skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean September 1st right? June 1st is also a big moving day.
MIT Study debunks notion large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care
Another example of the transient nature of social technology companies (aol, friendster, myspace, facebook, twitter [fill in the blank]) compared to algorithmically founded technology companies (Google).
Ask HN: Recommend ways to bypass social media censorship in Uganda?
The Ugandan social media tax just kicked in today.

I have had a VPN subcription (Private Internet Acess).

But it doesn't seem to work. I suspect it was blocked.

What VPN service do you hackers recommend?

For more info on the social media tax;

https://bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-06-26/porn-detectors-facebook-tax-uganda-tightens-grip-on-internet
Facebook reveals data-sharing partnerships, ties to Chinese firms in document
It’s also not zero sum though. There doesn’t have to be just one successful company standing.
Consider the analogy of playing tennis against a tennis commentator (who wasn't formerly a professional). Sure, the commentator understands the game at a deeper level than your average joe, but it's a very different kind of understanding/skill from the pros making the money. I'd give myself better odds to beat the commentator / SE working for a market maker than the pro / fund manager.

This applies to journalism at large, but for market and trading analysis in particular, professors fit into this category much more than in other fields (such as engineering, where there is still a disconnect between academia and industry). In trading, anyone who truly understands the market at such a powerful level is using that knowledge to make money. It's a complex adaptive system, so publishing financially actionable research in the field is usually pointless because the market adapts. In my anecdotal experience, even engineers / employees of quant funds like yourself do not often really understand the market when they were focused on some specific piece of infrastructure / a part of someone else's larger design. When left alone without the infrastructure and systems they were used to, breaking even is often their best case scenario.

But this is all beside the point. Instead of personal attacks, getting defensive, and bowing to credentials, consider thinking for yourself and addressing the content, if you reply.

Source: I'm an anonymous professional trader who beats the market.
I'd rather my cloud provider err on the permissive side. Preemptively shutting suspicious things down without an external complaint seems a bit much…
No. Depression is as likely a symptom of underlying learning issues.

Try a professional screening for the usual suspects this summer break to see if there are some easy starting points. Pop into some subreddits and ask there.

ADHD types, ASD, BPD, SCT, GAD
Does it have select + cut/paste? Didn’t see it.
Because the implied point is about it being mainstream. Which what you’re describing explicitly isn’t.
That’s fair, but I feel like split_at_mut is far more well-known than reborrowing.
Unfortunately cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are a little ill-suited for automatic recurring payments because one of crypto's big selling points is that the crypto is stored on your computer, not in some bank or other computer, so it can't be easily automatically be taken from you. Of course maybe someone could develop a special type of crypto-currency or wallet system which allows for coin to be stored privately while also able to specify automatic transfers without any action by the user (nor the requirement to keep your computer online).
Thanks Jessica for that wonderful and candid post. I've applied for YC once a while back but didn't get in. I think many founders who don't have access to YC get bitter and start thinking it's a clan and only certain type of people (Elite schools, etc.) get in.

I think the problem, as you rightly pointed out, is that a lot of entrepreneurs are not that at all. They want to start a company and do a me-too venture just to ride the 'Sold to XYZ' train.

No one likes the test or to be judged by others and resent being rejected. When we talk of emotional intelligence, I think it's about knowing what you want to and can do, and allowing your peers or mentors to help you get there. I've met many YC alums and do see a certain set of qualities that unite them - I suspect those are the ones you picked up on :)

Thanks to you and the YC team for creating a wonderful new pathways to fulfillment for budding entrepreneurs.
Probably easiest to just use a crypto fund fiduciary if you're looking to invest for financial return. "Which tech should I build cool projects in" is a more HN-style problem. The problem with cryptocurrencies is you sort of have to solve both simultaneously.
Was thinking upwork. I may be off on rates. But when I hired a dev on elance (precursor site) a few years back, $30 was the price I paid. I tested a couple people for whether they could understand the request. Could have gone cheaper with worse English ability, but seemed like a mistake.

I imagine you do have to stsrt lower to get some reviews first. That’s a big thing clients look for.
CEO Threatned to remove me from platform over “Negative Review”
It's only trivial within each country, not across borders.
Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
Until I saw the stock image I was so confused. Adult content creators seems like almost everyone. It's outdated seeming to say it this way. Sexual content creators seems a better option.
If you do have reviews, is $30 US an hour reasonable? For a good level of English spoken.
I gave up too: I wanted to replace Eclipse with gvim but vim doesn't use efficiently multiple tabs by default and it would take a lot of configuration to change this..
Somebody a little while ago figured out the most popular Patreon pages, wish I could find it, but I remember there was SO much porn. Not regular porn either but weird japanamation porn, furry porn, you name it. And that‘s probably why Patreon doesn’t have a functional “discovery” feature.

Like I have a songwriting web app almost ready that I think might do well there but without a way for people to discover it through the community what’s the point of using Patreon and not a traditional subscription model? The porn has to go so they can have a “you might also like” column that isn’t filled with hentai barf porn or whatever.
When a life on benefits is a viable career option for many and indeed the system discourages many from looking for work because they would make less that way than on benefits then perhaps there's a problem, and benefits are too generous?

I'm all for looking after the vulnerable, but we give so much money to the feckless that we cannot look after those that are most deserving. Lavish money on the disabled, elderly, and the genuinely incapable. Provide a bare minimum of essentials for the cynical, whilst making life unpleasant enough to encourage take up of opportunities to improve, of which there are no shortage. Why do we give up on people so easily?
This also fits my experience (if you're looking for another data point.) Snapchat just needs to recognize this and capitalize on it correctly.
Honestly, I don't think a good majority of them would. Casinos are psychologically optimized to get you to spend the most time and money there and it works. They are also just convenient and legal, eliminating pretty much all barriers to entry except age.
"Adult content" or "adult entertainment" is, in US English, exclusively used as a euphemism for pornography.
I find that it is a non committal means of getting to know a person through humor. At least within the context of dating. It is an excuse to share random, humorous nonsense about your life that would be out of place in text, and does not require a response.
They do. If I have someone's bank details I can transfer for free, instantly. (OK it sometimes takes a few minutes at weekends). There's two issues with ever using that for online payment:

1. There is no mechanism to obtain a refund for a mistake - eg I mistype the account number, someone else gets the money. Banks won't reverse but ask the payee to refund. If they still exist and are willing to cooperate. This is the route used for many, many scams like Microsoft calling because they noticed a fault with your Windows.

2. There is no protection under the Consumer Credit Act to obtain refund in the event the company goes bust or the product is defective and they won't refund. Credit cards have to provide that.

I use it with friends in preference to any other method, especially Paypal though.
Perhaps "shooting war" might be a better term.
So, a sort of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis for business?
No, it's pretty trivial for SEPA countries.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/retpaym/paymint/sepa/html/ind...

Do you know of any problem?

Instant clearing/settlement is in TARGET2 which is the ECB's vision for 2020.
Note I don't work at Xilinx. And be prepared that what I'm about to write may seem incredibly cynical, sorry.

But if I were to take a guess at why the culture is the way it is, I'd say that it's because programmable logic is fundamentally relatively small logic tiles replicated across large areas.

That means across competing companies there's a high chance for infringing upon arsenals of patents for rather mundane things like interconnect, logic families, or memory cell layout where there are only a handful of viable alternatives yet the patent offices were likely duped into accepting multiple legalese interpretations of the same underlying tech. It's a minefield.

Xilinx is not really a chip manufacturing business either. They're fabless. Imagine having a company that designs RAM memory and outsources everything beyond the cell design. If you don't own the foundry itself you're not going to last very long unless you encrypt the memory access protocols, obfuscate your (probably patent infringing) hardware architecture by layers of undocumented tooling, and dominate the industry by buying up any upcoming contenders while cross-licensing stuff to build up a complex ecosystem of interdependent tools required to get even the most basic project done.
The United States is comprised of literally thousands of sovereign, independent governments. There are even independent limits on what rules these governments can impose upon each other. It is not a "subordinate" type of situation.

That's why the size argument comes into play so often. It's not really a landmass or even population argument as much as is it a complexity argument.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/12309/electric-f...
You are right that there is certainly a lot of luck involved, but there are many things you can do to improve your odds. Interestingly, the kind of factors that matter are often counter-intuitive to engineers, so engineers are probably disadvantaged when trying to pick a good early stage startup.

Some things to pay attention to:
1. funding and ability to attract substantial funding from top-tier firms... it's not a guarantee, but it improves your odds
2. CEO who values engineering quality and culture: again, it is possible to be successful without it, but it's far less likely
3. business-minded, focused founders
4. good market for venture-backed companies with potential for multiple paths to success
You can see the top Patreon creators on Graphtreon: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators

Even going back in time (Graphtreon keeps historical data), there's less porn there than you suggest.
Boosting your home exercise
This sort of thing is, actually, a reasonable use case for things like Ethereum's smart contracts. If there were a standard interface by which revocable "direct debits" could be created against users' wallets, this would be solved.

Except that it needs more thinking about than that, because of questions like "what data source does everything use to agree that 1 month has passed since the last transaction", or "can I revoke a direct debit within a certain time period after the money's left my wallet" combined with "how do I get notified when money leaves my wallet".

There's also the question of whether the ability to just register a monthly standing order with various common clients would be good enough, rather than needing to pull money.

A lot of this is a UX exercise rather than a technical one, to be honest.
Indeed, presumably they were then also at the mercy of the credit card company cancelling or declining the card at the critical billing renewal moment.
I’m not sure how competitive they are but stripe recommends PaymentCloud[1] when they boot you because you’re high risk

[1] https://paymentcloudinc.com
Why Is the Weekend in Gotham TV Series?
Keyboard: I like a tenkeyless cherry mx blue or cherry mx brown mechanical keyboard. I find tenkeyless more ergonomic because I don’t have to reach as far for the mouse.
Mouse: I love my MX Master, before that I had an MX performance. I don’t think I could use any other mice, the MX line mice just fit my hand so much better than any other mice I’ve used.
Polls in general are a good buffer to make a safe guess and involve everyone.
I should have quoted more. :) I was indicating why you might have gotten some early down votes, your comparison wasn't like to like.
When the danish goverment did it some years back, they used the data to recreate the whole of denmark in minecraft [0].

[0]:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-05/to-teach-...
That doesn't seem to be a consistent thing in LA anyhow. But yeah definitely some apartments dont have fridges supplied.
In Australia you bring your own whitegoods but stoves are usually built into the kitchen.
DjVu, an open PDF alternative
TechCrunch did an interesting piece on this: https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/02/paypal-square-and-big-ba...

The short version: PayPal blames the credit card companies, the credit card companies have nothing to do with it, and looking at court cases seems to indicate that regulations once required financial institutions to consider "reputational risk" but those were ruled unconstitutional a few years ago.

It seems like everyone is sleepwalking into censorship based on entrenched business practices rather than actually making reasoned decisions.
The judge has underspecified the process.

Judge says "on a weekday," and that it will be a surprise to the person being executed. But the judge has not specified which weekdays are actually in play.

Now, let's attempt to specify it:

"Judge will schedule the execution for one of the following days in the upcoming week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Judge will pick one of these days at random. This random process will determine the day of the execution, such that the person being executed will not be able to use a process of elimination to predict the day of the execution."

Now we can see that there is no paradox, only a self-contradicting specification.
I think that’s it but it didn’t have the categories when I saw it, so every other one was adult animation, etc.
> yet still notorious for violent street crime

As a resident, I have to say I'm pretty surprised to hear this. Is London that different vs similar sized cities?
Hope Rust runs on Solaris, for Josef's sake at least lol.
I'm finding it difficult to understand what you mean by 'uploading'. Do you mean in some kind of Mixed Reality scenario where we are interacting with virtual assets?
Obviously, modern humans use energy for consumption (and hopefully for enjoyment), to varying degrees of efficiency. Racing muscle cars isn't my thing but I recognize here's an average person spending their gasoline on something they might get something out of.

Bitcoin seems especially heinous because it a group of moderately well-off folks burning a truly vast amount of energy essentially for the purpose of getting more wealth than, say, non-bitcoin owners.

And given that unbridled energy consumption currently promises local and global disasters on an increasing scale, this particular use of energy especially outrageous.

Does that explain things?
That's true, unless you're moving to Montreal at some other time of the year; then it will be very difficult to find somewhere to live.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17424085
The continuum hypothesis is a well-defined logical axiom, occasionally.
Larger companies on AWS will spread their infra across multiple accounts to deal with this risk.
If anyone is interested in that type of data, our startup (https://tensorflight.com) extracts information like footprints and 10 other property factors for insurance (including bing imagery). More info: https://tensorflight.com/catalogue#Objects-supported-by-Tens... .
As an aside: which linter do you use? Been looking for one.
As a millenial myself, I've seen Snapchat usage stay roughly the same, but I've seen an explosion in Instagram usage. So IMO it's really just that Snapchat is stagnating relative to Instagram, and stagnation is death for a social network.
They are not for routine use, they enable long distance travel, which is pretty impractical without them.
> Of course maybe someone could develop a special type of crypto-currency or wallet system which allows for coin to be stored privately while also able to specify automatic transfers without any action by the user (nor the requirement to keep your computer online).

pre-signed, time-locked transactions?
In my experience, the support from the other clouds is equally useless if not worse.

AWS would never admit that anything is wrong from their side.
There is a simple resolution to this "paradox": it's only a paradox if you consider the judge's initial statement to be True. If the judge's initial statement is False (i.e. he's lying) then the whole situation is logically consistent. The truth table for modus ponens helps clarify, both F->T and F->F evaluate as T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens#Justification_via...

The judge is saying he can predict how someone else will feel in the future (i.e. he can predict the future), which unless he is omnipotent is a false premise in my book.
Thanks for the info. You may be right about the downvote reason (though it's a pretty ridiculous reason), but I don't think that matters since they are in the same industry providing a similar service and there's no reason why GCP can't provide the same service as Vultr, especially since they charge a lot more for their instances than Vultr does.
>>The CNTK toolkit developed by Microsoft is open source and available on GitHub as well. The ResNet3 model is open source and available on GitHub. Our Bing Maps computer vision team will be presenting this work at the annual International State of the Map conference in Milan, Italy

Nice!
I'm reminded of the saying that "Publishing research without data is simply advertising, not science". Not even publishing the research means it doesn't have a chance at advancing the state of the art. I don't understand how such research can be successful at anything other than selling a few extra copies of a software product likely to disappear within a handful of years. Unless it's implemented as the absolute killer feature of a very successful product it's very unlikely anyone will ever know there's anything novel in there.
Berlin has the S-Bahn, which is an elevated train network, and so there are a lot of overpasses, and elevators, stairs, and so on. And big stations are full of shops. Pretty great.
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People like to say that, but in practice it's not true and hasn't been for over a century.
Using such proprietary features sounds like a great way to subject yourself to vendor lock in and leave you vulnerable to your cloud provider's every whim. I understand that using ready made features is alluring, but at what point are you too dependent on somebody else? All these cloud services reminds me a bit of left-pad, how many external dependencies can you afford? Maybe I'm too suspicious and cynical, but then I read articles like these from time to time...
As a citizen of the UK I can tell you that until Brexit became along the political narrative since Cameron became PM had been all about 'The Cuts'. The fact that, despite widespread cuts to the civil service and the police, spending has increased just goes to show that ideology has become more important than sense in 2018.

Talking about the specifics however, the number of police officers in the UK have been reduced by around 19 thousand. Since that only leaves 126k I hope you will find that significant. I find the continued expenditure on unproven gadgets rather distasteful against this backdrop.

https://fullfact.org/crime/police-officer-numbers-have-falle...
The same problem exists for firearms and related products. There are only a couple of (expensive) processors out there.
Shape and material are both at the top of a typical spec process, IMHO.
I enjoy the math versions.

"Theorem" version:

Every integer is interesting. (Otherwise, one number would be the smallest uninteresting integer. And that would be of notable interest.)

"Paradox" version:

What is the largest number that cannot be described in fewer than 100 characters?

Or even the classic paradox by Russell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

Does the set of all sets that do not include themselves include itself?

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The essence of all these is the malformed self-referential definition. The surprise/interestingness/definition/inclusion is "defined" recursively in such a way as to be actually not well defined.
The electric field outside an infinite capacitor is zero. For a finite capacitor, there is a nonzero field. The importance of the infiniteness assumption can't be understated--such a capacitor cuts the universe in half, and every point of one half has the same electric potential.

On the other hand, if the capacitor is finite, then the surface integrals over the plates are not equal.
That was true up to 1/1/2018. Now the transfers take a couple of minutes in most cases. The frustrating thing is that it is now quicker for me to move money between say ABN-Amro in NL and some Polish or Romanian bank than it is to transfer between ABN-Amro in NL and a RABO or ING account in NL.
There are chargers here and there but the fastest of them are half the speed of the superchargers and that makes a big difference. And the superchargers are methodically placed to enable long trips. It’s not about the free energy — Which is what has suspended — It’s about freedom of movement. Teslas can replace a gas car for almost everything; without that infrastructure no other EV can (yet).
I always thought this as payment processors optimizing their bussiness model till it's overfitted to "non-porn".

I never worked in porn but I did work with payment and clearance systems from carrier companies a long time ago, think billing customers for SMS messages to specific numbers and then getting clearance for the carrier for the money. The risk of fraud or any kind of weird issue is stupidly higher for porn. Either simple "customer doesn't have the money" fraud or "the police knocks on your door because you got money from X customer" fraud. So maybe you need more people or better systems to deal with it while still being profitable. CCBill charges are huge when compared to other credit card processors.

It's easy to reduce costs and complexity until the easiest solution to keep or improve current margins is don't do porn.
> Either that or you have to build kitchens in such a way that it’s possible - e.g always free-standing fridges with no fitted cupboards on top etc.

That's pretty much the case in Quebec. My current place has cupboards over the fridge, but they are pretty high up, so you can fit any non-humongous fridge in there.

I'm really not much of a fan of the 1st of the July thing though. Finding movers is such a pain, and they charge 300% of the price of the off-season (every single other day of the year).
Wow, haven't heard of a story like this yet where a cloud provider provider shuts down all resources without warning...

Luckily, with AWS and Azure there is great competition to move to.