skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all money managers can produce in total is the negative effect of their fees on their clients money

This assumes that the same stocks are issued and purchased regardless of the efforts/nonexistence of money managers. Do you think it's possible that scams might be more numerous or more successful if there were nobody at all trying to determine the worth of individual stocks?

If you do think that's possible, then money managers can collectively produce positive value.
I...sorta get it. But seriously, if this is what you want, get a $50 feature phone and don't even bother with data fees.
What risks are incurred by storing zero customer data?
Bravo, @steam_games!
Anyone know what she was reporting on that caused the Justice Department to censor the coverage?
Even The Intercept got it their disclosure wrong once, and these guys are probably the experts: https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...

But unencrypted email certainly isn't the right way to go if you're leaking.
I'd say that the people who get paid based on the bottom line have that goal. Not their employees, they want to be paid well themselves, and work with people they like, and probably a hundred other things before they worry about the bottom line.
> I am sympathetic to this position, but IMO the right way to go about that is to build a great public transportation system (which incidentally would reduce ride share surge pricing through reduced demand).

I agree. Why can't the local government provide a transportation app that includes ride sharing as a component of that transportation system?
Show HN: Bored Chat – one-on-one chat app where all chats are public
Bored Chat's a one-on-one chat app where you meet people...where all chats are public. The idea is that you can suss someone out before you chat to them. I.e. see if they're interesting or boring or a creep etc. You can tell a lot about someone's behaviour by seeing how they interact with others.

Currently I have a small little community happening.

iOS only at this stage: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bored-chat-chat-with-strange...

Keen to hear feedback and suggestions :).
No, what they're saying is that conflicts of interest are so common and mundane that they don't have much signal on their own.
Yes. Erlang has http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_statem.html

It is part of the Erlang's standard library. SSH and SSL state and connection management has been re-written recently to use this built-in module.

Here is a video of Raimo Niskanen, the author, describing the module:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jl6MR3kXQ

The title is "The tool that you never knew that you always wanted", which was borrowed from another member of the community (Jesper L. Andersen)
Sounds like others are paying a fairly high price in that case but just more indirectly
Yeah, but those are good questions he's asking. What are we doing with them? If it weren't for Lieberman, maybe we'd have been forced to figure that out.
Your asserted number (1,100 GtC) seems to be a wild exaggeration: "In the period 1751 to 1900, about 12 GtC were released as CO2 to the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels, whereas from 1901 to 2013 the figure was about 380 GtC." [1]

"From 1870 to 2014, cumulative carbon emissions totaled about 545 GtC. Emissions were partitioned among the atmosphere (approx. 230 GtC or 42%), ocean (approx. 155 GtC or 28%) and the land (approx. 160 GtC or 29%)." [2] (And 230 GtC is 843 GtCO2, so that doesn't match either.)

Your asserted number appears closer to an estimate of total GtC in the atmosphere, not merely the modern addition via human CO2 emissions. Where did that 1,100 number come from?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

[2] https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions
Do you think Grand Theft Auto is a murder simulator?

How about Assasin’s Creed?
here’s the problem with saying things like “use proton mail” it deflects from the problem (warrantless search of email for 7 years) and instead attacks the use of email.

Note that what was used shouldn’t matter from the POV warrant vs no warrant. Follow on with: there is no claim that there was anything found in those emails. All we have is an acknowledgement that the government is undertaking warrantless surveillance of a reporter,. It doesn’t have to find anything, it just needs to be threatening enough to ensure that no one talks again.

Hence “chilling effect on journalism”
> "Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracy," Ms. Murphy said. "This decision by the Justice Department will endanger reporters’ ability to promise confidentiality to their sources and, ultimately, undermine the ability of a free press to shine a much-needed light on government actions. That should be a grave concern to anyone who cares about an informed citizenry."

Sure. But Ms. Watkins could have used better OPSEC, and trained her sources to do the same.

Edit: You can't "promise confidentiality" if you're depending entirely on the behavior of third parties.
I think it is really cool how much of the CoreRT is written in C#. Garbage collection and stack frame walking are implemented, but most everything else is C#, including exception dispatch:

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/src/Runtime.Bas...

and type-casting:

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/src/Runtime.Bas...
Apologies for terrible editing in the above message. Typing on my phone with beta software. There are some issues :)
Wow. Is this seriously how far conversation on this site has descended?
The Times provides the information necessary to do just this right on their tips page, including instructions for PGP, WhatsApp, Signal, and SecureDrop.

One would hope that serious whistleblowers would heed these instructions.
And government officers could not blatantly violate their oaths to defend the Constitution.
No: it’s worse than that. This is the last committee vote before a plenary, and the main parties and the member states have decided to support it.

The only way this is stopped from becoming law is if you contact your MEP now.

https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-fi...
Lost John Coltrane Recording from 1963 Will Be Released at Last
Rust is designed that way, to be fair. They expressly did not want to be batteries included like python is. The reasons are what they are and not particularly relevant to the conversation, but pulling in well designed third party crates is the point.
"We economists may not know much, but we know one thing very well, and that's how to create shortages and surpluses. Just tell us which you want! If you want a shortage, all we have to do is to set a price that's below the market price and I'll guarantee you a shortage. If you want a surplus, set a price too high and you'll have your surplus." -- Milton Friedman
"If some one decides to be a SRE at Google than be a programmer at TCS, I'd say that person's other skills are even irrelevant at this point. You have just committed career suicide."

With such a narrow and demeaning view I doubt anything can change your mind. But I have many colleagues who have switched roles between SREs and full time development many times in career. They are some of the most competent developers at my workplace. They have seen so many systems crash and burn at high loads that they instinctively design and develop systems with multiple points of redundancies to fail gracefully and recover automatically in distributed environments.

So choosing SRE was far from suicide. Instead it enriched their careers. Don't underestimate the kind of experience a SRE work at Google or Amazon can give you. An average SRE at Google works at a scale and complexity that an average Cognizant employee can't even begin to imagine.
The current spot price for a short ton of coal is $40 [1], if it stays this low for a while, and the subsidy is in fact above that price, then watch out for some "business model innovation" in this space.

[1] http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/coal/5-year/
New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown
Step 1: senior management asks for some numbers
Step 2: report produced. Management reads the executive summary.
Step 3: someone trying to look busy asks for an update. Report is updated manually, because it was never designed to be automated.
Step 4: report continues to be produced for years after anyone stops reading it.
Why are we comparing to humans? Shouldn't we compare autosteer to a human assisted by lane keeping assist?
Or there will be more drivers. Drivers will be working more since they need to make up the missing revenue with more hours.

The point is, it's trivial to make a rational argument either way. My question is, what do we need to know to separate these two cases.
It has already been touched on by another commenter, but testability of Machine Learned systems outside of a training dataset is pretty much a crapshoot.

An ML solution stops "learning" after training and only reacts.

To illustrate the difference, have you driven on roads under construction lately? As humans, when you've driven the same road hundreds of times, you start to do the same thing as a machine learned implementation. You drive by rote.

When you get to that construction zone though, or the lines get messed up, your brain will generally realize something has changed, and you'll end up doing something "unpredictable", i.e. learning a new behavior. The Machine Learning Ali's output (a neural net) can't do that. It can generify a pattern to a point, but it's behavior in truly novel circumstances cannot be assured.

Besides which, the problem still stands that the system is coded to ignore straight ahead stationary objects. Terrible implementation. It should look for overly fast and uniform increase in angular field coverage combined with being near stationary in terms of relative motion as a trigger to brake. I.e. If a recognized shape gets bigger at the same rate on all "sides" whilst maintaining a weighted center at the same coordinate. It's one of the visual tricks pilots are taught to avoid mid-air collisions.

Admittedly though, the human brain will likely remain WAY better at those types of tricks than a computer will be for a good long time.
VR install base is small, until Steam starts selling VR Porn video games.

Porn has a huge influence on technology. I won't be surprised if within the next few days, there's a huge surge on VR headset sales.
Much of the moral outrages of previous decades came from groups that might be labeled 'moral majority' or 'religious right'; think of the panics about D&D being 'satanic'.

In the current era, the urge to censor is increasingly coming from elements of the Left, where socially or politically "problematic" material becomes the new "blasphemous". From the quoted article:

>"Unfortunately this also means they'll likely be taking a similarly hands-off approach regarding wildly sexist, racist or homophobic content."

That's my guess as to why this isn't yet a "solved question" -- the fringes of both sides have to get their attempt at busybodying in before a stable synthesis can result.
Steam will ask kids when their birthday is before giving access.
"Machine learning is like money laundering for bias"

https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/744595961217835008
The same way you keep them from playing other games that are too violent, or games that are too scary for their age?

Good parental control settings and monitoring of their computer usage.
If "transportation is a right" means approximately, "everyone has access to affordable ridesharing", I don't think capping surge pricing yields this outcome.

Hitting the price cap necessarily leads to excess demand, i.e. some people have _no_ access.

In effect, those willing to pay the most are replaced by a random subset of those willing to pay PRICE_CAP or more.
Steam already has parental controls. Even AAA games have been selling titillating nudity for a while so you'd best already be using it.

And honestly any kid who's started puberty is going to try to watch VR porn videos, which are already easily accessible. So keep an eye on your Vive / Oculus.
Which is also exactly what GM is doing with Super Cruise. Here is just one of their commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u__51kTl4j8

Despite this warning in the manual[1]:

>Super Cruise is not a crash avoidance system and will not steer or brake to avoid a crash. Super Cruise does not steer to prevent a crash with stopped or slow-moving vehicles. You must supervise the driving task and may need to steer and brake to prevent a crash, especially in stop-and-go traffic or when a vehicle suddenly enters your lane. Always pay attention when using Super Cruise. Failure to do so could result in a crash involving serious injury or death.

[1] - https://www.cadillac.com/content/dam/cadillac/na/us/english/...
The crash attenuators are usually good enough to save people's lives. There are small grooves in the sides on some of the freeways in CA but they aren’t everywhere.

The problem with the attenuators are that they don’t get replaced fast enough which makes these accidents a lot deadlier.

You can see the difference between a used and unised attenuator in this article.
http://abc7news.com/automotive/tesla-claims-missing-safety-b...
How is that worse than every single FPS game where you can roleplay murdering someone? Unless you're also concerned about that, or you believe that rape is worse than murder, then you're suffering from miscalibrated worry.
Neil Gaiman: Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech?
Thanks for letting me know, I will avoid it.
The words "VR" and "porn" do not appear in the source: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

Beware of sensationalism.
It has _not_ worked "just fine" which is why we have bundlers, minifiers, and other build systems.
I hate celebrity startups
Nuclear seems like a better option than solar. Assuming capital cost is a major factor, you'd want the carbon removal plant to run all the time, not shut down at night. Constant load is perfect for nuclear.
Running a ride sharing service and charging ${WHATEVER} is also not a human right. Did you really wanted invoke this argument?
Originally, "code" referred to machine language. "Programming" meant designing the computation, and "coding" referred to translating it to machine language. "Automatic coding" was the term for translating a high level program to machine code, and it covered compiling and interpretation.

You can read all about it in Grace Hopper's 1955 paper Automatic Coding for Digital Computers.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/HopperAutoCodingPaper_19...

Though a woman, she talks the masculinized talk:

"The
analysis
is
the
responsibility
of
the
mathematician
or
engineer,
the
methods
or
systems
man."

[...]

"The
job
of
the
programmer
is
that
of
adapting
the
problem
definition
to
the
abilities
and
idiosyncracies
of
the
particular
computer.
He
will
be
vitally
concerned
with
input
and
output
and
with
the
flow
of
operations
through
the
computer.
He
must
have
a
thorough
knowledge
of
the
computer
components
and
their
relative
speeds
and
virtues."

[...]

"It
is
then
the
job
of
the
coder
to
reduce
the
flow
charts
to
the
de-
tailed
list
of
computer
instructions.
At
this
point,
an
exact
and
comprehensive
knowledge
of
the
computer,
its
code,
coding
tricks,
details
of
sentinels
and
of
pulse
code
are
required."
Of course. How about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/nhtsas-full-final-investig...

A 40% reduction still means plenty of anecdotes for media fodder.

There may come a time when autonomous vehicles make driving so safe that the only data we can and should rely on is the rare anecdote like this and the subsequent NTSB report, like airlines. But while it’s always good to take seriously the lessons that NTSB’s targeted investigations provide, a lot more people will die tragic but less-publicized deaths if we stop any company from deploying an imperfect but still overall beneficial technology.
There's still a common attitude that video games are for kids, so they shouldn't go overboard on sexual content.
Who is going to report these statistics ? Would you trust such a statement coming out of Tesla right now ?
Outlier Podcast Festival – Los Angeles
> The discovery of microbial life on another world would be as significant as the Copernican revolution.

The discovery of such remains on Mars would be the saddest thing ever. Like walking along a deserted island and finding a bony corpse's remains-and dealing with the full weight of what once was.
> They could have easily set up a division and staffed it with willing people. Or Alphabet the parent company could have started something else up (how costly is it to incorporate, really?). Looks like none of these things was even given serious consideration.

Did you even read up on this story because that is essentially what they tried to do and it backfired?
Tolkien and the Machine
Is your game 2D or 3D? How are you liking UE4 in terms of the engine's learning curve?
Ever in Touch – Building Relationships
Labor is hugely under supplied in SF. I hear it's really hard to get on a contractor's docket these days without a really big project.
It's the same principles isn't it? Government missing basic economic literacy.
Many possible explanations. One of the most common ones is cash flow. If you're somewhat at break-even, there just isn't any $1,500 around, but there are enough jobs to pay $320 a week, and do that every week. (This is by the way the same reason poor people often make "stupid" decisions)

This is the most common case for smaller companies - it's all hand-to-mouth, and you barely squeak into profitability, so you minimize one-time expenses that shorten your runway. (What we around here like to call "Ramen profitable")

There's also the fact that even with a tripod, you probably want somebody around - assuming they use high-end movie gear, a camera runs between $100k and $500k. Spending $10k a year on somebody who catches it in case of accident makes sense.

I'm sure there are other explanations. I'm sure there are places that make stupid decisions, too :)
I remember this was a protection scheme, but I don't remember who used it. They would use a laser to burn a small hole in the disk. At load time, the program would attempt to write to the sector with the hole and then read it back. If it succeeded, they knew it was a copy.

Basically, they created a disk that could accept writes everywhere except a certain sector, something you could not replicate with even a perfect copy.
But simultaneously, like discovering the ancient gravesite of what could be your ancestors.
Sure it does. If the costs of these datacenter operations were extremely high (say, by a factor of 100), you bet we'd have lower bitrate for Youtube, fewer GB allowances on Office 365, Dropbox, Gmail, etc.

Conversely, if it became literally free to operate, you can imagine we'd have a higher demand for data, storage, etc.

It's like how center pivot irrigation reduced the water usage rate per acre but increased demand for water usage in various areas because costs were lowered as well.
I don't understand the issue... it is trivial and in fact extremely common-place in impure languages to fundamentally disallow modifications to something's type. C++, which is definitely not pure but yet essentially has dependent types, is easily able to express this exact thought without problem, as your ability to modify things at runtime is extremely limited.

(Of course, the place where C++ is limited is its inability to template over non-concrete values, but I see nothing about its model that fundamentally limits its ability to conceptualize such a thing. It is still technically a dependently typed language even without the ability to do this, of course.) [edit: matt-noonan has told me that I am wrong on that last comment :(... so not "of course".]

#include <stdlib.h>

template <size_t S, typename E>
class Vect {
private:
E data[S];

public:
const size_t size() const {
return S;
}

E &operator [](size_t i) {
return data[i];
}

const E &operator [](size_t i) const {
return data[i];
}
};

template <size_t N, size_t M, typename E>
Vect<N + M, E> append(const Vect<N, E> &l, const Vect<M, E> &r) {
Vect<N + M, E> v;
for (size_t i(0); i != N; ++i)
v[i] = l[i];
for (size_t i(0); i != M; ++i)
v[N+i] = r[i];
return v;
}

int main() {
Vect<4, int> a;
Vect<2, int> b;
Vect<6, int> c = append(a, b);
Vect<8, int> d = append(a, b);
return 0;
}

test.cpp:36:18: error: no viable conversion from 'Vect<4UL + 2UL aka 6, [...]>' to 'Vect<8, [...]>'
Vect<8, int> d = append(a, b);
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
test.cpp:4:7: note: candidate constructor (the implicit copy constructor) not viable: no known conversion from 'Vect<4UL + 2UL, int>' to
'const Vect<8, int> &' for 1st argument
class Vect {
^
1 error generated.
The thing about the Constitution is that until it gets to the USSC, everyone gets to have their own interpretation of it.

People on the left were screaming that GWB was violating the constitution. People on the right were screaming that Obama was violating the constitution. Globalists et al are screaming that Trump is violating the constitution. But it literally means nothing until the highest court rules on it.
It will if it can't get a lock on the lane markers. For example mine does this when navigating through large unmarked intersections which in my home town has many where the far side lanes don't align with the lanes before entering the intersection (due to added left and right turn lanes). My Tesla will follow a car in front as they slightly adjust position to the offset lanes on the far side (which is very cool) but if there is no car to follow I just take over knowing it'll not handle it well.
Any idea how the DOJ got their Signal communications? I've never used the app, but did he just not delete his messages or something stupid like that?

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1004913094772944896
Sure. But it's prudent to assume that they'll do whatever they think is necessary, regardless of some particular reading of the Constitution. I mean, the Supreme Court could bless this practice, and who would stop them?
This is where simulators play an important role. Many AD( automated driving) solution suppliers are investing into simulators to create different scenarios and test performance of their sensors and also SW. Else, as you said it’s impossible to drive billions of miles to cover all usecases.
"he can become what they want to do with him, but it will take time." Who is "they" and what are they trying to "do with" this poor child?
Happy to take corrections to the text (and I can fix that link), but both of the points you're criticising are still correct, and actually re-inforced by the points you make -- noncommercial and not-for-profit are interchangeable in this context: your quotation is from the President's negotiating text, and ours is from the rapporteur's proposed amendment text. Neither are final, or even at this point definitive.

The final text will be a compromise between these positions, but both attempt to exclude Github and Wikipedia with inaccurate and non-useful descriptions. And the key point remains that the limitations on Article 11 will be defined on a nation-by-nation basis, rather those specified in an EU-wide text. The two texts express the same ideas in slightly different terms.

If you'd like an alternative explanation of these issues, I'd recommend Julia Reda's breakdown of the same problems here:

https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-fi...
"I've worked in FANG companies too."

No, you haven't. It is so apparent from your misguided views as expressed in your preposterous comments that it is glaringly obvious to anyone who has actually worked for FANG (in Bangalore/Hyderabad) that you certainly haven't.
Similarly, a lot of employees don't really know what the global mission of the company is or what their strategic interests are. I've definitely seen leaders fail to clearly communicate this. When that happens, people fall back to optimizing their local environment or department and that can definitely lead to useless shit or actions which while locally beneficial, actually impede the mission of the company.