skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, who is this Rachel, and why has her blog suddenly exploded on HN? Both old and new post have been filling the front page for about 2 weeks.
you’d be surprised. in the past at least there’s been far less oversight of real estate transactions than other types.
Valid point, you are correct. The part of your comment that caught my eye was

> being citizens of a democracy obligates us to pay attention

I agree with the statement itself, absolutely. I just don't think reading the news is necessarily the correct way to pay attention. If you read most news, hardly any of it encourages better citizenship. Much like Facebook, the news requires eyeballs to survive, it has an inherent agenda. To collect eyeballs it needs to have enticing headlines. I hardly think "look at me" is the same thing as "education for a good democracy".
Two months to advance the state of the art on a complex physics-based game with branching paths. Current approaches such as DQNs or god forbid DRL[1] barely reach the performance of my three year old cousin in atari game score maximization and are mostly non-transferable to new levels... Good luck.

[1] https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
:) Its kind of the point of the whole article, FYI.
Well said.

I just examined the changes to the Stripe dashboard, and, coupled with the email I received from Stripe and the web page about the new "Stripe Billing", I'm utterly confused about several things.

I suspect I'm going to have to unexpectedly spend some time updating my Stripe integration to the latest API, without much gain for my current business.

Stripe doesn't normally drop the ball but I feel like they did on this one.

BTW, Stripe team: the feature people here in the EU really want from you is help with calculating and tracking EU VAT. But you know that, right?
Synecdoche. Mail stands in for the general class of popular features.
Any homeless person who's not completely bonkers knows that harassing a lone child on public transit is just about the worst possible way of attracting the attention of law enforcement, since other adults might ignore harassment of other adults who seem to be dealing with the situation but will step in to protect a child. In all of my life living in large cities, I have never seen something like this happen, nor came across any news of something like that.

This seems to be in the same category as not letting a child walk alone to school, in a Western country, because of fear of Islamic terrorists -- possible, but so unlikely it is statistically improbable.
Hired.com seems like another option. I've gotten some pretty good remote only responses (even though I wasn't looking for remote).
JavaScript does have isNaN() function:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Because we need peer reviewed papers on our CVs!

I also detest simple things made complex, though. In my experience (with has covered electronics, epidemiology and geography) reviewers tend to pick up on obtuse issues in text but miss glaring errors in the math. It's sad, and you can see why someone less than scrupulous would exploit that tendency by over complicating things. That said I think plenty of authors are honest but just not very clear thinkers!
Ah, see, I don't know much about version solvers. :)

Would something like apt-get or yum be a better comparison, as they require only one version to be installed with a given name?
This could be a great tool for use on the battlefield. Reminds me of the subvocal mics from the Shadowrun RPG, which was really a key piece of equipment to buy for any character working in a group.
This is one of the main reasons to require source release. Open source software is much more likely to run in 10 years. It’s actually useful to package everything together into a container or VM so all the packages are there too.

I work with some genome guys and they have this problem as their sequencers basically turn over in a year or two the advances are so fast. So they have to maintain the specimen as well as all the software versions they used for analysis. It’s a pain, but otherwise nothing is reproducible.
>The reviewers comments were about my coding style, my choice of build tool (I didn't use make, but something else which is just as easy to use), the choice of C vs C++...

I don't know precisely what field you submitted in, but this is maliciously bad reviewing practice. You should have submitted a rebuttal and written to the editor calling the relevance of such "reviews" into question.
It's easy to trust the user and the wider community when your typical user is "another student in UCLA" and the worst they can steal from you is yesterday's experiment log.

Put another way, it's easy to trust a user if you and they both know that they can be tracked down and face disciplinary action if their behavior was deemed unacceptable.
Patch should have the ability to determine what should be patched and where, then hand off the job of doing that to any other UNIX tool.
> we feel like as Europeans we're constantly an afterthought

Agreed.

Ahem, Stripe team. May I have your attention?

Could you please, please, please do something about helping your customers with calculating, charging, and tracking VAT to EU countries? It is currently a glaring omission from your services.
Nothing much. The Sun is most of the mass in the Solar system, by over 97%. Most of the rest of that mass is Jupiter, followed at quite a distance by Saturn. Jupiter has more than 5700 times the mass of Mercury. In other words, next to the Sun, Mercury is a teeny little speck that would barely even leave a “splash” as it roasted to a cinder in its corona. It would be the most underwhelming event you can imagine, for Sol. For Mercury it would be an exciting journey of vaporizing outer layers, being torn to little shreds, and those shreds vaporizing completely (all before it contacted anything like a “surface”).
This is a really interesting article. The use of jupyter as a publication mechanism is a really neat idea! I think this path will be fruitful, and I am all for it. I do think however that some low-hanging fruit should be addressed in parallel - stuff that makes looking through the existing work a total pain:

* Date of publication and dates of research should be required in every paper. It's really difficult to trace out the research path if you start from google or random papers you find in various archive searches. Yes that info can be present but often its in metadata where the PDF is linked rather than the PDF itself. Even worse is the "pubname, vol, issue" info rather than a year that you get... now I have to track down when the publication started publishing, how they mark off volumes and so on. I just want to know when the thing was published.

* Software versions used - if you are telling me about kernel modules or plugins/interfaces to existing software, I need to know the version to make my stuff work. Again - eventually it can be tracked down, but running a 'git bisect' on some source tree to find out when the code listings will compile is not OK.

* actual permalinks to data, code, and other supplimental information. Some 3rd party escrow service is not a terrible idea even. I hate trying to track down something from a paper only to find the link is dead and the info is no longer available or has moved a several hour google journey away.
Thank you, that makes sense. I haven't seen any Mac Pros or iMac Pros yet, so I guess I haven't been exposed to that end of the segment yet.
This is a truly sad day for the individual... and +1 for Mega corporations.

Years ago when Polyvore launched - they TRULY innovated and brought REAL power to the single user. Enabling them automagically to BECOME a creator/designer/curator.

This technological leap fwd, generated a wellspring of creativity for those millions of users struggling to communicate their unique sense of style and design-sensibilities.

Fast fwd, we now see the typical cycle of indie-platform being absorbed by MEGA Corp ( YAHOO ) -- but promising only BETTER evolution :

Going forward, Polyvore will still be the same Polyvore that you love, but we’ll have more resources to make it even bigger & better. Our mission of empowering people to feel good about their style will stay the same. We’ll continue to add cool new product features and roll out new perks for top members. We’ve accomplished a lot on our own, but together with Yahoo we can take Polyvore to its fullest potential. [1]

then tossed over once again to another buyer..and laid dead to rest in the interwebs..

What does this 'evolution' yield one may ask in all due earnest??
How about the EXACT anti-thesis of why Polyvore started in the first place: Mass Produced. Mass Consumption. Mass FEED of Mass Produced Clothes.

yay.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/yahoo-acquires-polyvore/
> It’s that small subset of lethal mistakes you avoid by not letting your computer drive that makes all the difference.

The small subset of lethal mistakes you avoid by not letting yourself drive matter too...

Here's what I think is really going on. There's a transition from "not good enough to trust with a human life" to "approximately as likely as a human to make a fatal mistake, even if in different ways" to "clearly less likely to cause a fatal accident than even a good human driver". But there's also a huge pot of money for whoever wins this market. So at least some players are pretending that they're further along the transition to "better than human", hoping that the market believes them.

A second point: when we're in the state of "approximately as likely as a human to make a fatal mistake, even if in different ways", the humans look at the ways that the computer makes, and think: "That's a really stupid mistake to make. How could it be so dumb?" But just because the mistakes aren't ones that a human would make very often, that doesn't mean that the computer isn't on par with humans in terms of overall death rate. But the computer still looks bad on the mistakes it makes.
> who was executed in 1858 by being blown from the mouth of a cannon

Wow.
It appears this is repeating trope- these inventors of highly effective killing machines did not consider that the increased rate of killing would be matched by an increase in mobilizing cannon-fodder.

Some genius in the near-future will probably make the same inaccurate prediction about autonomous killerbots, or more likely realistically, cyber-warfare (I hate that term): "Shutting down hospitals, power plants and other critical infrastructure will make wars shorter"
> I assume you don't just means using Github for version control of scientific papers, because that sounds pretty pointless to me.

Why? I recently wrote a paper on GitHub. I loved it.
I may still be confused, because without the term Jewish people, it would seem that many adherents to the Jewish faith which are not ethnically Jewish would not be considered Jews?

I would argue that there are also many atheist Catholics (e.g. in Italy) who would disagree that they were not also part of an ethnorelegious group.
We have been using Stripe for 3 years. Every time we need a new feature, Stripe comes up with it when we need it.

We were literally looking for a Billing solution that works with Stripe YESTERDAY. T

This is phenomenal timing for us. Thanks Stripe!
I'm not sure if I'm reading your comment correctly but i don't think Perl was ever intended to fit the UNIX philosophy. What with TIMTOWTDY being a central tenet.
The "decent standard lib" part is debatable, especially if you don't slip on the "targeting multiple platforms with ease" part.
Well, you don't. But I wouldn't have a problem with my partner using my card, in which case I just give them my pin? On the other hand, that is(or should be) literally impossible with signature.
>Root access should be protected, and any bugs that break this barrier without the user's credentials should be fixed/prevented.

>The root user should have absolute power to do anything. This is the basic ethos of Linux.

They're just splitting 'root' into two parts. No power has been taken away.
In machine learning / computer vision people often release their code after the paper is already accepted.

Time before the submission deadline is usually used to do more experiments and write text, not to polish the code. And after the deadline there is no hurry. What people (who want to share code) consider important is to release it till a bit before the actual conference (but this doesn't transfer to journal-based fields).
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Review and Performance Comparison
I can't wait to look more into this. We currently use gitlab ci with fastlane to build our apps but I'm interested in seeing how this stacks up.
Knowing "why" doesn't make it feel any better. If anything, it makes it worse, knowing both that all the paranoia is justified and that our systems are not really yet anywhere near something you could comfortably call "secure".
Hi sorry about the confusion - basically it means you can work either on site at Redmond or Remote. But preference is for Redmond (all else being equal...)
> without the pin you can 'skim' chip cards just as easily as you can magnetic cards.

Uh... no? Not sure what you're saying. The PIN authenticates the human user, so without the PIN you can use steal a card. "Skimming" is a MitM attack, something expressely designed against in the chip design.
The main kubernetes docs have a good section on this as well.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/securing...
Go read larousse gastronomique sometime. Anything from the "meat" section is just hilarious. Phrases like "prepare the shank in the usual way" and "get a measure of beef" occur WAY too often.
Mine had weird after taste - did not like it, but will try it again this week in a different place.

Perhaps my expectations were too high.
Does it Fart review: which animals fart, which don’t, and why
This is why artifact reviews should be separated from publication review. Artifact reviews are notoriously horrible, with reviewers inexperienced in it simply bike shedding and picking at straws. At best, artifact reviews should simply be checking for reproducibility (i.e. can they get the code to run at all).
Doesn't email have a lot of problems with residential IPs? Either they're blacklisted out the wazoo or the provider blocks SMTP? It's not just about having "decent Internet".
For instance, the effect was that Goldman lost money, while some other guys made money - what's the harm here ?

Moreover, the trade being busted, the guy that initially made the money, probably found himself in a very uncomfortable position, since chances are he already covered his risk and hedged the lucky trades. So overall, he lost money just because Goldman was able to force the rules in their favor.

Unfortunately, markets are rigged, just as most things -> the bigger you are, the more influence on the rules and how they are applied you have.
Precisely correct. The legal model is a contract and you can't sign one of those with just a (short) pin.
Usually this involves a set of corporate shells with opaque ownership; there may not even be a registered transfer of the property, just in shares of Mystery Holdings Corp #237 (British Virgin Islands).
Why do this bring to mind how casinos treat big name gamblers...
Does Apple take 30% on the web?
Frankly, the same thing happens to a slightly lesser degree with stock and bond markets. Cryptocurrency is more extreme in this regard because most cryptocurrency "investment" is still essentially speculation on the concept of cryptocurrency in general.

Another poster mentioned diversifying your portfolio. There are at least two dimensions to diversification.

One is diversifying among types of assets. That is, stocks vs bonds vs money market vs real estate vs crypto, etc.

Another is diversification with an asset type, which is what an index helps with. You could have a portfolio with a healthy mix of stocks vs bonds vs other assets. But if all the stock holdings were in IBM, that's not actually a diverse portfolio.

So: if you're investing in crypto as part of an otherwise healthily balanced portfolio, a crypto index fund is a good idea. But that doesn't replace having other investments spread across stocks and bonds et al.

Now, take a look at how stock or bond index funds work. Each one has different strategies for balancing how much of which individual securities (individual stocks/bonds) it includes.

Those strategies are mostly intended to protect you from volatility in one stock or bond that doesn't match the market. That is, to make sure that your portfolio goes up in a bull market regardless of whether Enron just crashed, because on average stocks are rising.

However, every index fund moves with the market. When there's a bull stock market, stock index funds will go up and bonds will go down. In a bear market, stock funds will go down and bond funds will go up. The performance of assets in the same class is always correlated.

An index fund will never protect you against the volatility of the market as a whole. It only protects you against the volatility of an individual asset.

I'm sure books have already been written about the tradeoffs between various portfolio weighting strategies within a single asset class. Maybe that would be a good place to start.
Because TV advertising is in the crapper, but the physical TV and the behaviors that surround it (group watching, longer average viewing events than mobile, etc.) are still very attractive to advertisers. Could this be a way in?
It seems kind of strange to me that govt actors complain about money laundering while using their monopoly of force to protect the property rights of people (at least human people, not corporate “people”) who won’t even admit ownership. It seems like if representatives were earnest about addressing this sort of money laundering they might propose some way to stop doing that for owners of massive property holdings who won’t show themselves. In my home state, the real names and contact info for owners of small houses and residential lots are available from the tax assessors database online. That we have reporting requirements for $10,000 in cash deposits, but apparently not for office buildings and yachts seems to suggest that the wealthy are practically subject to a different system of law then the rest of us.

Has it been proposed that owners of this sort of property publicly report real ownership? There are cases where we have managed to create all sorts of de-anonomizing reporting requirements for the non-billionaires (e.g. for cash deposits). There are limitations on property rights for absentee owners (even non-anonymous ones) as with squatter’s rights.

Is it so illiberal to decline to enforce property rights for anonymous shell corporations that countries that don’t do it will be ostracized? Is it so hard to require that the real name of owners be published on a title, or just politically impossible?
Computerphile video on Chip+PIN fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks0SOn8hjG8
Living ethically is very expensive, as you often have to turn down generous but unethical offers.

I am not surprised about MIT's behaviour by the way. As long as top-level education stays private and has to hunt for funding, things like this will always happen.
Prime factoring of license plate numbers before the car exits or otherwise gets out of view. Good way to exercise brain... and get in a wreck. (You'll grow to hate those occasional plates from states with 5 digit numbers.)
Remote job #3 so far for me, and networking in various ways greased the wheels for it significantly.

1) went to a local tech meetup, spoke a few times and attended regularly. The organizer for the meetup worked remotely for the company, they referred me in.

2) I wound up on a slack group for people using my particular tech stack. Had a crummy day on the job and asked in their hiring channel if anyone was hiring remote. Someone reached out to me and took my resume, and it led to an offer in fairly short order.

This job encouraged conference/meetup attendance and speaking. I spoke at a couple conferences as well at a meetup or two in my company's HQ. Which led me to:

3) Sent my resume to people I knew at the company, whom I'd met from meetups and conferences, as well as interacted with on that Slack. The interview was, as a result, super chill. The vibe really was "from a technical perspective you're a known quantity to us, we want the rest of the team to talk to you and make sure you're not a jerk."
Agreed. Every mundane bug or misfeature doesn't need its own website or 20-page analysis. Fix things and move on to the next thing that needs fixing. There is an endless supply of broken things.
As I recently inherited a huge, well-tagged music collection (tens of terabytes of files) I am very interested in this. Is there something like it, also supporting .cue files and also storing the original filenames and structure? A mediaplayer agnostic way to access this treasure trove would be the best.
So come up with command line switches to restrict behavior when necessary.

>the power means the tool ends up doing a lot of other things ... not so well.

What I find myself wanting over and over is to do things with software that the developers didn't intend. Maybe using a hammer to mash potatoes is a bad idea, but I don't want the hammer company to make it impossible. Not because I want to shoot myself in the foot, but because preventing me from shooting myself in the foot prevents me from doing a lot of other good things.
Me and my girlfriend we tried at last week. We really enjoyed the taste. Burgers, of course, come in a variety and also taste quite different depending on what kind of burger you eat. My girlfriend observed that the Impossible Foods one tasted a lot like homemade burgers as they're made for BBQ.
Certainly.

Right now I program Rails on an old 2012 MBPr. I want to get a faster machine. Possibilities:

1) Spend 5k on a iMac Pro. That's an absurd amount of money.

2) Get a new MBP limited by USB C, new keyboard, and the abominable Touchbar. That's a lot of money for a downgrade.

3) Get a decent specced iMac or Mac Mini. Most viable option.

4) Ditch Rails, start learning .NET, so I can go Windows 100% to build my own PC. I save money. I lose a lot of time.

5) Build PC, install Linux. Viable but might be a configuration nightmare. I just want to work.

6) Run Linux under Windows host as a VM. Second most viable option.

I'm pretty frustrated. Suggestions?
Thx! Nice.

Maybe json-api on a websocket on the same port as a transport would also be possible? Protobuf seems a bit overkill for something that is that tightly integrated together IMO. But if it works, it works.
We're at a hardware disadvantage, but with some practice human beings can also detect light polarization with the naked eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush
You spelled "goals" wrong on your "about" page. It's not "gloals".
I've found that in general you're either looking at a 30% paycut from "mid-level" companies in large cities (IE a 150k salary no stock/RSUs locally would be around $110k remote, with lots of "offers" of lower than that and a tiny amount of equity), AND you have probably 200% more competition. Its pretty competitive unless you're pretty specialized on a domain or new technology.
Make mobile Application like a powerpoint
I think its far far more complicated than that. Partition was/is a disaster, so was bangladesh.

However when the mutiny broke out, a huge wave of violence was unleashed, first against the british, then anyone who was seen to be helping the british, then the nextdoor Raj. Finally in reverse by the british.
Deploying to Kubernetes Part 1: Introduction and creating cloud resources
Another positive step in the demise of the traditional banking system.
Indeed. In some ways what the UK is exporting is rule-of-law, a functioning courts system and a government that for good or ill is extremely reluctant to interfere with real estate ownership, even if it's been bought with suspect money.

The existence of a safe offshore cash stash is a benefit to some autocrats and a risk to others - it allows their underlings to escape.