skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks and feels like Instagram. Is it decentralized running on Ethereum?
You should always be aware when driving of where your "exits" are. This is not hard to do. Especially at 38 MPH, you can be extremely confident there are no bikes to your left if you have not passed any in the past couple seconds. And, lanes are generally large enough in the US that you can swerve partway into one even if there are cars there.
>But he doesn't elaborate on it further, and neither does anyone else from what I can tell, and I have yet to figure out the trick

5 * 9 = 5 * (10 - 1) = 50 - 5 = 45

Specifically, you need to know everything in the 5x5 area, and how to multiply by 10.

More generally, any digit 6-9 can be rewritten as (10 - (10 - digit)) and then you can apply distribution rules to clean things up. Here's a three by two digit example:

247 * 68 =

(10 - 3) * (10 - 2) + // 7 * 8
10 * (10 - 3) * (10 - 4) + // 7 * 60
10 * 4 * (10 - 2) + // 40 * 8
10 * 10 * 4 * (10 - 4) + // 40 * 60
10 * 10 * 2 * (10 - 2) + // 200 * 8
10 * 10 * 10 * 2 * (10 - 4) // 200 * 60

evaluating we get

100 - 50 + 6 +
10 * (100 - 70 + 12) +
10 * (40 - 8) +
100 * (40 - 16) +
100 * (20 - 4) +
1000 * (20 - 8)

And then to finish up:

00056 +
00420 +
00320 +
02400 +
01600 +
12000 =

16796, which is the correct answer.

Edit:

The fun thing to think about is conceptually why this works. If you consider numbers as just bits, all you're doing is converting the highest bit from base to sign, without actually changing it, doing the multiplications on the lower bits, and then tracking the sign to know whether or not to add or subtract later.

Or to put it another way, you're shifting your set of numbers from being +0 - +10 to being -5 - +5. This makes the lookup table smaller, but requires you to do some additional intermediate lookups (up to four, one in each "quadrant" of the 10x10 table) to be as powerful.

Fun to conceptualize that way.
That's not really a great solution, because it doesn't really work all that well. Toxic people are toxic and they work to find ways to actively subvert the mitigations against their toxic behavior.

It puts the onus on the people just trying to have fun to carefully manage and curate their experience just so they can have a good time.

These companies care and take these measures because as a player, if I open Overwatch and my first match of the day is full of assholes actively trying to ruin my experience instead of just playing the game, I'm just going to log off and not play anymore.
While good in principle, we are human beings after all. There are many dimensions on which we judge each other, many of which aren't fair and/or accurate indicator of our true skills or abilities. We've managed to legislate against some of the more egregious dimensions, like age, race, national origin etc. but there will always be other dimensions.

One of the important once is appearances, demeanor, posture etc. While those of us who know about these things take care not to place too much emphasis on these things, they're still used by most people, mostly subconsciously, in making hiring decisions.
Heads up buddy. I just logged in because I wanted to thank you for your opinion. You're 100% spot on. Don't get discouraged by the downvotes.
> That's a senseless digression though.

In terms of your agenda, it might make no sense. It just irks me when I see simplistic assumptions about human information processing that don't take the "situatedness" of the processor into account.

I have no views, and did not attempt to comment, on machine information processing in this instance. I just wanted to point out that you can't simply go from the instructor's actually missing the inference as a passenger to the conclusion that they would have missed it as a driver. Thats it :)
It's security theater.
How scalable is RenTec? Can they go up to 100B in AUM? 200B?
Let me make sure I understand your position correctly. You want to punish players who, for whatever reason, play worse than their rank/score/position would imply they should play?

This sounds absolutely ridiculous to me. There can be dozens of reasons for a player "underperforming". Take whatever punishment the game gives for conceding and leave the game if you are stuck with a bad team of randoms. Or, better yet, make friends or join a clan of like-minded players.

Even if someone is being rude in chat/voice chat - mute them and move on. It's weird to me to see you and other posters in this thread look to a higher authority to solve such a trivial problem instead of doing this yourself.
Not so sure. Remember when the Newsfeed came out? The NYT similarly thought people really did not like it. Facebook certainly didn't get rid of it and we certainly stopped caring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/fashion/10FACE.html
Every single public company is well versed in accounting shenanigans, often to the tune that you almost can't figure out anymore whether someone is making a profit or not.

Also, an accounting loss isn't always a "real" loss. For example, with the recent tax overhaul, some companies booked unexpected losses because they had significant carry forward losses. Those were reduced in value because the corporate tax rate went down. But essentially nothing changed -- yes the tax base and book value of these losses were adjusted, but no cash was lost.

They can also push revenue or profits back or pull it forward. It really is a jungle out there.
I can't take this genre of tech/opticon commentary seriously when they remove all human agency. Reading this argument, there's an implicit judgement that (1) humans have no choice but to be influenced by Facebook, and (2) other methods of information retrieval are somehow neutral. Sure, I agree that understanding power structures is important – what a novel and interesting point /s.
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This really is the best way of explaining where continued fractions come from. The fact that convergents of the continued fraction provide the best rational approximation always seemed mysterious to me in the classical exposition, but it is almost obvious when explained through the Stern-Brocot tree.
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If there were less political intervention into financial markets then solid financial analysis would win almost every time. Maybe that's the way the world should be.

Since the GFC a lot of macro bets in both US and EU have been bets on political will and central bank actions. In late 2010 Bank of America was technically insolvent (based on analysis similar to yours), but the Fed went to work and backstopped the market in a multitude of ways and the valuation soared. In 2012 I would have bet the farm that Greece was headed into bankruptcy, but the Greek people didn't revolt (as much as anticipated) and so the ECB effectively nationalized most Greek debt across the rest of the Eurozone. I'm no expert but I try to apply these lessons to all new modern crisis I hear about. Underfunded pensions will destroy certain states, or social security will be broke and unable to pay out benefits? Sure; we'll see.
Some very dead ones. Unary works like hash marks. We have archaeological records of that number system but GP is wrong. Doing multiplication in your head with unary would be a horrible experience. And any number over ten would put the listener to sleep.

I suspect in a unary language system people would invent their own counting strategy in their head.

Edit: ah but Wikipedia reminds me that gauge systems such as for grinding or wire use unary for negative numbers. Eg 000 guage wire or OO ground flour.
Cool, we can share!

My mother got kicked out of her house because she had the nerve to 1) get pregnant at 17 and 2) want to keep the baby (me!). Single mothers don't usually go on to make a fortune and she's no exception, but I turned out alright.
Calling himself "lower middle class" is a joke. How many middle class send their kids to a private school?
I would say that most Brits I meet are good. But there is a certain kind, usually an Englishman, who is pure selfish evil. I’ve lived in a few countries where SCL/CA has been active, and its destabilizing propaganda resulted in death and turmoil. I think there are three drivers at play in the formation of these, “the worst kind of Englishmen”:

1. Boarding school syndrome, covered in this article for its role in Brexit. It renders its victims as lacking empathy. https://www.google.com.mx/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/educatio...

2. A sort of Affluenza which has infected the British upper and upper middle classes. As the UK has become more and more expensive, the upper middle class lifestyle, involving private schools, a flat in London and a house in the country, have become out of reach, and it has induced a sort of elite desperation.
3. An English ‘exceptionalism’. Many Brits are somewhat parochial, and although they know very little of the outside world, seen through the eyes of empire in a very simplistic way (which many elites do), you can get this type of behavior taking place.
Suppose you have:

A current price aka price at last trade of 10$ and nobody willing to sell for less than 10$ and nobody willing to buy for more than 9.99$.

A new seller shows up, if they are willing to wait they might get more than 9.99$ or they can accept 9.99$.

Or a new buyer shows up they can buy for 10$ or wait for a lower price.

Now, without effort people can just look at the history of trades and see the price rise or fall. This is independent of whatever reason that causes more people to suddenly want to buy or sell, just the fact that people are buying or selling in it's self moves the price.
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In the instances which are the subject of this article, I am sure you're correct. My point is that in-game behavior can be decoupled from behavior in the real world. I've seen in-game bigotry between factions in MMO's, and while I'm sure many of these people are also prone to such behavior in real life, others are role-playing; and although the behavior may be considered toxic, it may seem "fake" to the participants (and some politicians have argued in the past that "fake" murders in video games are also toxic).
Back then people at least got some good severance and a pension. The current generation will be forced out with nothing if they haven't saved up a huge amount of money.
Taxes in California are very comparable to taxes in Canada, and like the US it does depend on the province one lives in.
I think it's credible to be concerned about a government that is funded entirely based on fossil fuels, given the likelihood of electric vehicles and renewables / alternatives playing an increasing role in transportation and energy in the future.

Medium term, this is probably not an issue, IMHO. But the outlook could be grim if "peak oil" actually happens due to lack of demand, and no reform has happened. The Economist pointed out (https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21738583-tradi...) that this already has happened in Venezuela (a very different situation than Wyoming in terms of government contract, of course, but one that shows the dangers of overreliance.)
I would agree that Facebook is more dangerous as its interaction with the user is more engrossing and totalizing, but I definitely disagree that Google is not dangerous. Google can do the same things as Facebook but with different vectors.
Who would have guessed being a drug dealer makes good money.
That's the way it should be. Unsure why it's different in North America. I think it's because the agency faces severe consequences from a false negative, so they err on the side of false positives.

It is also very hard to get the bureaucracy to drop a case once it has been brought to their attention.
Media is meant to be consumed the way people consume it.
A philosophical tangent: Evolution did not always produce the best outcomes. Would neuroevolution be vulnerable to similar effects? Probably a good research area. https://www.wired.com/2009/07/st-best-5/
> By the way, Tex-Mex is the quintessential melting pot cuisine

Not really; it's not any more of a melting pot than south-of-the-border Mexican cuisine is, or than California cuisine is (among many others.) It's just a melting pot with different sources and biases.
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You say that as if it's over. I'm willing to bet a significant amount of money that it will pose a systemic risk in a few years.
Using words that don't mean what you think they mean is a bad argument.

Sorry, well-regulated means well trained and in good working order.

Militia - is you and I, and anyone else of able body that can fight for defense of self and country.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. - that's the part you apparently didn't read. Of all the bill of rights, they all apply to people directly - except of course 2A where you say "people" is collective inexplicably.

Hey, I'm not arguing. Keep using arguments that very old, very tired, well defeated by logic and precedent. It makes my job as someone who cares about civil rights easier.
Email, text, phone call, all better messaging services than Facebook.
You mentioned these firms are typically smaller in headcount, use private capital, and generate similar returns. Any insight on how they're targeting asset capacity for their meta-strategy approach? The medallion fund, until recently was capped around 3-4 billion [1]. I wonder, if the quality and quantity of data itself, and the models built on that data, are subordinate to the data processing IP as you say, can this type of trading be done at smaller scale, either as an individual or handful of people? I've been out of the industry for a bit, but infrastructure and data costs were the main (financial) hurdles for startups, particularly in the high frequency space.

Are there any firms outside of finance using an analogous approach to data processing and signal construction?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-16/renaissan...
That's exactly the value I was alluding to. Is paying these folks, say, 20% more than someone in their 30's really a boat anchor, or is it an asset?
Also mentioned on replies to that tweet was that maybe google.com doesn't have newsfeed functionality like facebook. But youtube does. And the personalization of search results based on your profile can also have similar effects.
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I take it with a grain of salt when VCs find reasons to no-true-Scotsman failures like this. It's true that Theranos didn't follow the traditional path. But I think it's also true that Silicon Valley energetically built up the myths that made Theranos possible, from the grand scale (Technology is a fountain of miracles! Hard questioning of visionary founders is crass!) down to the small details (like Holmes's Jobsian outfits).

Brushing this off as "East Coast" lets us avoid examining our complicity. And our vulnerability. We could look at uBeam, for example, which is backed by a number of West Coast luminaries, including Evans's own A16Z. An engineer has an extensive set of posts on how dubious it is: https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/

Theranos is different in terms of scale and visibility, for sure. And I do agree that they found a richer class of sucker elsewhere. But I don't think they're culturally any different than a bunch of other overfunded, never-could-have-worked, charismatic-founder failures around here.
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But Google can in many cases, _control_ a large part of the web, not just track it, due to its vastly superior external interaction surface.
Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences

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Found in

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III. Notes et articles extraits des comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences. (Suite.)

105. Calculs numériques. sur les moyens d'éviter les erreurs dans les calculs numériques.

https://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/5702727
These are excellent points. I come from a different cultural background than the US (from Brazil), so in principle I wouldn't be opposed to implementing roughly the same criteria currently applied to obtaining a driver's license to obtaining and carrying a gun.

Here, however, guns have been severely restricted for several years, to the point where I believe it has been counter productive. We did see a decrease in accidental gun deaths, but violent crime and murder rates have increased significantly. Unfortunately, from my observation, the potential threat of deadly force is still a necessary deterrent sometimes.
This law is not good for the internet. This isn't about Google and Facebook, it's about the open internet as we know it.

And, it's high time we recognize these services to be "infrastructure". You don't persecute the street owner for vehicles that drive on it - if you could, the state would be liable for all crimes involving a vehicle
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Not quite a typical piece - it managed to make it to #2 on HN.
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976784465245515776

>Essentially nothing about the threat described applies to Google. Nor Amazon. Nor Apple.

>It could apply to Twitter, in principle, but in practice it almost entirely doesn't.

I don't believe this for one second. Google does the exact same "algorithmic curation" with its search results. Different people get different results based on internal profiles that Google has built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble. Over time that shift in search result content acts upon people in exactly the same way as the Facebook example he describes.
I re-read their post and don't see how you understood their post that way.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
This has been discussed before; "better" != "only".

If the target is to have a contact, an email or a phone number are sufficient.

Also, it's fallacious to think that emails/phones are subject to change, while a Facebook account isn't - some people close it. Especially emails nowadays are used for a lot of services, so people stick with them for a long time, more than the past.
Thank you very much for the link!
Facebook seems more upfront about what they collect (everything) and why (because it's valuable).

Google persists in trying to justify its thirst for your data (we need it for maps traffic reports / google now suggestions / allo suggestions / to improve your maps experience / etc etc.)

The one point where Google wins out over Facebook (apparently) is that they're big enough to not need to expose your data to others. (Honestly I'd assumed Facebook was already at the point where they realised that the data they hold is worth more than a third party is likely to pay for it, which is the only reason the CA reveal was surprising to me...)
Yes, that's mostly correct. But I'm not sure what your question is. It's not enough to have the data, you also have to have reasonable confidence in how the price will change once the information does impact the market. There's practically an eternity of information available, but you can't use all of it. You have to pick and choose. Moreover, you have to choose how much to weight any particular set of data with respect to another.

This is not to say that most hedge funds are right to ignore any given set of meaningful data. It just means that they have to make decisions about which data to use and how much they'll prioritize it. Then they have to see if they have the requisite infrastructure to trade on that information before anyone else.
lol @ the ico, why would a centralized company require a blockchain?
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It seems this feature is only available in the Premium plan, if you're hosting your own instance.

It's free if you're using GitLab.com with a public GitHub repository.

https://about.gitlab.com/features/github/ -- "Large Enterprises"
I wouldn't recommend taking up a Twitter habit - it's more addictive than Facebook (because of the wider/deeper talent pool).

However, what ads are you referring to on Twitter? Promoted tweets (DuckDuckGo's comes to mind)? Because apart from that, I don't recall seeing any when using uBlock Origin.

I also can't really recall many intrusive ads when using the official Android app - perhaps I'm already so far in that I don't see them anymore.

To be honest, I wouldn't be upset if all social media and news websites were to become paywalled tomorrow. Perhaps I would then get back into books again (even free ones from the local library).
When Microsoft did the test layoffs in 2014, I believe they included one month of salary per year of service.
>I hope they don't lose their way and try to overextend their influence by silencing non-"progressive" behavior or "wrongthink"

Blizzard already do.
Can't wait for the citation from an actual study (try the CDC, they've put out at least 3 since 2013)!

You should be able to easily show that rural USA with it's murder rate on part with Europe is definitely not the place where all our guns are... oh wait...
I'm actually most excited by the transparency. If we get low-cost transparent displays, it will finally make
finally make Ishii's clearboard an affordable possibility for remote collaboration.

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/clearboard/
Presumably Zuckerberg did not consent to this conversation being captured/recorded and shared.

Do you feel even the slightest bit of embarrassment at the irony and hypocrisy of using this content, that you acquired without consent, to further your argument against the trustworthiness of this guy?
The problem is plenty of people wont mute, and toxicity is majorly contagious, so you get reverberations from the inital toxic incident going on pretty much ad infinitum.
I mean, it offers the same thing.
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Arguably he gets more for his taxes in Canada than he does in the US.