skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said "hard to find" not "impossible to find". Start with being in the subreddit or relevant other high-traffic high-SEO community for the subject, and see what other places the good members are discussing (often a discord, IRC channel, Slack, forum or similar). Recurse a few times, and each time you do you'll get a higher signal-to-noise ratio, higher expertise, lower abuse/garbage behavior, etc

If you just link random people directly, you'll inevitably get some folks that can't read the atmosphere and just generally walk all over the flowerbeds without realizing what they're doing. AKA they need to "lurk moar"
Widespread Adoption of Cryptocurrency in 2018
yes yes YES yes

I love the SCP Foundation.
While I don't disagree with your sentiment, I think WF would have done the refi if it met their criteria. The reason: they make a lot of money on new loans (refi or otherwise) due to the loan origination fee. In my case the fee was going to be about $1,500 for a ~$90,000 loan. Since mortgage originators usually process the payments, I assume they get some compensation for ongoing loans. However, my understanding is most mortgage originators don't "hold" the loans. They sell them off, so to speak, to be used as a part of an investment product (e.g. a CDO). Funny thing is, you might invest in a small part of your own home loan via a mutual fund (or pension fund). How screwed up is that! That's the real rotten thing about the industry. No skin in the game.
Are they sold anywhere? I can see them becoming very collectible, and fast.
Well, windowless bathrooms are not uncommon. And most modern construction has walk-in closets, which typically lack windows. Even so, a source of white noise is always prudent.
Beta Testers Needed
That's interesting, is it using a protocol (standardized notation?)

Does anyone know what kind of protocol Wordfeud (Scrabble clone) uses?
This 'glitch' feels like a stretch. People were going to lose their homes so they would have followed up with the bank, so there would be support staff, escalations, and multiple departments and chains involved to fix any genuine glitch, so is Well Fargo saying that their entire process failed?

For instance if a billion dollars lands in your account, do you think there will be no process to fix the 'computer glitch'?
hey! of course, join us on Freenode's #osdev channel :)
I find your comment offensive.

This is a condescending attitude that keeps people outside the financial class on the fringe and destroys their ability to take control of their lives. If you treat people like children they will forever remain children.

As a struggling low-income millennial, FATCA and accredited investor requirements have easily set me back a decade.
I tried to look this up, info here: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/Regulations/Technic... (Ch. 3 sec. F, pg. 13)

F. SCIF Window Criteria

1. Every effort should be made to minimize or eliminate windows in the SCIF,
especially on the ground floor.

2. Windows shall be non-opening.

3. Windows shall be protected by security alarms in accordance with Chapter 7 when
they are within 18 feet of the ground or an accessible platform.

4. Windows shall provide visual and acoustic protection.

5. Windows shall be treated to provide RF protection when recommended by the CTTA.

6. All windows less than 18 feet above the ground or from the nearest platform
affording access to the window (measured from the bottom of the window), shall be
protected against forced entry and meet the standard for the perimeter.
Why do you even care about other people's beliefs?
Ask HN: Are downvotes a good way to differentiate post quality?
I feel the HN community has changed for the worst in the last two years. I used to have more thoughtful discussions in this community, but now I noticed flame wars are much more common, especially those surrounding politics. I see more people use their accrued points to down vote others because they don't agree with the other person. It has become a tool to silence those they dislike and not about having a conversation.

You naturally accrue more points, the longer you stay in this community. Even if each posts only gain a few points. I feel that these buttons (both like and dislike) are no longer a good way to capture post quality. Instead they are used as an emotional response to someone else's opinion. Does anyone else see this happening?
Rule of thumb: skip any edc that has a gun or more than 1 knife.
Surprisingly a noticeable chunk of the people in my bjj classes were software engineers. A lot higher percentage than in my boxing or muay thai classes.
Do I get it right that in the US charity donations are a tax credit, with no limits?

Where I'm currently resident we simply get to deduct it from income, iirc you can deduct up to 20% of your yearly income. That might avoid the ethical concern about not paying tax.
Or keep continuous, incremental backups of your local disk. IMO that's a good idea regardless to avoid losing stuff.

Personally I prefer to leave everything on gmail as well as the local backup though, so it's all searchable there.
This affected my sister's friend supposedly. He's been living with her and her family for the last few months. Nice guy, but it is a bit awkward having this stranger show up whenever she stops by with the rest of her family.
Other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17692577
If you're suggesting hacker news is a "niche" community, then we're likely talking about different scales of niche-ness. HN has a few orders of magnitude higher traffic and larger target audience than the types of communities I had in mind.
Thank you for posting this! The tenacity of the OpenBSD community keeps on impressing me.
Mostly the insufferable Silicon Valley entrepreneur stereotype.
I've been on the receiving end of this once and the company refused to not use the automated system. The automated system didn't believe my savings account was a savings account since my bank had it under 'passport savings' or some such nonesense. Even through emailing they basically said if the system doesn't do it then there's nothing they can do about it. I think it's a big invasion of privacy for a system that doesn't even work well.
>Definitely a low point.

I totally understand. It just made me feel dirty. I quit as soon as I was able.
Forgive me, as someone with zero actual knowledge in this field. This may be a naive question, but wouldn't this be fairly easily defeated by playing songs in the background?
It's not a pro game, those are still amateur players (some of them ex-pros).
Preventing small time retail investors from buying into high risk startups is a good thing. Unfortunately the general public has proven over and over again that they lack the financial sophistication to comprehend the difference between a scam and an investment opportunity. Remember even VCs lose money on a vast majority of deals.

That's an extremely elitist, if utilitarian perspective. It doesn't make it wrong. However, consider that having a lot of wealth as a pre-req for obtaining wealth is, of course a circular problem. It's a legalized entrenchment of wealth sort of situation and the justification is, the public good.
> So it is with this Swift example and having a protocol, an extension, and a base class all declaring the exact same thing.

I'm not sure what you mean. The only thing that's named the same is 'greet', and of course that has to be the same because it's the thing you're implementing.

Edit: Perhaps the protocol and extension could have different names? I don't see how that would make the behavior clearer.
Is this particularly related to tech, or even new? Isn’t giving to charity (or things that claim to be charity) quite a common thing for the rich to do to reduce their taxes? And something that’s been done for decades too?
Why AI researchers are so obsessed with games like Dota 2
I’ve been down this road, re-encoding is always lossy, you’ll end up with smaller files with no “noticeable” compression artifacts, but the original MPEG2 will still be of superior quality.
Well it got me to click on it. Which in the end I’m pretty happy about; it was a very interesting article. Can clickbait be justifiable if the end product is good?
Not really as a programmer but I've hacked an online cooking competition to win a kitchen aid. It was just extremely poorly setup.
A few weeks ago I bulk downloaded every single MPEG-2 file and transcoded them all into deinterlaced h264/aac files.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how to re-share these converted versions in bulk, I'd be very happy to.
Haskell has no problem with this(though its default Num hierarchy is sorely lacking)

Prelude> a = 1
Prelude> a/2
0.5
Prelude> :t a/2
a/2 :: Fractional a => a
Prelude> b = 1 :: Int
Prelude> b/2

<interactive>:6:1: error:
• No instance for (Fractional Int) arising from a use of ‘/’
• In the expression: b / 2
In an equation for ‘it’: it = b / 2
Prelude> b `div` 2
0
Prelude> :t div
div :: Integral a => a -> a -> a
I've noticed that too, especially in the gi compared to boxing. Lots more doctors / lawyers / engineers training in the gi. I think it's because we're all weak and need the grips to slow people down, haha. Well let me speak for myself, I'm weak and need the grips to slow people down.
This one :)
Well, Dell didn’t do a buyback, the went private with funding from a consortium of investors including Silver Lake Capital and Microsoft. Similar idea (buying your own equity) but different in objective/degree. As a private company, you are shielded from the pressures and requirements of the public markets which can make certain corporate changes more efficient/effective/palatable.
Functional programming talks
I'm sorry to be mean, but this title is stupid and condescending. He didn't use Word to solve the problem, he used Word to write the paper about the solution. It really has nothing to do with how the problem was actually solved. Might as well claim he "used Windows" to solve the problem.
I think that would just add music to the sound recovered.
Isn't that until the Chinese play catch up and copy all the technological competitive advantage the West currently enjoys?
And you think that developing on Android is better? The emulator is running in x86 with an ARM emulator that running a Java virtual machine is giving you any “guarantees” (your words in a previous post) on how it will work on the device?
I highly recommend koreader. I use it on a Kobo Aura HD, and it's really excellent. It's much nicer for lots of things than staring at a computer monitor.
Publix Supermarkets comes immediately to mind. There are others, if you dig through the Fortune 500.

The requirements for such companies are nowhere near as onerous as those required of public companies. They need to file a 10-K and 10-Qs (as necessary), but most other filings are not required. They are also not subject to Sarbanes-Oxley or Dodd-Frank.
Hmm I might have to give that a shot. Thanks!
It's not that exciting and it's very easy to beat humans at games when your reaction times are far faster and you have access to more information at a single moment in time. It's like being impressed by a calculator.
Conversations.im is what i have found to work best.
Works fine as long as you generate x,y,z randomly and not their squares.

Same process but minor tweak.

https://jsfiddle.net/w8zLvsy2/
There are also those to do tool-assisted speedruns, where they play a game and complete it frame-by-frame, doing precise inputs that a human might not be capable of in order to show the theoretically best time that a game can be completed in.
Nobody understands cryptocurrency valuation, this is a brand new asset class. Whereas, stock investing is pretty mature at this point. People bought and flipped real estate in the 00's in a bull market only to see it all crash in 2008. Bubbles happen. Doesn't mean you cut out everyone who doesn't have $1 million in the bank. That's like only letting skinny people eat healthy food.
Yes, and they do vote.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-30/iss-tells... has some useful pointers.
Show HN: Hall of Mirrors for Hugo [mp4]
Did your company made any money off that? It sounds like a great way to make sure people don't stay there and to get downranked by Google.
3D-printed (and CNC-milled) guns: Nine questions you were too afraid to ask
A fan would probably work too, as it adds more white noise to the already noisy signal
When a deadline had passed sent blank tapes to clients and then claimed the postal services had wiped them when scanning with xrays, asking the clients to send back the tapes so we bought a few more days
How the Other Half Eats
That's not really how the history of atomic bombs went down. Szilàrd imagined the destructive power of chain reactions around 1932, nuclear fission was discovered in 1938, and soon after the Manhattan project was started with the clear intention of understanding the science enough to make a bomb.

I frequently encounter people who believe that nuclear energy was harnessed initially for power generation and then co-opted for destructive purposes. The first nuclear reactor was created to enrich uranium to make a bomb.
I discussed with what seemed to be ex-journalists here.

IIRC the question was why people hesitated to explain anything to journalists.

I earned myself a few downvotes and it seemed they agreed I wasn't to bright && probably had something to hide
control your own DNS. When you register a domain, your registrar asks you what you want to be the domain name servers for it. This is the same info that shows up for the namservers in a domain's WHOIS entry. If you control the nameservers you can quickly and easily do things like move the mail services elsewhere, in the event that your third-party-hosted mail services go rogue.
I'm not saying I agree with the current restrictions on accredited investors, but there should be a middle ground between what we have now and what we had back when the dotcoms collapsed the market. Back then, there were stocks so risky they'd make today's ICO investors nervous if they'd been presented honestly. But they were sold as being relatively safe in a way that allowed early-stage investors to foist their failed bets on to the public.

I witnessed first-hand a situation where executives engaged in outright fraud in an effort to kick the can far enough so that the VCs and execs could cash out. The aftermath of that fraud was two scapegoats who were sentenced to 18 months each and had to pay fines of less than 10% of the profit they made from their crime. If you're an individual who invested in the company and lost all your money, then fine...I can see the personal responsibility angle. But most of the losses were mutual funds and pensions where the losses were felt by people who had no hand in choosing that investment. Instead, that was financial professionals and the perverse incentives they're given that push them to seek outsized returns.

There's a very good possibility that we're in an over-regulated state at the moment, but it's important to remember that in the complete absence of regulation, the public gets fleeced. The focus should be on finding the right regulation rather than vilifying the general concept of regulation.
I strongly disagree with this. I enjoy the Uber experience and the customer support that the company provides.

To me, Uber is a great company both as a customer and entrepreneur.
You're opening a can of worms there.
Looking through the source, this implementation is only stereo (so far). Might not be too hard to expand that out to 5.7/7.1.

https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream/blob/35bc85bd830fe40e8...
Thin wrapper around your favorite HTTP client to simplify your api calls
Your example does not have the same structure; `Int` and `Float` are concrete types, not interface types.

> strong typing

Strong typing is not the same as static typing. `let greeter: Greeter = LazyGreeter()` is a strongly-typed `LazyGreeter`: you cannot use it where a value of another incompatible type is required, nor can you change its runtime type. But its static type is `Greeter`. Swift uses the latter for method resolution, but there's nothing inevitable or inherent about that.

`NSArray * array = [NSArray new];` is statically typed as an `NSArray`, but its dynamic (and strong) type is `__NSArray0`, and that's where the value's implementations come from.

> they model the same underlying mathematical concept

They don't: one models an integral and the other models(/approximates) a real. Which is why, as another commentor already pointed out, they're not `==`.
"I guess we'll have to send them another blank tape" was a common trick in the 90's.
I wrote a tampermonkey script that automates this:

https://blog.bench.co/blog/how-to-hack-priceline
Excellent work! Glad they re-typeset it in LaTeX!
I didn't realize I cared about speed-running until I saw this YouTube video from Summoning Salt about N64's Mario Kart level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99Wj-NStok
> I'm also not sure where you're reading the requirement to identify the users.

Not identify as in get their names. Just identify enough to know when they come back. Knowing which MAC to filter would probably be enough.

http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise39.html

> First, the service provider is expected to adopt and reasonably implement a policy for the termination in appropriate circumstances of the accounts of subscribers of the provider’s service who are repeat online infringers of copyright.

You'd need to also identify which device was infringing by getting a connection time/destination.
Noob here, and only read the article. It sounds strange since afaik some of the mentioned manifestations are full-blown disorders in the physiology, or at least work like that―namely psychopathy. Now, there would be no surprise if the conclusion was "you need to have less empathy if you gonna be evil," but apparently the scores don't depend on any single one of the manifestations.

Also weird for a research paper like this one to have its own site that looks like a startup landing page.
By loaned, I assume you mean borrowed? Usually, a bank does the loaning, a company does the borrowing (I.e. is the recipient of the loan.

In effect, you could be right, but, not all loans are secured the same way, and not all loans use equity as collateral. But, in the case of the above, you as a shareholder could be one of those that sells your share instead of keeping it. Corporations that use loans to buy their own stock are changing the picture of how their company is expected to perform. If you do not like this new picture, you are not obligated to own their stock.

If the company goes bankrupt, it is frequently true that the equity holders get hurt the most, but, that is reflective of the underlying math of equity ownership in the first place. A stock is worth some discounted value of the company’s future earnings. It is not a guarantee of some payment. A bond/loan is a guarantee of payment, but not reflective of future earning (though its market value may reflect the likelihood that it will be paid back).

Put another way, if the loan is a bad idea, and the company is not going to be able to pay it back, then that will probably be reflected in the stock price. For companies that take loans to do share buybacks, the risk of non payment of the loan is also priced in to the stock price by the market. If you don’t agree with this, and feel that the market has mispriced the stock, then there are abundant financial products (options, derivatives, etc) to allow you to express that opinion financially.
So, to be clear, the real problem here is the "upvote this so that when people search..." meme that you inadvertently created. :)
I race Spec Miata in SCCA San Francisco region.

The Spec Miata class has ~35 cars in a given race here in the Bay Area. It's probably the biggest amateur class out there. The community is very vibrant and racing is a blast.
I don't see how they could enable it by default unless they query both local and DoH at the same time .. or perhaps a hybrid model where they only using DoH by default on certain TLD's and / or domains.

Corporate users would be utterly broken unless their IT staff are managing the proxy settings in all their installed browsers, which is often not the case. This would lead to Security and IT staff blocking CF DNS until it was fixed.

I believe this is a good thing to watch for, but I can't imagine Mozilla not having thought this through.
I think we agree. It does take bravery for management to admit that shareholder will achieve better return elsewhere.
Correction: .mode = 0 disables it!
Not as part of a graphic's library. You might want to do 4d or 5d. But past that is very unlikely.

In terms of actually solving to proble you just want a vector random distance and a function that to map random distance to actual distance. But if you never deal in 6+ dimensions that's a waste of time.
It's possible to give riders good, modern conveniences like being able to order and pay with a pocket computer app without breaking taxicab regulations. That is, it's possible to be a cab company with good service, a good fleet, and good app integration. Here in Montréal we have Téo Taxi as an example of this kind of service. As a plus, their fleet is also all-electric.

https://teomtl.com/en/

Legally speaking; they're plain cabs. They have the same fares as all other cabs, and follow all the regulations that other cabs obey. The company that owns them has also bought another cab service, Taxi Diamond, which has begun to operate in a similar manner, with a pocket computer app, and the two fleets may even share with each other. During peak hours when a Téo is unavailable, you may get a Diamond instead.

I know similar services have popped up elsewhere in the world. I don't know if Uber is directly responsible for these updates to cab services, but their existence means that it's possible to be better without having to break all existing laws. Laws which exist to protect both consumers and employees.
Because of a quirk in the design of most cameras’ sensors, the researchers were able to infer information about high-frequency vibrations even from video recorded at a standard 60 frames per second.

That’s a pretty convenient quirk if you ask me.
Philosophy is how physics got into its current dead end and the only science that can get it out of it.
Noisy – A script that generates random HTTP/DNS traffic noise in the background
Well yes and no. Sure, micro is a large part of Dota, but planning and coordination is worth as much. So reaction time gives you an advantage in one spectrum, but I think the real benchmark will be macro scale planning and coordination. Same applies to the Starcraft AI competition, where the bots still lose due to macro planning.
Yes but it unfortunatly completly ignores the topic of spam and moderation. So we will have another 10 years of experimenting at the expense of the users and the standard. And we may end up with some centralisation again like with email.

Still a great tech though. I just wish the authors would think about IRL and not just assume a perfect sphere in a frictionless vaccum.
Simple blog post for beginners about text clustering with K-means and tf-idf
Actually no, it's very well known in investing that index funds tend to outperform actively managed funds over the long term[1].

[1]: https://www.thebalance.com/index-funds-vs-actively-managed-f...