skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The summary of the Stulz's article that is the source of this article[1] left me with a new insight into one factor why, in the current system, the companies with the highest growth potential (tech) don't IPO early. Sommer's article tries to leave me worrying about the decline of democracy. Unfortunately this worry is constantly repeated and is nothing new or useful for me.

[1]http://www.nber.org/reporter/2018number2/stulz.html

Making Sense of the Changes

The changes in public firms likely hold the key to understanding why the number of public firms has fallen so much. Participating in public markets is not as beneficial for firms that invest in intangibles as it is for firms that invest in fixed assets, especially when these firms are small and young. If a firm builds a recognizable product and requires capital to expand its production, it is relatively straightforward for it to explain to potential investors how their money will be put to use. As the firm explains its needs, it does not endanger its ownership of its assets. It is rather difficult to steal a firm's plants. If a firm invests in intangibles, it is much more difficult for its management to convince investors that it will make good use of its money. If the firms give too much detail, which they could be forced to do by disclosure laws if public, their competitors can use the information. If they give too little detail, investors will pay little for their shares. It is not surprising, therefore, that for such firms, participation in public markets with their disclosure requirements is likely to be onerous. It is much easier for such firms to provide detailed information to a handful of private equity investors who have specialized knowledge that enables them to assess a firm's investments in intangibles. This evolution of firms and of markets has many implications. Many of these implications have yet to be investigated.
The creator and presenter of Computer Chronicles, Stewart Cheifet, donated his personal copy of every single episode of the show to the Internet Archive. It was one of the first, if not the first, video content to be archived there.

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

And we must thank him for this, for it is an invaluable history of the rise of information technology. It ran weekly from 1983 to 2002, documenting the remarkable technological (and often social) change in that time.

Side note: It is remarkable that the first few years were co-presented by Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M and founder of Digital Research. He had no presenting experience at all, but still agreed to join the show to provide a more technical perspective.
Protocol cannot be open source. It can have a full specification published. A protocol does not have a source code, it's something that its implementation can have.

Also, what the heck does it do? Neither README nor title says anything about that. The closest thing to such description is mentioning that it "supports multimedia", whatever that means.
It's ironic that outlook.com blocked you when it itself is too costly to block in that you can't tell whether the message is important from a contact at say a Fortune 500 or another Nigerian scam.

Like you I ran my own stuff but possibly unlike I didn't encounter issues with recipients other than yahoo. I ran it from home from 2001 until last month and paid extra for a /29 static block from the phone company.
This guys has an interesting business model.

Just curious: With all the free online content, how do you justify paying for this service ?

I wonder how do you get your initial userbase with this kind of model...
Propeddle: Software Defined 6502 Computer Kit
I used to frequent geekhack.org quite a bit for mechanical keyboard stuff
I've long been skeptical of much of the behavioral economics literature. Not that it's necessarily wrong, but that the experiments are so contrived that they're difficult to generalize. But the pattern we see is, a contrived example with undergraduate students given $20 bills or something, and then cherry picking of anecdotal real world evidence.

It's easy to say that consumers and investors behave irrationally, it's harder to tease out hidden factors in a rational utility/loss function that may depend more on the expected value of one action.
New Drone Social Network
This network is soon to take off thanks to the help of some of CirclePro's top dog LinkedIn members check out this video @ https://circlepro.ca/post/14_just-a-few-clips-hope-you-like-it.html
Can you run GPU stuff for free? From reading the Faq it seems like you can. That seems pretty awesome.
Very short backstory: I was very severely punished for breaking security on our pcs at school (utilizing interactive startup on windows 95 to not start the "fortress" process.)

For a final project presented which was ostensibly a limited auto-translation application, I made an application which just popped up an alert, "program unable to run due to security"

Got an A!
It's perfect to start exploring ML frameworks. It allows to switch into GPU mode (Tesla K80 GPU but with limitations - less ram etc.).
Two very cool projects coming up are Briar and Cwtch. Both are P2P, E2E, and metadata-resistant over tor

Briar already has a stable release but I consider it not very viable for most communications because it doesn't yet have the ability to remotely add contacts (you need to scan the peer's QR code from their phone). But they're working on implementing that.

Cwtch isn't out yet, but it is going to implement many of the same features as Briar, with the added perks of having desktop and mobile clients with syncing between the two. It accomplishes this through an untrusted federation of Cwtch servers running over tor to store offline content (when a peer is down) and group chats.

As someone else mentioned Matrix is also a thing. It's not P2P and E2E is still in beta, but it also accomplishes different things compared to Tox et. al. like federating different chat protocols like IRC.
Just read the article. Air conditioning. If you’re in an air conditioned building or vehicle, it’s not Trump or Exxon that is destroying the world, it is you.

I foresee an underground movement of anti-AC hacktivists shutting down systems much like the anti-TV movement.
Number 1 lesson from this: ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA AT A DIFFERENT PLACE ON DIFFERENT MEDIA.

For google, to do this, use https://takeout.google.com/ . Download a copy of your data. Now.

Number 2 lesson to learn from this, which is very painful for many, is that there is a significant operational risk surface added by using cloud services, in that you may not actually have control or access to long historical records of data and metadata. Which means, despite clouds simplifying your life with respect to owning/operating/standing up your own kit/capabilities, depending upon how good/bad they are at being helpful in events like these, you massively increase operational risk by using them, as you lack control over the access to your data and history. If their policies and procedures run counter to what you need ... well ... think smelly creek, canoe, and no paddle or oar.

This is on the provider, and Google's "customer service" is known to be horrible for paying customers. I had used them at $dayjob-1, and found that depite paying them ~$100/month for my companies users of Google Apps/GSuite, I could never reach a person to help with a problem. I couldn't find contact points for asking for help. They had an email alias that took a while for them to answer, and it was as bad as the half-way-around-the-world tech support call centers, but in email form.

So, yeah. Back up your documents, emails, etc. Ask yourself what happens if they go away. If you are a small business person as I was, ask yourself what happens if one of your customers is late paying you, so you are late paying them. Kinda sucks to operate without your email and your documents ...

Call this one of the the down sides to *aaS.
I worked on a penny-bidding site. These guys "auctioned" items like PlayStation, tvs, cars to the user who placed the final bid on an item after 60 seconds of no further bids. Each bid would increase the final price by 1 pence/cent, but each bid would cost 50 pence/cents. You could "win" a $20,000 car for $500.37 and the house would have taken 50,037*50 cents. It might be okay if that was it -- but I was asked to code some "house bidders" who would outbid players until a certain threshold was met. I left that job shortly afterwards.
>TBH anyone's free to do whatever they want on their website

That's where you're wrong, kiddo. There's laws now.
The author uses the word fiction in the strict meaning of untruth. There is no untruth required for humans to engage in cooperation. Even a very rational person, who doesn't believe in any untruth, may engage in cooperation if it is more likely to benefit him than hurt him.

The author seems to not understand that there are reasons beyond untruth that can make this situation possible. crazygringo reply to my comment gives a specific example of this gap in the author's knowledge.
Ludum Dare is fun but it feels too vast sometimes - very rarely do I interact with a person more than once.
Are there new versions of kits like these? I'd love to build up a machine that was PDP-8 or PDP-11 compatible out of modern digital circuits.
What's sustainable about this building? We don't know the TCO through its lifecycle, nor its energy usage. And all those inefficient desktop fans can't help.
Very hyped author. I read Sapiens and despite very interesting points at the beginning and at the end of the book regarding things nobody can prove or disprove now, the bulk of the book is very week. A long logical juggling to praise a lot aggressions and mistakes because "hey, it could have been worst".
Yes, but note from the page: those unauthorized accesses were reported and the employees were sanctioned including demotion, etc.

On the private side, it can be worse, because the governance structure is not always there.

https://bgr.com/2016/12/13/uber-privacy-and-security/

Uber employees helped ex-boyfriends stalk ex-girlfriends, and were even able to access trip information for celebrities like Beyoncé, Reveal News explains. These revelations come from the company’s former in-house forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg.

Agreed from comment above this one - it's a problem both for govts and for private industry. I think what democratic societies need is an agreed framework for how as a society we regulate such data collection (as Schneier argues in the link I posted above, or as Doctorow has recently argued.)
I think you just proved my point. These people were so enticed by the idea of “getting rich quick” that they bought worthless tokens that gave them ownership rights to nothing.

Since they lack the sophistication to understand they were being scammed...why do you think they would have any understanding of classical valuation models?
index funds are made out of stocks. If there are fewer companies offering stocks for the funds to use, they are weaker.
Having a ready made Halloween costume with a see-through garbage bag: condom
I'm guessing the first company is Plaid. I'm in the ACH payments space so we're a potential customer of Plaid and I vaguely remember a presentation or something where they (Dwolla + Plaid) promise merchants the ability to grab 12 months worth of transaction history from a user's bank account. Could be wrong about that. I do know for sure I made a mental note to myself to never use Plaid as a consumer.
Exploring MLB sprint speed through Statcast data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology
Aside from the accessibility issues pointed out by another comment, this was mostly an annoyance upon our users that the higher-ups decided converted well. FWIW we did try to argue against it but profits dictate behavior in a large corporation. :-/

Either way, it doesn't exist any more and if you were ever bothered by it (I apologize), there are no over-arching effects that you have to worry about.
Maybe the arc will be him talking down an evil Wesley Crusher who is ravaging the federation in his mind controlled hyper warp ship :-).

More seriously I wonder how members of TNG feel about this move. The original voyage cast got 7 movies the TNG cast got 4, and the Abrahms crew has at least 3 movies (probably 4 if IMDB is to be believed)

So the cynic in me thinks this is just a grab at trying to save the Discovery series from an early demise (like the Enterprise series) by trying to slot in a character from a successful show. This worked at least once with ST:DS9 after all.
Maybe because those "extremists" saw what the communists were doing to their own people before this "free election"
I wrote telemarketing software. Not sure if I'll go into the same circle of hell as telemarketers, or something worse. But it is an incentive to live as long as possible before going to my reward.
Yep. Tesla K80 for 12 hours max at a stretch. Has awesome integration with man other services too.
Amateur radio! There's a growing interest in it from the Maker movement and people interested in SDR. It's a really great community as long as you avoid the bands where boomers complain about the VA, liberals, and young people.

If you're looking to test the waters - RTLSDR is cheap and a good place to start.
Classic Snake Game on a Tom Tom Spark
Has anyone else found that you can play classic snake on your Tom Tom Spark by going to STANDARDS scrolling right and pressing up?
Precisely.

It puzzles me how an educated person from the late 20th - early 21st century, who spends all his time learning and writing, can utterly fail to understand the structural and economic mechanisms of the modern world.
I've worked in waterfall and agile for 15 years, and the key lesson from Scrum is that it effectively exposes bad news early on. The scrum ceremonies do just that and nothing more. Once you get the bad news open and dealt with a lot of other work is made more worthwhile.
> Yes it's wrong, but what do I know? I just design electronic circuits.

This outlook, along with "well if I don't do it someone else will anyway", is why tech workers are quickly becoming the new bankers in the view of the public.
it's also ~90% ethnically russian iirc, and russia fought a very costly war with a lot of nationalist sentiment attached to it to gain control of crimea in the 19th century. these aren't realist school-type rationalizations but they are important context.
Blockchain’s Next Use Case: The Byzantine Organizational Problem
I appreciate the offer, but as I said in another comment. I am not accepting any more monetarily donations. This is not the aim of my post. It was a reach out to the coder/hacker community for support. I am not going to digitally panhandle.
> except that one highway exit on 101 that kills you

The conversations on the topic that I've heard involve building special, dedicated exits, sort of like truck weigh stations. And having them live not particularly close to urban centers.

So it a bit more of a holistic approach than bottom up, and something that will take a while to implement since you're not able to roll it out everywhere at once.

Not to say that there still won't be issues. I'm sure there will be. And I'm sure there's a long way to go still. But its also not a black and white issue.
Sneaky and dangerous are not the same thing
The implications of the question were pretty clear.
I would argue that the Alpha Zero algorithm does well at learning chess via self play to get to a master level, but the high level chess engines are super-optimized for their specific domain problem and so will remain out of reach.
I wonder if there is a good "beginner" overview of activitypub somewhere as well as somehow maintained list of active services providing AP?
It makes me sad that "technology" went from rockets and robots and lasers... to web pages.
The exciting thing about this is what other organs can be developed using this technique.
I feel like you are willfully misunderstanding the article.

To your first point, currency is a fiction, and any fiction can survive even if you are cognoscente of the fact that it is a fiction.

To your second point regarding only the 'bad guys' using fiction. He give the example of the tribe rising up against the Germans as 'good guys' using fiction, as well as Churchill.

To your third point regarding taking sides, how is discussing the sides of an argument taking sides? And even if sides are taken, how does that weaken the core argument being made?

The suggestion to seek out scientific literature for topics that an individual cares about is not a bad suggestion by any means. You are correct that the literature isn't perfect. Buy you are more likely to start gaining a less biased, holistic view of a topic than you would by reading any other sources. The core argument suggests that people simply need to ingest 'facts' with due diligence and a healthy degree of skepticism.

So, this is a good treatment of the topic that has been published in a place that hopefully many people will read and take away a better understanding of the flow of facts in the world today than if they had not read it.
>when we move to a new system we don’t get the actual business logic. we just reverse engineer it from the data.

I'm pretty sure this happens in most fields that don't spec out absolutely everything in advance. In an ecommerce setting my team had to do this with the checkout logic because the old system was so complex and convoluted. Starting with a fork of a 3rd party platform and then unleashing 10 years of short-term contractor enhancements basically guarantees that no one will have full specs.
Lucid dreaming - https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/
Yeah, true. But after the whole Facebook debate, I think future social technology needs stronger privacy protection built-in. If the only option is to share with everybody, then I suppose that's a bit simplistic and probably not what people need/want.
Yeah, A static analyzer should be able to figure out what's going on and throw an error.
Sarbox was enacted in 2002.
AI Chips: Past, Present and Future
They say shorts etc are fine, but in the picture, I see a guy in a suit and tie. It's an architectural firm; do you want to meet customers with pitstains on your shirt? I'm sure some customers wouldn't mind, but most businesspeople who are looking for a firm expect a certain level of professional attire.
The blockchain is really inefficient for making others store your items. It is there to make sure others can only modify your stuff in the way that you specify, and others can trust they have a genuine copy of your data.
How to you rate pain like this? There is no metric for pain/pleasure per dollar.

And there are other factors at play. Often the thrill is the dopamine release when you make these decisions — that’s the pain. If you’re intensely interested, losing $500 in Monopoly or scoring a run in baseball may be felt profoundly.

It all depends on context, not the means by which we measure an outcome.
Try Oracle's Java Flight Recorder. Was/is commercial, but is becoming part of OpenJDK 11.
telnet telehack.com
Cloudflare publishes transparency reports https://www.cloudflare.com/transparency/

It also promises not to store your IP associated with the DNS requests https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv... so the law enforcement would have to ask Cloudflare to install a wiretap device.

If you're this worried about being traced, it's probably best not to disclose your IP address at all https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-hidden-resolver/
In the late '80s/early '90s (college), I took notes on paper and typed them up the evening of the class. The benefits I found:

* Better engagement in class vs typing in class
* Better short and long term retention of learned material
* Easier exam prep due to better retention
* Higher grades vs not doing this
* Able to share useful notes with others

In my business life, I've found similar benefits. The primary difficulty is forcing myself to follow the pattern. It's easy to think "I've got this" and not type up a set of notes.
Will it not improve security for the majority of Firefox users?
Not your original point, but as a physicist, I chuckle at the proposition that we had "the right physics" in 1900 CE. The turn of the century marks the discovery of quantum physics and relativity, demonstrating that we're not even close to "the right physics".
Are Colab notebooks fully compatible with Jupyter? (i.e. exporting to .ipynb is completely lossless)

I'm worried about Google embracing and extending Jupyter notebooks, and then deciding to retire the service a few years later.
Yes, I was thinking you could triangulate the sphere at discreet shells. I have done 2D symmetric polygons where you needed to uniquely index into a 1D array of vertex values. Ie, based on the magnitude you can estimate which shell. By knowing the shell, you know the number of vertices for the shell, by knowing both you can map it to a specific vertex, as you can define a priori the absolute traversal order.

I have no idea if the 2D case extends to higher dimensions.
it is interesting that even with all these scandals that account holders haven't punished wf. The accounts fraud was in sept 2016, and looking at their annual report for last year, they increased revenue, increased total deposits, and increased consumer and small business deposits.

Maybe that's less growth than they would have gotten.. but it's definitely not a penalty. Just a complete failure by consumers to hold the bank accountable.

https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/assets/pdf/about/investor-...

But at least the fed is putting a cap on their growth now:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wells-fargo-fed/fed-o...
OpenAI plays DOTA against former professionals in an hour
After the coup in Ukraine and removal of pro-Russian puppet government and subsequent installment of pro-NATO puppet government there was indication that the new government will end the lease of Russian naval bases in Creamea(and possibly allow NATO bases)...
His wording is

> ...conventions such as the dollar?

> Such conventions, however, are not clearly distinct from fiction...

Not clearly distinct seems kind of ok. While you might have dollars in a completely rational society in practice people have funny ideas about currencies especially when you get on to the crypto ones.
> The psychological world needs a lot less of this, because handing people convenient identities without a corresponding plan of action for improving yourself that actually works, is contributing to rather than alleviating the problem.

Why? Psychology is not medicine. Psychology is the study of the mind. (Maybe you're thinking of psychiatry?)

We—psychologists—study the mind because we want to know how it works. It's basic research, like physicists studying particle collisions, or astronomers studying the cosmic microwave background. We're doing it in order to understand. We're approaching the same problems neurologists work on (how does the brain do this? why does the brain do that?), but from a different abstraction layer, using more of a social-sciences toolset.

This research, in particular, is interesting because it unifies several previous, more limited hypotheses about how and why the human brain ends up in a particular persistent state. It provides a rubric that allows researchers (not doctors; not laymen) to craft tools that find this state, and to make predictions based off of the presence of this state.

Researchers in possession of those tools can then use them to do other things. Like, say, medicine. But the basic research comes first.
See also Seedbank, which is Google's curated hub of Colaboratory notebooks: http://tools.google.com/seedbank/

I also wrote a blog post detailing my personal experiences with using/abusing the free GPU in Colaboratory to build text-generating neural networks: https://minimaxir.com/2018/05/text-neural-networks/
This will not scale at CF and is not compatible with their current architecture.
I enjoyed Enterprise, I am enjoying Discovery.