skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome post. Bookmarked so I can reread.
Well I was picturing specialty retail and things like dealers, not really big box stores. I think big boxes are doomed, and I think we're better as a society for it.
I didn't say they were evil, but most of the early activity around bitcoin was swirling around in the dark markets which I think is totally fair to describe as shady.
> because we have aligned incentives [with our students] - we only make money if they do.

If you sign up all students and do nothing further, you still get your 7%. That is not aligned.

To align incentives you would have to align the students payments with how much you improved their outcomes - much harder to do of course.

I think your model has the same risks as real estate commissions where the selling agent is highly motivated to sell quickly and they have little motivation to get a higher price.
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I can’t explain why, but I’ve never felt so appreciative of the HN black bar
Is this girl a psychopath, or just traumatised though? The comment was made in the context of a story about psychopaths, so it seems to be intended implication that she is.
Was this driven by end user adoption, or larger scale enterprise sales?
The retail side is currently a very convenient place to generate losses to counterbalance those profits.
Once upon a time, I used to see forlorn C++ programmers wandering around clutching copies of the ARM.

Those were the days.
The raw shell for the workout is:

rm -rf lgthw_*
mkdir lgthw_origin
cd lgthw_origin
git init
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git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
git branch otherbranch
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git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
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git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
cd ../lgthw_origin
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git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
git fetch origin
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
git rebase origin/master
git log --oneline --decorate --all --graph
It has 69% accuracy, that means you still lose 31% of the time.
>Is Holmes still rich after this?

But why it matters at all? Penalty should be proportional to the deed, not to the person's finances.
I don't agree. The typical undergrad CS program doesn't prepare people for AI research, but that's because it dedicates lots of time to discrete/combinatorial stuff and low level systems knowledge. Drop/condense architecture, OS, compiler, exotic data structures and algorithms, networking, programming languages. Add more calculus, linear algebra, probability, optimization, statistics, symbolic AI. That undergrad would be equally good at AI work as a traditional undergrad would be at compiler work. AI field is rarefied now but will not be so forever.
> mobile phones recharging in people's pockets whilst they were in a coffee shop.

While not using the same Qi-like charging mechanism, the physics has been proven: https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/quasistatic-cavit...
Both! We oftentimes tell students what to say and how to say it behind the scenes, but they will always do the actual communication themselves.
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I'm 6'2" and have never had a problem flying coach. It's mostly a question of leg length which can very quite a bit.
I don't think many people likely to be interested in an association football API call it "soccer". They're marketing to that audience, not the minority of the world that assumes "football" refers to a gridiron sport.
The mass of the central black hole is a tiny fraction of the mass of the galaxy, it might be more correct to say that the objects in a galaxy orbit the common mass (including dark matter) of the galaxy.

For example, the black hole at the center of the Milky way is estimated at 4.1×10^6 M (solar mass) and the total Milky Way mass is estimated at 0.8–1.5×10^12 M (figures from Wikipedia).

Some interesting articles found while digging for these numbers:

https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Merritt/Merritt1.html

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/420/4/3621/975383

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/414/3/2446/1042117
This is a terribly written hit piece devoid of any meaningful information. The linked analysis is far better: https://www.justsecurity.org/53705/bill-give-foreign-governm...

And for the opposite perspective be sure to read https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-cloud-act-good-privacy-and-h...

This really isn’t as obvious as one might think.
Bryan Cox is great. Young (um...not old, maybe), knows how to be real, has proper cred as a scientist.

Edit: I mean come on! Dude played keyboard in a couple bands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
> What law restricted it?

I believe the Justice Department brings all federal criminal charges [1] under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure [2]. Bringing criminal charges is specialized work. It makes sense to have the specialists handle specialist work.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/steps-federal-crimi...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp
Yea, I think people blow up the saying out of context from self-confidence to business. If I say, "We're confident we can develop the machine learning technology to deploy X, even though we are currently using human checking" that's a lot different than saying "We can currently do all these things with this machine learning technology we developed" despite the technology not existing yet.

It's essentially someone stating a vision they have as reality, which is fraud.
Also to note just because it may work for one or two times if they start to see a possibility of a large impending loss they can allocate resources to fight small claims cases also.
But on the other hand there are probably few false positives the other way: not showing remorse and mocking the proceedings probably does mean you don't actually feel remorse.
Could the SEC litigation be whybthe VCs has to keep quiet?
You baited me into making an account.

See https://changelog.com/podcast/201#transcript-100

>I had couple months off and I thought, "Hey, I'm just gonna go and cobble together a really quick and simple database engine that just does a few very simple SQL commands, insert the lead, update and select." No joints, wasn't trying to be efficient... All I needed to do was pull stuff off of a disk in that memory.

>And I put it out there and... I've been doing open source for years before this, putting things on my website, and people would find my thing -- or well, you know, I'd put things on my website and it'd get like five downloads per year, or something like that. I'd figured this would be just another one of those things, but for whatever reason it really resonated with people.
And here I thought this entire time that Gary was joking when he predicted this, though I'm glad we didn't have to suffer a war to make this happen.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I always thought Stephen Hawking to be an epitome of what could science possibly do. The way he had used technology to remain alive as well work productively for so long is really mesmerising.

One of my close friend recently lost his entire vision due to optic nerve atrophy. And since then he is sort of lost and we used Stephen Hawking example many times to cheer him and overcome his new disability. And it works as well.

It hurts me a lot to realise now that one of the greatest dreamer of our time is simply gone now.

Sadly his brief period has come to an end.

RIP Stephen Hawking.
It now works wirelessly: https://www.genymotion.com/blog/open-source-project-scrcpy-n... ;)
Found this today after an intense discussion about the pros and cons of buying a rather expensive web security gateway. Still feel uncomfortable with a closed source solution from a big vendor, and the security consultants could not really explain what the benefit will be. But looking at these sales budgets I'm not surprised that management was already biased.
Yes you are right later on people had more skepticism especially after the FDA piled on. The argument I am making is the initial claims they had about testing a single drop of blood were pretty outrageous to anyone that even knows a little bit about how this stuff works. Look at some of the downvoted comments they said exactly this! There are things that can be said well we didn't know they were hiding this, and there are things that people should have listened to someone that has even elementary knowledge of how this stuff works. Look how many people dismissed the impossibility of this stuff with remarks on her connections and the might of SV....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181339
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019
Could this be due to the litigation?
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IMO, unless you get their right you did not get there first. Myspace was not a social network even if people think of it in those terms looking back.
The first time we see something totally unknown to us, just like a normal human bookkeeper, we'll have to ask you about it (assuming there isn't metadata somewhere else that helps us categorize it).

But then once you've told us, unlike a normal human bookkeeper, we won't forget about it later — we'll actually encode a rule in our software that will enforce this check going forward.

(And yes, you also do benefit from "If our system has seen this type of transaction somewhere else, we can make a more intelligent guess")
Whenever I try to research this subject, I just give up for the vagueness, lack of consensus, and general lack of solid information. I'm sure there's some out there - I just can't find it on the Internet. In particular, I'm always frustrated about 'psychopaths' (empathy-lacking, narcissistic, manipulative) being wholly lumped in with violent predators (serial killers, who seem to get visceral gratification from hunting and physically destroying other humans).
selection bias?
If the models have parameters which are tuned purely based on data available up until a certain point in time, and can predict outcomes based on data that is observed after that point in time, then those models can be said to be good predictors.

For example, if a model is trained to calculate the average Earth surface temperature based on recorded CO2 levels up to the year 2000, and then it correctly predicts the average surface temperature of all subsequent years, with just the CO2 levels as input, that would be a very helpful model for deciding what would be a safe level of CO2 to have in the atmosphere if we want the Earth's temperature to have less than some particular amount of warming.
This. SWIG is a heroic effort at cross-language compatibility with C++, but it still gets wonky because C++ interfaces are complex, especially when dealing with templates. I still find that the best way to do language bindings is to expose a plain C interface that has no name mangling and treats objects as opaque pointers. Then write or generate bindings to call this interface from whatever other language you're using. Finally, wrap that basic functionality by hand.

SQLite is meant to be basic infrastructure that is wrapped by a variety of other languages. It should have a lowest-common-denominator interface, and C is good for that. And while it might be easier to implement it in $FAVORITE_LANGUAGE, SQLite is mature and well-tested. In some sense it's "finished," and throwing it out and replacing it would be a waste of time.
Can't it be both? We need it right now and we don't need to to work perfectly or last forever.

Really, we're talking about the same thing like they're two separate things: The software [1] (in this case, SQLite) and the application (whatever tables, queries, etc. you need to solve your problem) are used together. So we build the poorly tested, quick and dirty application on top of the well tested, solid software.

[1] Yes, I realize that "software" is a terribly generic term to use to mean "well designed and tested software" and that "application" is also a terribly generic term to use to mean "hastily designed and untested software". Feel free to mentally substitute your own terms if you have better ones.
Good point, I suppose "69%" accuracy doesn't actually mean that much unless you consider the odds.

I'm pretty sure I could predict Real Madrid vs. my local home town team with better than 69% accuracy, but that doesn't mean much
"fake it until you make it" generally refers to the product implementation vs pitch on the consumer side. e.g. You pitch "The best automated way to do X!", but in actuality you have a horde of people doing the work initially to figure out the problem before building the actual automation. There is nothing wrong with this and remains a completely viable approach. What you don't do is tell your investors you've already built the automation tech and hide the labor cost of doing it manually in your financials.
This is indeed fast. In fact, it's much faster than they should be spinning, going by the visible mass; a galaxy spinning at the speed ours is ought to tear itself apart.

It doesn't, which is a lot of the reason why we think dark matter exists.

Here's a video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx1Wf84bC2M
He's not participating personally: he can't be elected. But his party wasn't barred.
(cynicism) Can we now assume that Google will be getting into cryptocurrencies in some way in the medium future?(/cynicism)
Don't get me started on the whole ICO, crypto hype. Responsible optimism and execution is key to a company's success. Disregard this, and you'll face consequences like these.
We do all of our bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online (and only QBO) today.

In the US, QBO is still definitely the market leader, and we think there are a bunch of benefits for our customers in using QBO. (Bank integrations and other third-party software integrations tend to be better, there's a bigger ecosystem of e.g. tax and accounting firms that are better-equipped to deal with it, etc.)

(And then from an engineering perspective, we can be a lot more efficient if we can focus on targeting one platform.)
I know working as a consultant(salaried full-time for 5 years) helped me get experience to get another job. Seems like a temp agency for only college students would be interesting for companies to bite on. So, they can minimize legal risk from hiring(and firing quickly)
This will wipe her out, and likely kill her career. Remember, this is just the SEC. The pain they inflict is commensurate to investor pain.

The government still should go after them for endangering people’s lives. There should be long jail terms for that.
To make sure I answer your question well...I'm not quite sure I understand this sentence, could you clarify for me?

considering co-op costs are around 8k at my university (don't know about others off the top of my head). Which are covered pretty easily with mandatory 16 months of work experience.

Do you mean a co-op costs you 8k or that you are paid 8k, and is the 16 months of work experience referring to the co-ops or to the full-time job search afterward?
Thanks DannyBee. I appreciate your reply.
HAHAHAHA no. Reddit is not a good model for much of anything.

To start with, they're solving a much simpler problem. A large percentage of their claimed 1.6B users per month are pure drive-bys - outsiders who followed one link one time and then left quickly. That's not the same as two billion users actively posting and interacting with content. Also, their data model is simpler. Even a hundred thousand subreddits are easy to model and manage compared to the "social graph" which is unique for each user.

Even with that smaller scale and simpler model, they're not even trying to address some of the interesting problems such as privacy. You post something to a subreddit and it's visible or not - even to those casual visitors - according to the subreddit's settings. You don't get individual control of each post's visibility, which is essential for many people to control which sides of themselves they show to which groups of friends.

Reddit is shouting in one of many town squares, and can be nothing else. Facebook can also be used that way, but for many it's more importantly a way to have more private interactions. Reddit doesn't even try to solve the interesting problems, so it could hardly be considered a model for solving them.
It could also be that dark matter is distributed proportionately with observed regular matter.
EF is not everyone's cup of tea. Dapper works just fine in Net Core 2.
Cryptocurrency ad bans are a step in the right direction
As a curious aside: In some scandanavian countries, the penalties are directly tied to wealth (e.g. the $103,000 speeding ticket [1]). The idea is to make the punishment proportional to each individual so that wealth cannot simply grant you a free pass to violate "minor" laws.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
It is not about respecting authority. It is about respecting strangers and using the proper words to describe them.

Since that person is not present, it is best to be as formal as possible.

Call men "a man", call women "a woman", boys "a boy" and girls "a girl". Using words like "babe", "chick", "kiddo" for people you don't know is a blatant lack of respect.

Using "a chick" in the current context is plain wrong to me. It's fine if you know her, but talking about a third-party this way is disrespectful from my point of view.

My issue with this comment has nothing to do with gender or feminism. It is all about the correct use of words when addressing strangers.
Sorry- you had stair privileges? How does that work?
I don't think this is intended for electronic communications.
[Great argument that can be used to portray the dangers of rouge AI.]

Without humans in the governance loop, the specific needs of financial law enforcement are ignored, and more generally the needs of law abiding society are ignored as the algorithms do not follow the the laws of jurisdictions where customers live.

Examples:
1. Many jurisdictions have applicable taxes on bitcoin assets and transactions.

2. Many jurisdictions have applicable KYC and AML regulations on payments and security transactions.

3. Money services businesses have an entity that can be legally sued for damages caused by MSB misbehavior.

Bitcoin's Anarchy will lead to progressively more suppression from social media and governments.
When we were kids we fantasized with our father about what keeps the great wheel spinning. One of my brothers suggested, that all that matter that gets into the central black hole forms a disk-shapped thing in "hyper-space" which drags all matter along. But this disproves his mini-theory- because every galaxy would have diffrent matterdiscs- and thus would either have a diffrent size or diffrent speed.
1. In the contract, students agree to something called a Tax Information Authorization (https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8821-tax-informati...) to allow us to view their tax information to verify payments if necessary. This is fairly standard practice for income share agreements.

2. Same answer as question 1. Also, just to add to this, most students are pretty honest since we're likely to be friends at the end of the program anyways.

3. They normally pay through a share of their monthly income. If they are laid off, and therefore don't make any income that month, they don't pay us anything. However, the payment is then deferred until they can pay again, for a maximum of 2 years, after which everything left is absolved. The goal is to never have anyone have to pay money they don't have.

4. 7% of the total income received. They still pay through a share of their monthly income.

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Thanks for the prompt reply! I didn't know such an agreement per (1) existed. In the unlikely event a student refused to pay you, how would you collect? Sue them?
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On the executive branch overreach portion it appears congress has some review authority. I am fine with the president being able to preform some actions, but I am always a fan of having their be public or at least congressional visibility and accountability.
> The best and most realistic action individuals can take is to freeze their accounts at the big three credit companies

Or you know, just don't give a shit. "Identity theft" is a nonsensical oxymoron meant to make you think you're responsible for others' gross incompetence.

At this point, if an institution is defrauded because they relied on public identifiers for the purposes of authentication in 2018, then I don't really see how its really even my responsibility to help them sort their mess out.

The practical legal action should be focused on libel when the fallout of such gross negligence is repeated as if it were factual. And the lofter goal should be aimed at shutting the private surveillance bureaus down, as their modus operandi is essentially a human rights violation.
Agreed, a "progressive" pricing based on salary would be a good way to address this, e.g. >50k -> 1%, >80k -> 3%, >100k -> 5%, >120k -> 7%.
Cool! How does aws translate their docs?
Yes! "Pilot recommended financial stack" is definitely at the top of the list of blog posts we want to write because it's just super-nice to get set up on the right stack from day one, rather than having to worry about it when things are more complicated.

The short, spoiler version for now is: Gusto, Chase corp card, Stripe, Expensify, bill.com if you do a lot of invoicing.

(And then the more 101 stuff, like, "Please don't mix business and personal expenses")
So let's say I have a $29.99 expense from AMAZON.COM and tag it as a marketing expense. Then I buy something else from Amazon tomorrow for $44.99.

Are you telling me that it gets automatically tagged as marketing? Because that seems... naive at best, and hugely problematic at worst (as it can result in a huge amount of expenses getting incorrectly tagged).
You're isolated from both other people and from the cool things you can do without other people.
Well, here's my take on this; A disease is only a disease if it causes you dis-ease.

Some people howl and wail about a paper cut, others will continue through the day with a broken limb as if nothing happened. I am sure the same can be said for mental ailments; some people can't function with even the slightest sad thought, others can apparently become great scientists under the strongest psychopathy.

In this guy's case - he clearly does feel some dis-ease about his body. Whether or not the medical community agrees doesn't really matter, we have no ability to measure the mind, so we have to go off of what people tell us.

The biggest problem I see with this guy is that he's using the people around him as part of his therapy, whether or not they want to be a part of it.
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