skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I believe there are many significant unmeasured externalities - The benefits of financial educations, the computer science education that is making this very automation possible, the critical thinking skills etc.

And on the other side of the coin, the opportunity cost of the student not working 4 years 'in the real world'.

But generally (and probably controversially, although the following is not intended to devalue non-uni-goers) I would place massive value in it producing more scientific, globally aware people - And being the best structure to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' to embody human 'continuous improvement'
It is impressive, and in a sense it's a very... effective... demo. The problem is that not all of us are in a position to spend that much bandwidth by accident.
I don't really know the ins and outs of how. I've never been sued by patent trolls. I've been threatened, just responded with some of the evidence I have and a, "Are you sure you really want to do this?" and I never hear from them again.

When I've helped defend other companies (two of which are among the largest/most prominent in the games industry), I've just provided expert witness testimony as to the existence of prior art. I've never had to testify about it in court, so I'm fairly sure that each time the trolls dropped it before going to court.

As to how much it costs - no idea. They had pricey lawyers though, so there's certainly some cost involved. I suppose it depends on how big the balls on the troll are, or perhaps how easily they think the defendant will be intimidated into just settling.
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It's funny because towards the end of the article:

> As Scott and his colleagues noted in their paper, if a pathogen grows exponentially and a population receives a statistically normal distribution of exposures to it, then a lognormal distribution of incubation times should result

This makes it seem trivially obvious that you would expect a log normal distribution. I'm conflicted because I'm glad I read an interesting article, but why was it presented as if there were any surprise or mystery to it?
Should be an easy enough problem to spot. If there's an UHF audio source that intense in a room, it'd show up on a good-quality tweeter wired to an oscilloscope.
As the general lack of widespread usage of chemical weapons since WWI (yes, there are notable exceptions, including the Iran-Iraq war) would suggest, those treaties have prevented a whole lot of human suffering.

Imagine what Vietnam would have been like if both sides had used chemical weapons extensively.
passenger airplanes not known for going into war zones.
"Trump is poised to cut the agency’s budget even further. The number of audits has plummeted, with only .7% of all individuals audited in 2016."

Trump wasn't in office for any of that "plummet" period. That statistic shows lack of enforcement by the prior administration.

"If the IRS doesn’t have the manpower to parse the bill and send out estimated tax forms in time..."

Uh, the 1040-ES form is a one-page (actually, each payment slip is one-fourth of a page) downloadable, free PDF. Perhaps somebody in his office would be kind enough to show him how to use the Interwebz and a printer.
>A big part of it will involve making us the customer, not the product

Bowen: When you get a collection of young, nerdy, socially awkward people together and they're emotionally invested into a website you're going to have those types of problems.

Kyanka: So I said to myself, "OK, what's a way we can get rid of idiots like this? Because I don't want to sit here babysitting the forums nonstop." So I said, "If you want an account, PayPal me ten bucks and I'll register you an account." And he immediately went away and those issues immediately went away.

Bowen: When [Rich] started charging for forums accounts registrations, he wasn't doing that to make money. He was doing that because he was sick of banning people from the forums and then having them just come back immediately with a new account.

Hendren: When Rich put the paywall in effect, it kept idiots out to an enormous degree. It was probably the smartest decision he ever made in regards to the website. You have to put in a little investment if you want to participate and if you're a real shithead you're going to end up paying Rich like $150 because you keep buying accounts, which is good for the site and it's also kind of funny to watch really, really bad people shell out a lot of money.

source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nzg4yw/fuck-you-a...
Tor Project “Almost 100% Funded by the US Government”: FOIA
If you're on a ship with a reactor, it's more just about how you are using your energy than the cost of the energy. You're generating that power no matter what. However if you're on a conventional power then yes you would count it.
Back in the 1970s, I played Monopoly on the PDP-10. The Monopoly money was "virtual".
According to their flow, they collect user information after displaying a policy. My point is, if you re-arrange their flow chart, do you "invent around" the problem? (thereby negating their claim that you violate their patent(since their patent still relies on a specific process)?
> Fishermen stand next to chinooks almost as tall as they are, sometimes weighing 100 pounds or more.

This is a fish story. 100 pound chinooks have always been INCREDIBLY rare. While there are records of very few fish that size being netted or trapped, the world hook and line record is "only" 97 pounds.

And a salmon of 125 pounds would be about 62-65", certainly not "almost as tall as a fisherman." The writer should learn about the fisherman's trick of forced perspective- i.e. standing behind the fish to make it look bigger.

Hard for me to take a lot of the article seriously when they can't get a pretty simple fact right.
A quick skim of articles comparing perpetual and SAAS licensing suggest SAAS is more lucrative. If he's barely making a profit now, this sounds like it only gets worse.

I based my assessment of the scenario in part on this being his largest client. Large companies routinely screw over small ones. It is par for the course. You can basically assume that if a big company wants it, you are likely to lose your shirt if you are overly cooperative with their agenda. They are looking out for number one. They are not looking out for you.
There is a permission prompt that appears, websites can't use the WebUSB functionality until you allow them too.
You're also probably a lot more likely to receive products that aren't counterfeit when ordering from Target/etc. I've pretty much completely stopped using Amazon for that reason. It's just not worth the risk.
Their patent is for digital tokens ... Clearly rubies are your "unit of currency". Is there any chance it was supposed to be Rubles but was misspelled?
I assume the upcoming changes you're talking about are the new "structured styles", which I think are overall a good idea. Ultimately, though, the key remaining question will be if they can balance the need for customization with some level of uniformity. So far they've been very slow with the beta test and appear to be taking feedback into account, which leaves me hopeful that the final result will be a net improvement.

I think that overall it's a good move for Reddit, as the prevalence of pleasant-looking neutral themes like Naut is a good indication that the default is not really good enough anymore. My hope is that the new structured styles will provide a good balance between customizability and clean design that other sites might follow as a lead.
It is now ok to ask for upvotes on Product Hunt
Hey HN community,

Recently, I've bumped into a lot of posts on FB and Twitter from PH makers who directly ask to upvote for their products with a link. Their voting count on PH was pretty decent varying from 150-600 upvotes and didn't look like they were down in the ratings, but instead, in featured and some even made it to the products of the day.

Why PH moderators and algorithm doesn't track this suspicious activities?

Or is it became "ok" to ask for an upvote directly?

Some examples:
https://twitter.com/RivallyApp/status/968891322848436224
https://www.facebook.com/nanuk.coliving/
https://twitter.com/DoshCash/status/969262466701119489
https://twitter.com/reshot_HQ/status/968902211462873088
It seems like there would be a narrow window where firms would want a "Coming soon" website. So you'll only have like five minutes in the new firm's life get their attention and get them to sign on the line that is dotted. Also, since they are new they won't have much cash to spend.

There are lots of website creator websites (Wix comes to mind, or even wordpress), so cutting through the others' marketing noise and capturing a new firm within a short window seems very difficult.

It might be interesting to look at the tactics of capturing customers for other businesses that cater to the initial steps of creating an entrepreneurial venture. LegalZoom comes to mind (for incorporating a new business). Also, The UPS Store and getting a PO box --- how do they attract new small businesses?

My $0.02. Good luck!
> WASM has fairly strict stack/frame rules/types, so arbitrary gotos wouldn't work.

kinda funny because golang follows the same idea.
Fair Use Protects So Much More Than Many Realize
Dogs have evolved/been bred for tens of thousands of years to instinctively bond with, trust, and genuinely love humans. Their biological purpose is to be our companions and helpers. Eating them is a primal act of betrayal and pure cruelty. It is an active rejection of some of the most beautiful facets of humanity and of life in general for the sole purpose of eating something that tastes like chicken.

As someone else have pointed out there is no legitimate economic reason to raise dogs for food due to their being carnivores. If people are starving to death then sure, eat dogs to survive. Otherwise my point above stands.

Pigs may be smart, but they have no such special relationship with humanity beyond being domesticated for food. Killing a pig is not killing an animal whose brain is physiologically structured to love you. And while I personally eat pork & beef, I don't necessarily think that people who view it as abhorrent are wrong. 95% of animal consumption in today's world is abhorrently wasteful and destructive. I will gladly eat lab grown meat when it's widely available and of acceptable quality, which can't come soon enough.
The Post-TPP Future of Digital Trade in Asia
The server market is booming
... sigh.
It feels almost time to start referring to partnerships rather than companies.

How long before (presuming legislation continues to lag) we have

Apple-Fedex-Disney

Amazon-Ford-Spotify

Google-DHL-Sonos
Banks don't create inflation. The proof of that is that there's net 0 inflation in the historical periods of free banking (like in the US before 1914).

> This is also why it's important to have the government create a certain amount of money

Somehow it all worked fine before the fiat money system started in 1914. A century of incredible economic growth, and no net inflation.

Any analysis of the causes of inflation need to take into account the US from 1800-1914.
Go take a look at token bound channels. It sure could but it'd be completely useless to do so.
Twitter is mostly a reflection of the way you use it. I had used 3 accounts to this day, and while i did encounter many hateful tweets, that's only a fraction of it.

Most of the stuff i encountered were very self centered, but not hateful.
Any sample sites that are based on/use hearth? Is it like a normal http(s) protocol/type URL?
http://engineersguidetofreelance.com

^ https was not enabled :[
The HN "Hug of Death" strikes again (as of 0300 GMT 3 March):

"... this has caused your site to exceed the Bandwidth or Storage limits..."
If you can get a patent from the patent office, it is by definition.
I am in agreement with you. Luckily the majority of people convicted of crimes are actually guilty of what they're convicted of.

Now I don't believe people should be going to jail for petty drug offences, and that drugs in general should be decriminalized, so we can disagree that the laws being used to convict people should be changed, but the vast majority of people being convicted of breaking laws are actually breaking those laws.
Perhaps teach an expert system to automate selecting a flowchart on the fly for each user, that will accomplish a given set of requirements and also not be found in a search of the existing patent corpus. Don't forget to patent it though.
I'm not worried about that. If that's the way they are going to treat people, I probably don't actually want to work there.
The same physics that makes shotguns safe to clay shoot with seem like natural ballistic solutions to this..

But sure, lasers I guess.
So would it be safe to say that they "hate" those subjectively-defined groups, and that they themselves are therefore a hate group?
Secret Bedrock Water Stores May Help Trees Survive Droughts
By giving off this impression, all the better for his agenda.
Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before White House tariff talks
No, it's you who is missing the fact that ability to destroy someone's career is not gender related, but sexism is. You also don't bother to find that statistically cases of false accusations are very rare while numbers of ppl who perform all kinds of discrimination and harassment and get away with it are huge, and exactly this is the main and many times more important problem than statistically small cases of side effects like you describe. Again, learn something about the problem first, you get it backwards and ignore the most important facts.
We did use chemical weapons, just not organophosphate nerve agents, vessicants, and choking agents. Instead we used defoliants, which just happen to also be carcinogenic and teratogenic agents. Besides, chemical weapons are for urban and open battlefield use, they would be counterproductive in a jungle.

You know why we don’t use them? They suck. Even in WWI, after people figured out what they were about, casualties from chemical agents were never as extreme as in their initial deployment. Militaries train and equip soldiers to handle chemical agents, which rely on favorable atmospheric conditions as well.

What chemical weapons are good at doing is murdering civilians, especially the very young and very old. They’re a terror weapon with minimal utility beyond killing people who were never going to fight you anyhow.

So no, we didn’t use them in Vietnam, we used daisy cutters and napalm and iron bombs, not because they’re kinder, but because they’re efficacious. Laws against white phosphorous and other incendiary weapons hasn’t altered their prevalence, because they work. Depleted Uranium, megatons of lead, and other horrific pollutants, not to mention land mines are still wildly popular because they work as intended. That they also decimate populations for years after conflict ends doesn’t matter to people, just that they work.

Don’t kid yourself.
>non-JS WASM backend

...what's a non-js wasm backend?
That's pretty cool. Definitely want to play with that.

Tangential note: Does anyone know of a decent replacement for Graphviz written in Go or some other more modern language? Maybe this is just a solution looking for a problem, but Graphviz (as great and needed as it is) feels a bit long in the tooth and it's maybe not as scalable or fast as one would want.
The rage yes maybe, but Star Citizen is definitely not off topic. Article mentions WC1-3, it's a franchise article. SC is Origin's canceled Privateer Online [:)] without the license.

For the Wing Commander community, they're inseparable despite the licensing.

[:)] http://www.wcnews.com/privateeronline.shtml
Microsoft gave a Jan 2018 presentation on Windows 10 "Hardening with Hardware" features that are going to be rolled out in upcoming releases, e.g. Hyper-V dynamic root of trust, remote attestation, per-app VM with copy-on-write memory, GPU isolation via IOMMU, secure enclaves.

Slides: https://github.com/Microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/mas...

Video: https://youtube.com/watch?&v=8V0wcqS22vc
GP didn't suggest remaining silent though, they suggested pushing for alternatives instead of just talking about it.
It's the latter.
I'd like to thank you for your products too!
I use cryptozombies to teach 3 of my siblings to code in the blockchain.
How do railways (freight, passengers) or telcos not meet the definition of “multi-sided firm”? Those are the first two monopoly cases that came to mind. Can you name any anti-trust suit ever brought against a firm with one set of customers? (And zero suppliers/employees, if you take the argument being made to its logical extreme)

I’m not buying the “this time it’s different” argument at all.
My first thought was that most of my computer science classes in college were in classrooms without computers. I think that was a very good thing. It's interesting that this is instead teaching an understand of basic UI concepts and specific applications.
The ulimit serves as a good reminder that excessive stack use is undesired.
You're a good person. I hope a lawyer with your character contacts you about pursuing sanctions for vexatious litigation against these guys.

At least invalidating the patent.
“I shall not speak of the railway, for it is like any other railway—I shall only say that the fuel they use for the locomotive is composed of mummies three thousand years old, purchased by the ton or by the graveyard for that purpose, and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "D--n these plebeians, they don't burn worth a cent—pass out a King …”

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Speed, scaling, and ease of use to those who like touch screens. Schneier mentions those benefits in a nice essay that argues against electronic voting:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/11/the_problem_w...
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x86 elf -> wasm could solve this problem.
And they can load their code into the baseband processor without any interaction from the user.
> If a black woman came to me with a background in East Asian linguistics, would I naturally associate her with the success stories I've seen, or would I think she's unqualified and needs to get more experience elsewhere?
> I suspect the latter.

Really? And you would not think that of a white candidate?

Frankly, I would be intrigued by anyone with a background in East Asian linguistics who taught themselves programming, and would be very careful not to quickly discount them.
The Splintering of the Second World
As a consumer though I kind of appreciate having that power over a merchant if they decide they want to fuck me over.
>> The entire concept of social media is toxic. And all to show you more ads.

Social media funded by venture capital, maybe. Most Mastodon instances big enough to need outside funding run on a few Patreon or Liberapay contributions. The main one gets enough for the developer to work on it full time.

Social media doesn't have to be the way Facebook and Twitter convinced people it has to be.
Oh geeze... This brings back memories. I didn't do Geocities. I took an HTML class at my local ISP (yes that existed). This was the earliest version I could find on Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991006132018/http://www.richne...

It's profoundly terrible, but I'm still in web development, so there's that...
The three main advantages are: 1. can create effect on target independent of evasive manuvering 2. effectively infinite magazine 3. near infinite cost of exchange ratio.

All of these make lasers very compelling for defensive CIWS.

The fundamental problem the Navy is terrified about is huge barrages of high speed, high maneuverability, anti-ship missiles. Existing systems are very limited in stopping such an attack if large enough.
If tracking down these kinds of errors on the desktop took you days, your tooling was maybe not good enough. I honestly cannot remember a an instance where valgrind completely failed me. This is lind of my gold standard for debugging memory issues.

Also, some microcontrollers have amazing debugging support these days. Instruction tracing on Cortex M devices is a great feature, for example. The CPU will log every instruction that it executes over a serial interface for the hardware debugger to store. This allows you to go back in time after the fact, something that desktop debuggers have a really hard time with.
a solution already exists. it's called a private tracker.
A short and powerful infinite scroll list library for angular5
> There hasn’t been a huge push. What law firms did in the 1980s and 1990s was basically decide “we’re going to hire an equal number of men and women.”

If this is true, then there must have been a lot of women coming out of law schools in the 1980s and 1990s. Otherwise, law firms in general could never hire and equal number of men and women. It's statistically impossible.

Whereas there are only a very small percentage (<10%) of women now graduating with CS and software engineering majors.
Taleb is in my "Stephen Wolfram" list too. I'm curious, who else is in yours?
I've seen this a lot. I use google to search Amazon almost exclusively.
Just because something is legal, doesn't mean that we as consumers must like it.
Why bother about side effects that are unavoidable but statistically insignificant? You can say it about any type of cryme that you can be wrongfully accused of it. So what do you suggest, gust stop punishing any crimes because of it and go back to chaos? These cases are just not a valid argument. Sexism should be punished and should be stopped, side effects shouldn't stay in the way of measures against it. Our whole legal system works like that, why is it suddenly a problem exclusively when it comes to dealing with sexism.
My personal site is nowhere near as funny as the e-commerce site that my dad and I started that was built off of his brick-and-mortar bicycle store chain. Dad edited the site with some horrible text editor. There was no shopping cart; you would email or fax your order form to us with your credit card on it. People still loved it and we were getting dozens of orders a day within a couple of weeks of launching.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961030052323/http://www.bikewo...