skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed is planning to shrink its balance sheet by $2 Trillion between now and 2022. They've already shrunk it by almost $350 billion (basically, shredding digital cash.) It is more likely the global economy is more fragile than the Fed realizes (due to China) and we will experience asset deflation, not inflation. We likely (imo) won't see any significant velocity of money changes in the US until well after the unwind is complete. Because banks, while flush with cash, are still hesitant to lend during the unwind and high yield credit markets are not doing well at all.

I suspect we could see a mild recession with little Fed action other than just pausing their unwind for a while, unless there is some serious crisis (which I can't see happening unless the high yield credit market were to completely implode.) One problem that could allow that to happen, is if oil were to completely and utterly nosedive and make a lot of oil service companies with high debt loads default. Again, I doubt this. I am not a doom and gloomer, I think we are about to enter a recession/bear market but the "great recession" has gotten something in people's heads that every recession must be a systemic collapse instead of a resource reallocation...
I get news about AI related topics from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to:

HN

https://reddit.com/r/machinelearning

https://reddit.com/r/artificial

https://kurzweilai.net

https://ai.stackexchange.com

http://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent

http://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent

http://arxiv.org/list/cs.NE/recent

http://news.google.com/search?q="artificial intelligence"

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22artificial+i...
It's tricky, but it's basically a dedicated coprocessor for matrix maths. So this gnarly little piece of code is probably one of the half dozen pretty-much-stock examples of what you can actually do with the thing and once you've got it going, you just leave it alone.
I don't understand why this comment was downvoted--my understanding has been that a major component of rising housing prices globally is Chinese investors wanting to move their money out of the Chinese economy and into something they perceive as more stable, less corrupt etc.
If we have deflation with rising incomes, there would be no issue. If there is deflation with declining incomes, it would create a downward spiral, potentially.
At least in terms of college admissions, they started doing that with Jewish applicants many decades ago.
We live in a representative democracy with indirect control for voting citizens, the granularity you suggest is possible when voting is only possible when there is a direct democracy.

If there is serious, broad outrage about an issue that lasts through an election, then change may come for that issue under our current system. As is, stuff that most of the voting public objects to happens daily, but these actions are shielded by our current system.
Apple managed to get people happy to wear a computer on their body for most of their waking hours. Even 10 years ago such a thing would have been considered far fetched.

They called this computer a watch so that people had a shortcut to think about its utility and placement on the body.

They then introduced it as a high-end fashion item (e.g. in gold) to ensure that style makers can't dismiss it as simply a geek low end piece of technology. It didn't need to continue to be a high end item but by introducing it as this, it managed to allay any potential initial low end connotations.

They managed to make it a high-end fashion item by hiring some of the most experienced people in luxury goods. People such as the former CEO of Burberry, the former CEO of Yves Saint Laurent and world class designers such as Marc Newson.

What did Android OEMs do? They slapped some technology together, grabbing an OS from Google and a processor from Qualcomm. Lately they've tried partnering. None of it will work and they should just give-up trying to compete with such a multi-faceted approach that Apple is taking with wearables.
They do, but that's about one year's worth of expenses for Mozilla.
I see no evidence that the problem is that people were unwilling to fund uncomfortable results, but that they didn't see the point of funding a calculation that as the article notes, could be done on the back of the envelope, and without any proposed solution. Basically, what would the funding add to this statistic?
The problem is that Aussie contributors of good character may find themselves forced by their government to sabotage a project they are working on - I think at the very least we have to check their work closely
Ahh yes, thank you! Every time I post in a thread about Malmö & Copenhagen I learn something.

Last time I tried talking about the TV show The Bridge using its original name (Bron/Brøn, I hope I got it right this time!), but I think I used an umlaut instead for the Danish spelling, and apparently that means something different...
https://www.laurelvec.com/ Is a list of places that do free exams.

If you are in Seattle, it happens every month (I know it still goes on as I’m occasionally one of the examiners).
Thank you for this.

I've been subject to these site rules myself, and felt my ire rise when it happens that I've been on the wrong side of them (with political discussions), but this particular response absolutely infuriated me and I am grateful for the rules being applied in my favour, for once.
Norvig's Law:

Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).

http://norvig.com/norvigs-law.html
The IRC Foundation, as it says on the linked page, doesn't exist yet. That's a goal of irc.com to do.

irc.com is a domain purchased by Andrew Lee of Private Internet Access last year. Formerly, irc.com had a letter written from him about his goals hosted on it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180622180151/https://irc.com/
That would be a smash hit.
You do see the irony in shouting down my characterization and then shamelessly exemplifying it don't you?

A vesting schedule is someone feeding you your equity back to you over time. Pure and simple. Of course it's easy to see why someone would accept such terms: VC's are offering to hand over large amounts of money. If it's a term most founders are willing to accept without getting much additional in return that is perfectly fine and up to each founder.
Anyone who accepts it as "a favor this VC is doing for me" is delusional.
Same. It's great. Moreover, I meet people from all walks of life. I'm a software engineer, but my men's group has electricians, video editors, plumbers, therapists, etc. It's a mixed bag.

I wonder how much of the issues we have with increasing social stratification are due to the fact that who you know is basically completely dependent on your job these days.
That is what is so scary about this. Australia is still committing crimes against humanity - this law pulls the tech community into that, and involves us in something that I would hope a lot of us would never choose to willingly participate in. But, if we leave in protest, the gap will be filled with people who have no problems with these human rights violations.
I was in honors math, until a teacher in high school told me I wasn't cut out for it. I ignored the teacher's recommendation and kept myself in honors math for the rest of high school. I ended up taking AP Chemistry and AP Calculus in high school and passed with As and Bs.

Despite all of this, when I got to my freshman year of college, I didn't see myself as someone who would be interested in math. My grades plummeted to an average 2.0 because I had no interest in the cookie-cutter mandatory classes I was essentially forced into. I decided it would be better to hang out, get high on drugs and party all year instead.

In the summer between my first and second year, I grew to resent college culture and decided it was time to focus on learning useful things. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, but I felt that math and physics, being pivotal to everything else, were the best choices for someone who wanted to defer making a choice.

At that point, I was in the straight-A mindset, but I was someone who was very familiar with bad grades. I took an advanced mathematical physics course during that second year while I was taking Introductory Physics 1. About half way through the course, I was set on getting a 2.0 and realized that maybe taking a senior-level math class while I was still in Physics 1 might have been a shitty idea. I told the professor that I'd probably drop the class if I couldn't manage a 4.0.

I never dropped the class, and ended up getting a 3.5. Over the next three years, that would be one of the two 3.5s I got. The effort it takes to improve from bad to great is much lower than the effort it takes to improve from great to perfect. At one point, I thought I could be perfect, and eventually realized that perfect isn't worth it. Trying to be perfect at something will prevent you from being great at dozens of other things. I know this first hand and I missed out on a lot of experiences because I cared way too much about being the best in the silly little grading system.
Caltech also had an institute policy that if you aced the final, you got an A, even if you never did any of the homework.

There were students who did that (google Hal Finney), but alas I did not have that kind of wattage upstairs. I could not do well on the finals unless I mastered every last homework problem, which often involved getting help from my ever-indulgent roommate (thank you, Mark!).
My parents pushed me away from programming because they thought there was no future and I’d hate it. I didn’t listen and it turns out they were wrong on both counts. Now I can provide for my family, live comfortably, and I love the work I do.
You can compile Rust/C/etc executables to it, the stdlib might be different or nonexistant (unclear to me), WASM doesn't have a GC (yet) and you can get stacklike semantics, probably fewer security holes, the installer probably doesn't bundle other softfare.

But yes, technically speaking it's not that much different from JVM bytecode execution. Software is more consensus than breakthroughs though, so WASM might succeed where Java failed (well, kind of) because we're ready for it and the major players want it.
If you bought a new iPhone 3G in 2008, and then a new iPhone 4 in 2010, you were buying markedly different machines...

This is true. The first iPhone was a great product but 3G was a huge upgrade. Retina screens, LTE, the increase in screen sizes, OTA updates all well worth a yearly upgrade. Now the 6-8 are basically the same device with tweaks. Even the two versions of iPhone X don't make a significant case to upgrade unless you just upgrade because there’s a new phone released.
> The bubble is popping.

... or just deflating a tad before it stabilizes and waits for the next big inflation.
It is already being applied to finance. The problem is that a huge part of the market is based on emotion, so the AI makes it worse and not better.

When the proverbial knife is dropping, you don't want to catch it while it is in free fall, it will likely plunge below "fair value" in a panic.

Quants know this and most have programmed/taught their systems to pull out of the market or short when volatility goes up. It is happening right now. Liquidity since February has shriveled up.
Show HN: Crudcast – Create and Deploy a RESTful API with a Few Lines of YAML
I just created this simple library for creating a RESTful API from a yaml file with just a few lines of text:
https://github.com/chris104957/crudcast

As a full stack developer, I regularly need to build simple REST APIs quickly in order to build a web app prototype. This library allows me to do this with just a few lines of code, and I am sharing it here in case its of use to anybody else.

Effectively, this library turns a yaml file into a Flask RESTful API and implements documentation via swagger.

It's very basic right now, and still not yet documented, but I'm planning to add additional feature such as user management, permissions and the ability to insert your own code.

Thanks, Chris
A deer doesn't affect a real train that much due to the mass difference. In case of cars though they cause serious damage. If the following cars don't keep a distance they end up immediately crashing into the first one, multiplying the damage.

I don't have much experience with deer behaviour, but kangaroos will happily jump right into anything moving. They will even hit the side of your car sometimes (which they should've obviously seen coming)
I feel ya. For me though, after college I realized that I was still happier mostly alone. I think I might be a bit autistic though (seriously).
Ah! Thanks for the additional info. I found the current site to be hard to parse for someone who has never heard of this foundation.
That's only an appropriate reaction, if your skills are lacking. If your skills are not lacking, then they're likely unneeded by the people you applied to and you should find a better market fit.

The issue here is that you've made 'get this job and only this job' as your goal. That is an unrealistic goal, because it is unnecessarily tied up with a particular company. My goal when looking for work is to find an opportunity where my skills fit into someone else's need, and then milk the economic differential until such time as my skills are no longer needed, or I have a buyer somewhere else.

I suppose neither one is 'right' in the moral sense. But I think mine leads to greater happiness and satisfaction, so...
Which is why one of the conclusions that Israeli airport security had after the Lod Airport Massacre was for the need to profile people for anxiety and other psychological signs of attempting to evade security, plus other risk factors like young adult males traveling alone. Israeli airport security profiling policy hasn't taught racial profiling in decades.
There were also DSPs in some computers in those days (eg NeXT hardware). Using DSPs to accelerate GP computation tasks seemed to have much potential, which was never realised.
- RhodiumToad on Postgres
As a UX UI designer I often download premium typefaces to use on my machine. If I like how things look I may recommend the type to my clients. If I had to pay to every typefaces before I recommend it, I would never do it. In essence, my so called "pirating" is making type designers money. Has it ever occured to anyone that by allowing designers to download premium typefaces, they are making themselves MORE money? Would you rather make a few hundred bucks from me or thousands of dollars from my clients?

I mean, it's not like it hard to find a zip file of all the premium typefaces via torrent or one of the many sharing sites, what makes you think getting them from GitHub is such a terrible thing?
At least at my church growing up: a lot. Granted, the church I went to was as much a cultural institution as a religious one, but there were plenty of people who were pretty open about not believing if you directly asked them.
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A quarter of a mile is a long distance for a bus stop in a city with good transport. But sounds like your city doesn’t have enough transport density. Tokyo is pretty dense but its still not abnormal.
This article celebrates the proposition that "Almost every user will experience websites the way they were intended to be experienced." I doubt this is a good thing.

I enable Safari or Firefox Reader View. I no longer "experience websites the way they were intended to be experienced." Because it's way, way better! When will Chrome implement a reader mode? Dumb question: they barely snuck it in on Android and drag their feet everywhere else.

Browsers may be the user's ally or adversary. We know which one Chrome is. Microsoft has one hell of an opportunity here - not in a financial sense, but in a way that could greatly benefit Windows users.
Kenneth — to defend the posters in this thread, I would wager that there’s a nuance to term sheet / contract negotiation here that’s easy to be ignorant of if you’ve never been in the situation. If you haven’t been through the ringer re: fundraising, building a business it’s very easy to assume that (A) if a company is successful then (B) I can define the terms, fuck all the rest. The reality of most successfully funded startups is that there’s no one reality, and it’s easy to understand that an HN reader might think; “vesting for founders? That sounds like bullshit!” Without having gone through the logical leaps of;

- Is the opportunity real?

- Can I build a product to start testing the hypothesis?

- Can I recruit believers (customers, investors) to help test my hypothesis and make it a reality?

- Finally, do I believe there’s a hypergrowth opportunity, what are the risks associated with pursuing that, and how do I minimize them without affecting the size of the opportunity space?

Once you get to the latter step the largest risk early on is lack of access to capital, and there are a lot of ways to negotiate that materially affect hypothetical “hypergrowth” potential (valuation / dilution, liquidation preferences, you name it) which make founder vesting schedules borderline irrelevant beyond aligning cofounder expectations and making sure people are bought in. You see it in a term sheet and go, “okay, what’s this?” — forward it to legal and get back, “standard terms, bigger fish to fry, move on.”

If you’ve never put the blood and sweat in to get to this point in negotiation it’s probably easy to overemphasize the role a founder’s vesting schedule plays early on.
> Conformists are the straight C and D students.

Conformity with respect to what? As an A student, I can tell you that the conformists are in fact the A students, not the C and D students, and that would be true in a certain light. If we're preparing robots for the world, then the A students definitely make the best robots.
Snoonet people seem to be heavily involved with IRC.com stuff, which isn't very surprising considering Andrew bought snoonet. In the past there have been some very credible accusations[1] from ex-snoonet operators claiming that snoonet operators spy on users messages.

I don't know if I'd trust IRC.com.

[1] https://bpaste.net/show/932b93fc2dce

<rdv[swag]> ENOUGH
<rdv[swag]> THIS IS MY NETWORK AND I WILL RUN IT THE WAY I WANT TO RUN IT
<rdv[swag]> YOU CAN ALL QUIT FOR ALL I CARE

PIA decided to hire this person AFTER other network staff called him out for spying on users.

Oh and PIAs support site and customer DB were compromised using a deserialization vulnerability in kayako. They never bothered to publicly acknowledge this, clearly a very "privacy oriented" business.

Kayako seems to have taken down their page detailing this particular vulnerability. Their helpdesk product used to store users sessions as serialized objects in user-controlled cookies, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by just sticking an appropriate php object into their cookies.

Any automated auditing tool would've immediately discovered this bug, so clearly PIA just didn't bother.

The cookie looked like this, it's impossible to miss the serialized php object:

Set-Cookie: SWIFT_client=a%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A15%3A%22templategroupid%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%221%22%3B%7D; expires=Wed, 28-Dec-2016 23:24:13 GMT; path=/; httponly

But hey, maybe their new CTO - Mark Karpeles - runs a tighter ship ;P
I remember reading not long after the TSA (operationgrabass?) started they were advertising on pizza boxes.
That article (from just shy of two years ago) seems flawed. The premise seems to be that higher interest rates would increase the velocity of money, which would cause a lot of inflation given the current (large) money supply and low velocity. But higher interest rates reduce inflation, because their dominant effect is to cause people to borrow (i.e. create) less money, or pay back (i.e. destroy) money they've already borrowed, as soon as the interest rate exceeds the time value of the thing they borrowed the money to do.

That does increase the average velocity of money, because the money that gets not-borrowed or destroyed is the money with the least productivity, i.e. the money that was just sitting around doing nothing. The lowest velocity money. So when that money is destroyed, the average velocity of the remaining money is higher. But the average velocity of the remaining money hasn't actually changed, you've just destroyed the lowest velocity money. V times M is lower, not higher, because the dominant consequence is less M, not more V.
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along with the best talent

"Best talent" can decide for themselves what they should work on. As long as they produce results, no one cares how they do it.
Thank you for giving an answer with actual substance.
> So if I want to raise money, why can't we work out a vesting schedule at that point

You can and you'll have to work that out with your investors even if you had a pre-existing vesting schedule. But if you already have a pre-existing vesting schedule then that provides a much stronger anchor for the negotiations rather than just walking in there and saying what you think is fair or waiting for the investor to say what they think is fair. It's the same reason for giving yourself double trigger accelerated vesting in your stock purchase agreement. It doesn't (usually) legally mean anything because it needs to be re-negotiated anyway with the company that's buying you, but it provides an anchor for negotiations.

It also doesn't take any work and doesn't cost anything. And especially at the early stages where a lot of what determines the valuation of your company in an investment scenario is how much time the investors think they're going to need to spend babysitting you, I don't see any downside in erring on the side of running things in a professional way. And if you can show that you're capable of running things in a professional way, people will be more likely to defer to how you want to run the company.
You could go, as someone who's open to the possibility of spiritual enlightenment. And likes company. But if you really are an atheist, you'd probably be most comfortable with a Unitarian church. Or perhaps a Friends meeting.
So it's VLIW?
I think the assertion you make is flawed. Just because you've reached a point in time where you had experienced a great number of events and variables. Does not mean you are capable of having any will in how you're shaped into gaining a freedom or awareness that is truly your own.
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Is this really under control of the programmer? Sounds like a "we need a smarter compiler" problem...