrisjeakle.com/projects/#gdax-automation
I think "buying local" went out the window with "manufacture local" and "produce local."
The current model captures data from three separate inputs:
The NAM weather forecast model--primarily wind, air temperature and precipitation values
SNOTEL data--on the ground snow values include snowpack depth and SWE

SNODAS-which has things like snowpack temperature and sublimation rates

The input combines these and has a lookback of ~21 days to allow for things like buried hoar frost. I do think there is work to be done to validate that buried weak layers are well represented in the model but currently the model is a pretty good representation of the human forecasts which do account for those.

I do agree that regional variation is a factor. One example is that I feature engineered a Long Term Cold feature which we know is a primary cause of snowpack faceting leading to buried deep layers. This is more of a continental feature of avalanches as opposed to a coastal. My model doesn't consider this feature important. I currently attribute this to being only trained on costal forecasts. I have reached out to both to the Colorado Avalanche and Utah avalanche centers to work on how to best incorporate their historical forecast data in to the modeling to assess this further.
Oh yeah, for sure, I know there are many purists who want the legit original hardware. Just that many hobbyists who just want to run their favorite old computer(s) opt for the adapter as it's a lot easier to buy a bunch of SD cards, even if the adapters can be a bit pricy.
It has a suitable license (MIT), is rather complete, and has semantics that will not surprise jq users.
Zero. I think you can do a lot with just choosing a good open source font and using a text-only logo. Previously, I spent $5,000+ on a logo/branding design for a project that ended up not going anywhere, so that is not something I would recommend.
For the lazy, here's the magic:

<script>
document.currentScript.remove();
setTimeout(function() {
// no rights reserved (BSD0) by Jeremy Banks <_@jeremy.ca>

const html = document.documentElement.outerHTML;

document.open('text/plain');
document.write('view source disabled');
document.close();

document.documentElement.innerHTML = html;
});
</script>
The most FAQ / most filed issue for jq may well be that IEEE754 sucks. Users are frequently surprised by IEEE754 issues.
The surface-level forecast data is the NAM model which I pull from NOAA. Eventually I want to try the GFS (with a resolution tradeoff) or the EU models (with a cost tradeoff).
Trucking is absolutely skilled work. It's crazy that people think it isn't.
But if they sold in larger volumes would the price go down with economies of scale? Maybe not as far as the cheapest stuff on the market but it could become attainable. or maybe parts of their approach could be used to build a cheaper line of clothing that is still environmentally responsible.
Regarding #4, you may still have a capital gains event[1] on rebalance depending how this is structured. A good analogy is the tax treatment of mutual funds vs ETFs.

[1]: Or more likely loss.
Opioids are no better than Tylenol for treating some chronic pain
How spacex brings starlink broadband satellite internet to low earth orbit
I'd be curious to know if freight travels shorter distances on average in Europe though.
>> The reality is that these early “techno-utopians” were keenly aware of these risks. They founded organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation, not because they were convinced that everything was going to be great – but because they were worried that everything could be terrible, and also because they saw the potential for things to be better.

Yeah, but then Google, Facebook et al started throwing six-figure salaries to CS graduates to steal your data and, well, that's what happened to hackers' ethics and technology morality.
The U.S.-China Rivalry Is, More Than Ever, a Fight Over Tech
I can't possibly understand how there isn't a breach of fiduciary duty.