skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read the story of Etsy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/business/etsy-josh-silver...

> There is no objectively best profit maximizing strategy for a company to pursue.
There's always pressure to cut costs and cutting costs is always rough. CEO compensation is usually tied to share price. So they work to maximize the share price. I wish there were more companies with a "mission" beyond $$$ but it is hard to do. You have to stay private, I suppose.

Do you have any data at all to back your claims about how CEOs are chosen?
Thanks for filling me in!
Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
Oui :)
There are two parts of this— one is the exploitation of the weak by the powerful using technology as a tool, and the other is the technologists that are willing collaborators.

It’s been this way since before daVinci designed war machines for the prince.
When you lack requisite background, research doesn't help very much. It's like cramming for finals, when you've done no work during the semester.
This is a bit of goal post shifting. I am claiming we are getting better. Not that we have solved all problems.

None of those things are good. But you needn't dig hard to find our culture actively doing these things almost with glee not long ago. Our bar is rightfully higher than it was, and we have legitimate criticisms to overcome. But don't let that detract from the fact that the bar is higher.
a bitcoin private key is essentially a piece of gold bullionl Keep it locked up somewhere safe, and give the key to someone you trust.
Aw, damn. It's been before 2014 I last saw him in person, so I have no idea. It's a shame, because he is a great presenter with an infectious energy about him that I found really engaging.
Take this result with a grain of salt, most of these results are overhyped. For comparison, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect
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What is the problem with differentiating a quaternion? E.g. the time derivative of the quaternion w.r.t. a fixed angular velocity is given here: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/quaternion-differen... .

I've more often encountered the need to integrate a quaternion, e.g. from inertial measurements or a rigid body physics model, but this is also a textbook lookup away.
Escrow how?
Yikes, that management fee is terrible. Not for me, no siree. (Google how annual fees can drag a portfolio if you are unsure).
Music is fundamentally different the video. Video is typically consumed and monetized once. A piece of music is consumed over and over again by the same individual. From an artist perspective, they want their music to be widely distributed so that they can monetize as many times as possible, and they also want to drive consumers towards their other lines of business (live performance, merchandise).
I wonder how many would maintain their principles if they knew the consequences, not just for themselves, but for their family too. Not too many I think
Right, those things fall into the category of tools libs & frameworks. Like Carl Sagan says if you want to make an apple pie from scratch you have to first invent the universe. There's always going to be change and need to support backwards compatibility, so polyfills libraries & frameworks likely aren't going away anytime soon, even after web components are widely supported.
Maybe more misleading than dishonest, but seems questionable to me in addition to the x-axis being labeled and the y-axis not being labeled
I'm wrong, or else I misspoke. You can go from Ubuntu LTS to the following LTS, which gives you 2 years off from disruptive updates. Compared to the 6 month treadmill of non-LTS Ubuntu versions, this sounds great. But Debian has had an "every two years or so" schedule for their major updates, so it's really about the same as sticking with an Ubuntu LTS until the next one comes along.
> The implementation of drag-reducing flight modes of the space station resulted in saving about 1,000 kg of orbital-maintenance propellant per year.
I'm not sure "overspending" is at all the right term.

A rough back-of-envelope calculation on my own situation (which I guess isn't outrageously unrepresentative for the comfortable-but-not-1%) suggests that my family's Ruccio-wealth could have been 3-4x greater as a fraction of our nominal wealth, if we had made different but still reasonable choices about how nice a house to have and how much to sink into pension funds.

Our house is nice but by no means a mansion. Our retirement will be comfortable but by no means extravagant. I don't see any good reason to think we're overspending on either.

And I think a 3-4x difference in Ruccio-wealth is substantial; if repeated across the population of decently-off sub-1%ers, I think it would make a big dent in the difference between Ruccio's figures and everyone else's for what fraction of wealth is in the hands of the 1%.
The vast majority of people who live in Europe are not able to hold a conversation in English.

Your 51% counts any people who attended an English class in school. It's not a meaningful level of proficiency.
I have gotten all I can from support groups. I know tons of people online with similar issues and it's easily divided into two categories...those with disability/support/social systems...and those without. The former can quite often get by or even improve. The latter sink.

Sadly I am not fluent in anything. Like the rest of the skills it takes lots of time to become so and most places require degrees and certifications for any worthwhile jobs.
When I view source in Firefox I get the URL "view-source:wyciwyg://0/https://no-source.github.io/" which gives me the "view source disabled" message.

But if I then manually edit that in the location bar to "view-source:https://no-source.github.io/" I can view the source as expected.
That the most powerful have been the ones that are a combination of selfish, good at deception, and able to toe the line of morality has been the case at least since mammals evolved.
Hi again. Yes I am positive disability is over and done appeals and all. I have consulted lawyers all along the way and am well versed.
A few percentage points on the entire economy? Not good enough?
Sure, just sent you an email!
I don't know about intelligence, but the Perry Preschool Study comes to mind as an example of a controlled experiment that showed dramatic (in terms of practical, if not statistical, significance) outcomes that lasted for many decades. Also ones which matter more than intelligence, at the end of the day, such as income and jail time.

I'm not sure how much better than that you might expect to get, given the amount of effort and money involved in conducting this kind of study for even a small sample size.
The difference this is going to make is so meaningless that it doesn’t matter. Read to your kid. Or do something else like play LEGO’s with them, or let them play around on your iPad. Really it doesn’t matter. As long as you spend meaningful time with your kid, they’re going to be fine.

I think people worry too much about reading, honestly.

I’ve watched my toddler spend time taking his toys apart and put them together or play with the magnets on his toy trains, and I think time spent exploring the world is just as valuable. He likes to read, too, don’t get me wrong, but there’s more to education than books.
Your intuition is coming from seeing things as being in an equivalence-class on some axis of comparison—but you're looking at the wrong axis.

Gold and silver mined within the US exist within the US financial system, because it's US companies doing the mining, who sell the resulting commodities to other US companies, who then list them on US exchanges, etc. The US government can boss around all of these US companies—because it's the one giving them a right to exist. The US government can also, through this regulation of US companies, also enforce regulations on the activity of private citizens to some extent.

Gold and silver that never existed within the US at all, were never possessed by US corporations, and were otherwise never part of the US economy, are not regulated by US law.

Crucially, if an exchange of gold for silver occurs entirely outside of US jurisdiction—i.e. no interested parties in the transfer have anything to do with the US—then there is no US capital-gains event.

Consider, for example, if your great uncle is a UK citizen, while you are a US citizen. You are the recipient of his legal estate upon his death per his will. He exchanges silver for gold, and then immediately dies. Do you have to report the exchange to the IRS? Of course not. You didn't do it. You didn't even cause it. It just happened, somewhere outside the US, by non-US parties, and then eventually the money generated by this exchange made its way to you.

Now, consider another example: I buy BTC from a crypto exchange in Bermuda. This exchange is scared of the volatility of BTC, and so actually operates by holding ETH, and then using ETH to buy BTC the moment someone sends them e.g. USD. You send USD to the exchange, and receive BTC. Do you need to pay capital gains on the exchange of BTC (which you temporarily "owned", in the "what you'd get as a creditor if they went bankrupt that instant" sense) for ETH? Of course not, for the same reason as above. You never held any ETH, despite being temporarily owed ETH.

Now, let's say you go to an exchange and "buy in" to their trading system by buying some random crypto-token of theirs. You own this token. You then ask the system to allocate a portfolio of other things to you, temporarily, in exchange for loaning the system back this token. If those things do well, you get paid... in more of this token. The system might rebalance your virtual portfolio, but you never hold any of the portfolio assets.

You know what I'm describing?

Why, it's an investment savings account! The "random crypto-token" is "USD held in a TFSA."
Show me in the Drupal CMS how to debug a sites url, for a function body I believe to be in a stack trace of the urls processing.

I don't see IDEs as much help here because Drupal is so dynamic there's no easy way to jump through all the function/method calls that are useless calls to step through -- it's just easier to narrow down the debugging surface with well placed output messages.

Please someone point me at way to have the "setup" point me to the errors, and not me telling her debugger where I think the error is with a breakpoint...
Does it matter though? If someone's complaining about it on Memegen, it still means they're being paid to help Google profit. This may be Google's "IBM helping the Nazis target Jews" moment, the ethical engineer cannot work there.
The majority of the performance difference between strings concat and builder in your example is explained by memory allocation. Every loop of concat will result in a new allocation, while the builder - which uses []bytes internally - will only allocate when length equals capacity, and the newly allocated slice will be approx. twice the capacity of the old slice (see: https://golang.org/src/strings/builder.go?#L62).

Therefore, 500,000 rounds of concat is about 500,000 allocations, while 200,000,000 rounds of builder is ~ 27.5 allocations (=log2(200000000)).

I would suggest a different benchmark to approximate real world usage:

func BenchmarkConcatString(b *testing.B) {
for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
var str string
str += "x"
str += "y"
str += "z"
}
}

func BenchmarkConcatBuilder(b *testing.B) {
for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
var builder strings.Builder
builder.WriteString("x")
builder.WriteString("y")
builder.WriteString("z")
builder.String()
}
}

Which still shows a significant performance advantage for using builder (-40% ns/op):

BenchmarkConcatString-4 20000000 93.5 ns/op
BenchmarkConcatBuilder-4 30000000 54.6 ns/op
"All Stations To Central" is the mnemonic I still remember as you progress around quadrants of circle:

Whenever I pass through central station in Sydney I hear my high school math teacher's voice:

Less than PI/2 "All are positive
PI/2 through to PI "Sin is positive"
PI through to 3/2 PI "Tan is positive"
3/2 PI through to 2PI "Cos is positive"
I left a lot of that out for mostly privacy and relevancy reasons. I have been contacted by people who recognized me from details in the past and it resulted in trouble not help so I am defensive and hypersensitive I admit because of this, and many questions being used to "dismantle" what I know I need and argue with me rather than anything helpful.

If someone thinks they can truly help I am willing to spill even more in private but I believe the initial post covers the relevant things and states what I need and I took great care to preface lots of stuff.

Sorry to all for the slow replies. I got fairly discouraged as the post was apparently flagged several times and turnout was low. I do appreciate everyone's input.
I think you're talking about currency changes that happen by moving around within US banks, or by moving money between countries where one of those countries is the US or has a specific treaty supporting US foreign taxation.

If it wasn't possible for a US entity to move money between (at least a few) countries that aren't the US without paying US capital-gains, US corporations wouldn't love holding money in Ireland nearly as much as they do. :)
Thanks for mentioning this.

I can't seem to edit it. I'll try resubmitting tomorrow.
* Secure the shit out of those private keys

Are they insured for 100% of the value of the coins on those private keys?

If not, you are paying 2% YoY + X%, where X% is your counterparty risk - the odds that someone at Coinbase fucks up, and your money is irreversibly gone.
Yeah.. this is awful especially for a crytocurrency that has no federal oversight.
As mentioned in the post the disability option is well and truly done in the USA. It's quite broken system with some with even worse issues than me denied and some with nothing really wrong approved. I played the game incorrectly it seems.
The current system the fediverse uses is, more or less, the same as email addresses... with the same downsides. I'm ocdtrekkie@mastodon.cloud ...My account at the server I'm at, just like email. And yeah, email migration is quite a frustrating process, and the best way to take control of it is to own your own domain name.

Perhaps the solution is, like an MX record, for me to be able to assign my social traffic from my domain name to route to a different server, so I can assign it to the server I'm using, and move it at my leisure? This is why I have my personal domain pointed at FastMail for mail, it means I can move it without giving everyone a new address.
>The only way the wife regained control of her own digital and financial life was to tap technologist friends

That sounds very unlikely. This isn't a new problem, and there are procesing in place which discover any and all financial account belonging to the deceased and transfer ownership to the estate's executor. I don't believe for a second that this woman couldn't get into some financial account belonging to her husband without inside help.
Ask HN: How to start a new academic discipline?
I've had a very specific role with multiple organizations over the past 10 years. There's no job title for what I do, but I'm in demand with everything from startups to international organizations.

There is absolutely no literature on this type of work, a bit of research on small parts of it, but no academic institutions that teach it as a curriculum. I kind of just picked up pieces as I went and made it into my own marketable discipline/set of expertise.

I think this role is key to our society and will become significantly more important in the next 10 years. It also has so much potential to push our understanding of people, technology, human rights, etc.

Aside from writing LaTeX articles and publishing in a couple journals that tangentially relate, what are other ways I can lay the foundation for something like this to be its own academic discipline?

Where do I start?
You are severely and grossly underestimating the influence of ancient culture on our everyday lives in India - a living example of what whitewashing of our history has achieved.

In the words of B B Lal, director of the Archaeological Survey of India:

...the application by married Hindu women of vermilion (sindūra) in the partition line of the hair on the head, the wearing of multiple bangles on the arms and of pāyala around the ankles; practice of yogic exercises; worshipping Lord Shiva, even in the form of liṅga-cum-yoni; performing rituals using fire-altars, using sacred symbols like the svastika; and so on. Indeed, be not surprised if I told you that the way you greet each other with namaste goes back to the Harappan times. Above all, even some of the folk tales, like those of ‘A Thirsty Crow’ or ‘The Cunning Fox’, which grandmothers narrate to the children while putting them to sleep originated in the Harappan times.

https://www.newsgram.com/vedic-and-harappan-are-respectively...
Not the person you're replying to, but perhaps the choice to add BCH to Coinbase and GDAX due to perceived personal connections between the founder and Ver? Out of all the coins, they've chosen BTC, ETH, LTC and now BCH (which crashed viciously not just right after the lockup period but immediately in the week following).
The history of genocide is the history of human civilization.

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

"Modern historians give estimates of the scale of the murders by Khmelnytsky's Cossacks ranging between 40,000 and 100,000 men, women and children,[21][22] or perhaps many more.[23]"
And likewise - I appreciate your edit and I think your point is stronger for it (regardless of whether I agree or disagree with it)
Hey thanks for replying. I would like to keep that out of public as I have spilled so many details already that one would definitively ID me.
From my understanding (mainly from reading this article[0]), it's almost impossible to find all of the original producers of most clothes. The manufacturers usually have subcontractors, who themselves have subcontractors, etc. and it will often go as far down as just being made by some woman in her home while she is minding her children.

[0] http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-myth-of-t...
I've never really understood how people seem to socialize between work sets. I've tried and it just completely kills my focus and momentum between sets.

I've noticed the people at my gym who seem to talk the most are the ones who don't really come to train, but to just casually exercise. They don't seem to be following a particular program, or even know what they're doing when it comes to performing certain lifts etc.
> ...less inventory is worth it because of less money locked up in inventory...

Less inventory is worth it because space is money, especially on a retail shelf.
>> most US-like libertarian and decentrally governed place in Europe.

Ah that's your problem the US economic model is punitive, not libertarian.
Only a matter of time before we read about the FBI paid tech putting files on the device in order to get his bounty.
You missed the most common answer: most people don't care if they are right or wrong, they just live their lives.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair
If only we could build all own systems from scratch. I guess I'd be lucky to finish a working terminal emulator, editor and shell in my lifetime, and maybe a window manager as a stretch goal.
If you spin up almost anything on GCP, you can see the monthly cost right there, with all the options you have selected.

A rather obvious gap is this one - How much will an i3.xlarge with an extra 2TiB of storage cost you per month on AWS?
It's worth noting that the first number in a benchmark result is how many loops (for n := 0; n < b.N) that Go used to find the results.

The nanoseconds, bytes, and allocs per operation are the important part.
I feel like a fair number of zoos are like this nowadays. I spent a summer working at the Belize zoo when I was younger and it was the same story, animals that had been kept as pets, had injuries, etc... that wouldn't make it in the wild.
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At my gym, a big chain in my city, there's the word Club constantly used, and it does attract certain types who just like to meet people or chat up people.

I can understand maybe being a small group doing circuits, but for strength training there's no time in between sets to have a conversation. I set a timer of between 2 and 3 minutes if I'm not supersetting, I'm not the best conversationalist during that interval.
Different benefits come from each approach. Printing stuff out means you get a record of what happened during program execution, which you can compare to what you expect to have happened. With breakpoints, you have to keep track in your head, not only of where you are, but of where you expect to be. They can be useful too, but I probably use print statements about ten times as often.
I used to live on a small town on the Empire Builder line a few hours west of Chicago. It was once a day each way, and we'd get one direction in the morning, and the opposite direction in the afternoon. Or that was the theory. Often the morning train was so late that when you heard them sound the horn you wouldn't know if it was the afternoon train or the "morning" train.
Most grocery stores don't even have self-check stations. It's clear that these open more opportunities for loss than they generate returns in increased shopper throughout and return visits.

Meanwhile, my mother still curses the personal computer revolution for taking her job as a transcriptionist. Everyone types today, so specialists are rarely needed.
Love how “some employees” at Google are bent out of shape that Google would help the DoD. To those employees: it’s cool, just sit back, write code, drink your fancy coffees and be self absorbed while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
If I were sure there was no community around the idea at the current point in time I would probably seek to start building that community through different mediums. You could start a meetup that focussed on the discipline, start a blog or aggregate site that collected the available literature and published news in the space. From there if you were willing you could approach different educational institutes and try to build courses or programs around the space. These things combined with other would grow the space and potentially be recognized as a separate discipline.
Export a List of Installed Programs from Windows
But don't they, even in Blackjack, use multiple card decks to kill the odds calculation unless you're Rain Man?

Sorry, but if cryptocurrency is prone to manipulation and fraud (it is), casinos are tens times worse because not only do they do that, as the House must win as a business strategy, but they appeal to people who have addiction issues.

I'm not against casinos but to defend them against cryptocurrency trading and suggest average Joe is better off playing Roulette is in my opinion a misplaced attempt at morality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa_Carrier
You know, there’s this recent tendency to call people Nazis for no reason that I really dislike. Fact is, you don’t know the details of what they have signed up to do, and therefore you can’t make a determination as to the moral standing of all this. For all we know this could very well reduce the overall number of casualties by e.g. spotting IEDs, or letting soldiers avoid areas with high concentration of insurgents if fighting would detract from the main mission. Instead we get histrionics and “killing Jews” comments. I get it, it’s a “woke” thing to do. But there’s a “crying wolf” component to it that one needs to bear in mind as well. There might come time when you’d actually want people to pay attention to you.