skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person is a chinese expat, with a chinese passport. I think he knows the difference. And you only have to look to the rest of asia to see in this case, it's not a difference of 'culture'.
It's amazing that you are being downvoted for explaining exactly what Ben Bernanke himself said back in 2010. [0].

"This approach eased financial conditions in the past and, so far, looks to be effective again. Stock prices rose and long-term interest rates fell when investors began to anticipate this additional action. Easier financial conditions will promote economic growth. For example, lower mortgage rates will make housing more affordable and allow more homeowners to refinance. Lower corporate bond rates will encourage investment. And higher stock prices will boost consumer wealth and help increase confidence, which can also spur spending. Increased spending will lead to higher incomes and profits that, in a virtuous circle, will further support economic expansion".

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/other/o_bernanke20...
Tor needs a few legitimate anchors to counter attitudes like this.
I first heard of him from the initial version of his Wikipedia entry, and I wondered if he had written it himself (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adrian_Lamo&oldid...)

Wikipedia was different in those days. A few hours after it was posted, Larry Sanger himself added a comment to the end saying "Um, can we clean up the above puff job, please?"
Tinder sues former co-founders’ Bumble over patents and more
"humane" does not mean "human".
I'm curious to see what FB does to mitigate this sort of data grab in the future. Is there anything stopping them from creating a walled garden around user data? For instance, they could enforce that any code with access to user PII has to be run on their servers, and all results can only display aggregate data? It still can be manipulated, but it seems like it would be harder
> The waging war by religion seems incomplete too, you only have two unit types: apostles and missionaries.

There are actually four or five: missionaries (inexpensive weak offensive unit), apostles (expensive strong offensive unit with random unique bonuses), inquisitors (defensive unit), and gurus (support unit, heals adjacent units). There are also warrior monks, which only one religion may have and, despite being melee units rather than religious units, will spread their religion when defeating another unit in combat.

I'm still a little torn on the religious mechanics in 6, but it's certainly the most involved the series has ever made it, and probably strictly better than 5's implementation. Your points about AI trading are true to home, though there have been a few improvements to trade routes in patches and the recent expansion (by adding a "repeat route" button to the trader menu, and also generally by nerfing trade routes so you generally have fewer of them).
JS++ 0.8.0: Altitude MVC, Generics, System.Dictionary, and More
Particularly powerful when you look at it in the context of poverty in Japan in general.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15891674
> 1. Does providing job security at the expense of pay increase or decrease loneliness? Obviously if the pay is too low there will be turnover, but is there an amount X, where X is not market rate, but still high enough so that if there were security people would just stay? Surely low turn over will result in more relationship formation which can be positively correlated with not feeling lonely.

To be honest, if you offered me a 40 hour a week max, $60k (increasing with inflation), and something similar to tenure after working there 1 year...yeah I'd take it. The core problem every adult runs in at some point is their outside-work responsibilities and long term stability is the most valuable commodity you can offer them.

That offer doesn't really exist right now, even where employees are "highly valued" like software development.

My only real stress in life is the possibility of unemployment that might require me to relocate to some place I don't want to be (like SF) with a high cost of living and high levels of urbanization.
Actually, no, when a political campaign buys something, they have to pay a fair price, or it's illegal. You can see that issue invoked many times during every election.
I'm 99% sure there's no way anyone would vote for him, regardless of anything.
The video above was 7-week before the Trump campaign and this one is after the result and a sort of review of the "success":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bG5ps5KdDo
Confirmation that the vulnerabilities are legitimate pretty much writes this one off. At the time I wrote it this wasn’t entirely clear, though it seemed probable (though even then they could have been overstated).
Bollards in the middle of the road are dangerous. The solution is to segregate the bike lane by putting it on the right of the parked cars, next to the pedestrians. This means that cyclists will cross together with the pedestrians and that left turns require two lights, but these can be programmed so that the waiting time is minimized (OTOH, cyclists have no lights for turning right).
How secure are cookies against MITM?
Wow everything about this guy just gives me the chills.
As a baby boomer, this would have confused me 'till recently.

I've been studying generational differences for an upcoming talk, so I'm tuned into generational attitudes.

We had a mail-list thread this past week about an employee who felt lonely. I found it hard to relate to, but someone on the thread mentioned a YouTube video by Simon Sinek, it's about Millennials in the workplace. It really clicked-- I can see how some people feel this way.
No, actually, no. People can volunteer their personal labor for campaigns, but if a corporation gives data "for free" or a lawyer pays off an adult industry actress "for free", that's a campaign contribution.
It was rumors of this process that made me encourage everyone to use a 12-digit or greater passcodes.
Ummmmm, you’ve got it around the wrong way friend. The central banks are buying the bonds. You had already taken on the risk of buying the bond. The fed then came and said, “I’d like to buy your bond and give you 20 years of interest payments on top of your principal.”
RFID tags combined with cameras watching for and flagging untagged bikes.
The amazing thing for me about Colonization is that it still runs on relatively recent versions of windows. Just stick the wing.dll file in your system32 directory, and run it.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601470
It's pretty difficult to argue that NYC was "designed for cars" in the same way as Houston when much of it was designed in the pre-car era. See for instance Manhattan's street grid designed in the 1800s, and large parts of the other boroughs. It's true that parts were REdesigned for cars to some extent, taking away street space, adding highways, etc.

Source: researching my ancestors' addresses in NYC from 1880 onward and seeing how many of the streets from then still exist now.

(Re biking in NYC, it's great to see the changes.)
I was at a conference at Caltech. Someone set up boxes of food for lunch. Someone at my table grabbed one and started to eat. I noticed that it said "Stephen Hawking Lunch Gluten Free / Vegan" on it - it was already half-eaten, and I figured it'd be too good an opportunity to pass on, so I decided to eat some of stephen hawking's lunch, literally.

It turns out that despite his physical limitations he actually did eat normal solid foods. This was in 2011.
My initial reaction to your post was "Wait, these are networks of bots, not botnets." But now I'm wondering. Do botnet slaves typically run Twitter accounts?
That presumes there's a pressing reason to pay thousands of dollars for a bitcoin. Which seems absurd to me. If it ceased to exist, my life wouldn't be affected in the least.
Totally agree with you on this point. Most westerners don't have knowledge about Chinese "hukou" system and easily mislead by false information.
People aren't that dumb, but it is still pretty scary that he'd be able to scientifically design an electoral campaign that can be updated in real time using various FB tools. No other politician has access to power like that.

I can't imagine what kind of coalition he could assemble. I don't know if it would win, but if he takes whatever position his data tells him, the only obvious thing that would sink him would be his lack of authenticity. Imagine a candidate that always had an appealing take to a slim to large majority on whatever issue (for people that don't know too much about the issue).

In the previous 2016 race, HRC was perceived as inauthentic and lost. DJT was perceived as authentic to a substantial fraction the right (not the media class, though that has changed with the direction of the wind) and inauthentic to the left.
The layout is a bit awkward at first, mainly due to no arrow keys. I switched to HHKB from Poker 3 (another keyboard with 40% layout). Even then I had a brief amount of hard times adjusting to HHKB. Nowadays, I use both of them at home and office and love them.

I heard Realforce are pretty good too!
Seems good: make the law reflect reality, rather then fake laws with no enforcement.
Dump facebook. Just do it.

Make your final posts informing your friends how to contact you by email. Follow up with a reminder or two over the coming weeks and delete it.

It will be the best feeling you ever had from doing something with your facebook account.
> I firmly believe that the actions Mister Rodgers took would come across as insincere and self-serving if it were basically any other “celebrity”.

On the one hand, I think Fred Rogers was a wonderful human being. What I say next is not meant to detract from that in any way at all.

I don't think Fred Rogers was special.

Anyone can do what he did; the problem is that most people simply don't want to, I think. We've been taught that that kind of behavior is tiring, that we deserve "me" time and thoughts, that the public space is also "our" space.

When I think about Fred Rogers, my mental image is that service is first, then celebrity came from that consistent service. Any modern day celebrity could slowly take on a Fred Rogers-like image if they chose to consistently and wholly devote themselves to kindness and service.

In the beginning, it may seem insincere, but then as it continued consistently, I think that sincerity would be born from that consistency. Especially if they ceased other commercial activities or used those activities solely to plainly drive their service.

Edit: I've been reading the Esquire article about him (https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-...) and interestingly enough, there's a quote about this: "You would think it would be easy by now, being Mister Rogers; you would think that one morning he would wake up and think, Okay, all I have to do is be nice for my allotted half hour today, and then I'll just take the rest of the day off . . . But no, Mister Rogers is a stubborn man"
Um, I thought I was pretty clear: when the fed prints money to buy a specific asset, then it’s free money for the asset holders.
You may have noticed that sometimes things change over time, American financial dominance is likely to undergo some serious changes in the next decade as people begin to wake up to the new economic realities of the world.
Wow! A heartfelt thank you for this massive effort. Amazing work mate. Cheers!
Chrome unmasks your identity to sites you’ve logged out of
Since when are police empowered to issue their own warrants? (As opposed to a judge)
You’ve chosen an arbitrary amount of Bitcoin and said “1000$ for this arbitrary amount is absurd!!1”

Would you feel better if I told you one satoshi is worth $0.00008?
Any plans for Common Lisp? Or Mumps?
Yeah, although I wouldn't say that has much bearing on whether or not it's true.

I think everyone is tempted to accept theories that justify the world view he/she hopes is true.
So, I'm far to the left of most people, and I'm no fan of Trump, but I watched that video and I got the sense I usually get from reading about ML/big data, people seem to be selling these as more than they actually are. It almost is intuitive if not, I guess, what most people who study market research already know: you tailor your message to your audience. Even on a personal level, anyone who has navigated real life with real people knows that you have to communicate with people in the way that they will be most receptive. Nowhere are they "planting" ideas in people's heads, nowhere are they brainwashing people, they are merely saying the same message (for example, defend the 2nd ammendment) to people who might already agree in a way that they'll receive it. The big 5 personality traits are an already well known and documented idea, and even without that, in your day-to-day life, you learn what people's personalities are and you tailor how you communicate with them anyway.

The thing that they seem to bring to the table however is the massive amount of personalized data. That is the issue here, because that data can be abused by nefarious actors if it were to fall in the wrong hands. What usually takes a much more personal touch (like going out to voters, talking to them, or if you can't do that, have teams on the ground that talk to voters and tell you before your speech what they care about and why) can be done in mass due to essentially aggregating private data that users "agree to" obliviously or even don't consent to. That is the issue at hand, not like Cambridge somehow warped the people in Wisconsin's brains to mush and made them go to the polls.
Current temperature is maybe the hottest in recorded history (which is about 150 years) and that is a big maybe. Its definitely not the hottest in human history. Medieval warming period was much warmer than it is now. I would even argue the 1930s were hotter as well.
The sentence structure is ambiguous, but it is a perfectly common way of expressing that the police were issued warrants as well as the interpretation you seem to have of it expressing that the police have issued warrants.
This is a good way to solve problems in NP. First, guess an answer uniformly at random. Check if it's correct (in polynomial time). If it isn't, blow up the planet. Conditioned on surviving, you also have solved the NP problem in polynomial time.

You can also use a world-ending device to prove that this reasoning works. Blow up the world with probability .99999999999. Conditioned on surviving, you will then be nearly certain that quantum hell is real- more certain than about nearly any other physical theory.

The other problem is that depending on how you count, almost all observers are actually hallucinating Boltzmann brains. There are duplicates of us, but there are arguably even more pocket universes with hallucinating brains that just very briefly remember being something like us and then die.

So that's not very reassuring.
Among other things it's virtually a HN rule at this point that the top voted post is critical. A purely positive post is a clear red flag and indicates sarcasm or some other snark.
You might be right. I'm talking specifically about the 26k year cycle due to earths wobble.
A possible solution... remove revenue. Hell, have the fines be earmarked as a direct cash back tax cut or something. Redistribute the money from the guilty to the innocent, and keep the motivations clean.
> The idea that the Russians invented rejecting someone's argument on the grounds that the person making the argument is a hypocrite strikes me as rather unlikely.

That is definitely exactly what happened. We would say something about them invading Afghanistan or forcibly making satellite states in the Warsaw pact, and they would instantly come back with "Well, we're not the ones lynching black people." It's remarkably persuasive if you don't think it through.
I disagree when the medium is text; it's harder without tone to hear.
$450 million is equally misleading though, isn’t it?
I haven't done anything with Scala in a long time.

Tree incremental is important for large projects with < 50 ms response times. But it does require memoizing lots of information.
That's almost certainly true, but why risk it in the chance you did win? Your sketchy family business is now under the purview of the public, which is exactly what is happening now.
Your personal preferences are understandable, but they should not be the basis for public policy. Most households in New York do not even own a car. Using a 200 hp machine to move one 70 kg person is extremely wasteful. Not to mention the death toll (>1000 persons/year in NY) and the disproportionate amount of public property reserved for motor traffic and parking.

Are you arguing that the ensuring the comfort of some car owners is the best use of public resources?
I believe that the headline is intended to be read as:

"NC Police Were Issued Warrants to Search Data on All Google Devices Near Murder Scene"

Headlines are frequently written in terse language to save space. In this case, I'd guess that the editors assumed that since everyone knows that judges issue warrants, the intent would be clear.
We had horrible interactions with Zuora in terms of integration. Worst vendor ever.
Pretty common for me to get downvotes for making a statement that goes against the hackernews groupthink. Then their comment throttle kicks in and I can’t post for a few hours and the groupthink can continue without interruption.
And moving slower too. Office at least has fairly regular upgrades. Google Apps has barely changed in years.
This research paper is essentially a recommendation to use the Latin Modern Roman font in Microsoft Word in such a way as to “trick” someone into thinking the document was typeset in LaTeX at first glance. It seems like using pandoc or something similar would make a lot more sense for achieving what the author had in mind.
The best way for them to maintain their walled garden is by restricting 3rd party access to the data. This isn't to protect users, it's to maintain and improve their wall.
They should be secure as long as you're using tls?
> I hear people don't really like the newer versions?

As someone who's been playing since 3, I consider those people tragic victims of nostalgia. :P The newest game, 6, is great and strictly better than 5 (I could make this a very, very long comment explaining why, but I'll spare you), though with one exception: the mod scene on 5 is much more mature, so if you were considering modding the hell out of 5 you could make something that rivals 6. In contrast, it's hard to compare 6 to 4, because they're really such different games (5 was sort of a conceptual break in the series). If you don't mind the dated graphics then 4 is super solid, and I think you can get it on Steam for $20.
That sounds like a plus. The cost of using the infrastructure should be passed on to the end users.
Minimax is a general rule on how to optimally play 2 player games. It's about as much of a learning algorithm, and as practical, as "buy low, sell high".

In pure form, it can't be applied to any game where you cannot enumerate every last possible board position (so Chess and Go are out). And with heuristics, those heuristics effectively become the algorithm and they're really complex.
Ah, I think he mentioned that as one of the things Word can't mimic.
Yes, learning how banks create money for me was a huge turning point in realising most of what people think they know (and what I thought) about money, debt and economics is actually wrong. That the money supply grows when banks lend and contracts when people pay the debt down is a big point to get your head around.

The other big one is the national accounts and sectoral balances - see [1] for a much more detailed run-down.

To summarise, take the definition of GDP:

(1) GDP ≡ C + I + G + (X – M)

where C is household final consumption, I is private investment including inventory, G is Government spending, and (X-M) are net exports.

Add net external income flows (FNI) to (1) and you get GNP:

(2) GNP = C + I + G + (X – M) + FNI

Subtract total transfers and taxes from each side:

(3) GNP – T = C + I + G + (X – M) + FNI – T

Collect terms by sector (private, Government and External)

(4) (GNP – C – T) – I = (G – T) + (X – M + FNI)

Then we can simplify - (GNP - consumption - taxes) is equilivalent to private saving (we’ll call that S), and (X - M - FNI) is called the Current Account Balance (CAD):

(5) (S – I) – (G – T) – CAD = 0

or (6) (S – I) = (G – T) + CAD

What this means is that by definition, if your external sector is balanced, a Government budget surplus must reduce the net assets of the private sector by exactly the same amount as it is in surplus. With a trade deficit and a Government surplus, the private sector’s net assets are reduced by the sum of those.

This is quite clear graphically too [2].

So the end result is that you can only have economic growth when the Government is running a surplus and the private sector is in balance or deficit through money creation from banks. Is relies on people borrowing more and more money - but because equal amounts of debt are also created (no higher net wealth), eventually the sector in aggregate can’t borrow any more, and the system falls apart (the second derivative of credit growth dropped a little while before the GFC, which is how some non-mainstream economists predicted that it was coming).

But at the end of the day, this means a balanced or surplus Government budget is actually bad for the economy by definition unless you have a big trade surplus (like Germany for instance), because it’s sapping the private sector of wealth.

Do you have to start taking a more nuanced view of Government debt, when Government debt actually represents the net actual savings of the private sector!

1. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=32396

2. https://skeltonphd.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/slide1.jpg
I do not claim that that did not happen; rather, what I claim is that there is nothing uniquely Russian about saying "what right do you have to criticize us by a standard which you yourself do not uphold?"
The large population of undocumented immigrants begs to differ.
Ocaml has concurrency support for async io but no multi threading. There are experiments on concurrent ML dialects.
Teacher who drew computer on chalkboard stars at Microsoft’s Education Exchange
And homeless people who have lost IDs etc yet fail to promptly die and find ways to even get online.
Ownership in rust is determined from the type system using linear types.
The parser/lexer separation feels especially useless in a Lisp interpreter, where the parsing is trivial.
Clearly it’s enough to fool the people who want to be fooled, ie, the person you’re responding to.
Programming language for “special forces” of developers
Because even today there are sites that serve different content on https vs. http -- basically they reserve https for payment and the like.

Doing https first would mean those sites were broken.
Government is slow to reform itself because people wait for elections before making difficult or unpopular reforms if ever. Counting on government action in that context is unrealistic.

> a point where the local labor pool is not sufficient for these tasks

In case you have not noticed, we have already reached that point in Japan, several years ago. Many zones outside of cities are completely understaffed for elderly care. And government is doing what? Nothing.
Bob Carpenter did a great case study on the this topic, for anyone new to it: http://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/curse-di...

Check out the graphs, especially of the euclidean distance from the mode of a random point as dimensions increase.
I always found that a "memorization race" is table stakes. Without going through that first, there is no way you can participate meaningfully at the higher levels.

And this is true even in cases where most of the actual research is done by computers/algorithms. Being able to quickly identify impossibilities or how to solve parts of the problem, because you effectively memorized thousands of pages of maths theory is invaluable and irreplaceable.