skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. Cool.

Depending on your keyboard you might also be able to slide (with your thumb) from Command to Option. It’s certainly possible on Apple’s keyboards (I just tried).
If people are willing to pay for reposts who are we to deny them that?
>for some reason I don't understand

If anything goes wrong, there's a very high chance of you being found dead. Happened to my friend's brother.
No, the country was worse off because of its government's decision to prop up the currency in an unsustainable way. Soros just happened to be the instrument by which the market finally clobbered England over the head. It could have been some other speculator or group of speculators, and it could have played out over a longer time period (possibly at even greater loss to the British public), but it would have happened sooner or later.
⌃F2 only works after you have hit ⌃F1 once to “Turn keyboard access on or off”. If you hit ⌃F1 again, it will stop working. It’s probably not working for you because you hit ⌃F1 sometimes. You might be hitting it accidentally or because you use it to do something else – I use ⌃F1 to start recording a Quick Macro in Keyboard Maestro.
I always found David Brin's idea of "whalesong" thinking for uplifted dolphins (vs. the rational mind) fascinating to ponder on. I fully expect that different living things (plants included) experience the universe in ways that we simply are unable to imagine or really accurately describe.
I'm fairly certain my cat recognizes me through mirrors as I have a large 3-pane sliding closet-covering mirror in one room and when she sees me "in" it and I do the slow-blink, she responds just like she does sans mirror (she slow-blinks in return).

I never saw her first experience with a mirror though and have no specific indication that she recognizes herself but she is very skittish around other cats and has no negative reaction when around said large mirror, so if she notices the image of herself at all in the mirror she must associate it in a very different way than she does other cats.
We updated our FreeBSD base system to mitigate http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:10....

I took the opportunity to also update nginx to version 1.6.

I won't usually schedule time for code updates (where you might notice feature changes) since they take at most 5 minutes. For more involved updates that require rebooting the box, I allow enough time to rescue the machine with the IP-KVM, though that's thankfully not yet been necessary.
> How would content producers possibly deter copying without exerting control on the consumption hardware and software? The only answer there is standardized DRM.

That's not the only possible answer. In fact, there are already content providers (music, games) selling non-DRM'ed content. Another way of deterring copying is for the author to connect with his/her audience, participate in the community and make it morally hard for all of them to copy his work. This works and I've seen it happen. Some guys will be jerks and pirate stuff anyway (they will do this even with DRM), others will think "hey, the author is a nice person, and he/she makes something I enjoy. I'll pay for it and support him/her". This happens all the time with small-scale communities.

Of course, this requires work from the author beyond merely creating something, and it mostly works in the small scale, and he/she will probably not get insanely rich this way. But I doubt -- philosophically speaking -- that there is any inherent right to sell something in the large scale, without direct author-audience interaction, and expect police-state measures to work. I reject the assumption that everyone in the audience is a passive consumer and a thief who must be watched for their own good, and that there is no other way to handle the situation.
The trouble is, assuming that returns are essentially random and that hedge fund managers cannot beat the market except through luck - which seems to be more or less true - it doesn't matter how much you incentivise them. Giving them a bigger cut of the profits just means you come out worse on average. Now, it's certainly in the interest of hedge fund managers to convince investors that giving the managers a bigger cut is in the investors' interest, but that doesn't make it true.
Interesting. I wonder if it's a newer machine with DOS installed, or if he's still using some old 386… If it's the latter I'd worry about finding replacement parts when it inevitably breaks. If you've got an ST-506 disk, you'll never get a replacement for that!
Yes, there is something of Br'er Rabbit in giant incumbent telcos' complaining about regulations. "Please mister please don't use the complicated franchise agreement my lawyer sent you that is actually written to conform exactly to my M&Ps!"
Ok, it's been running all day while I've been working. I don't think it's going to ever complete. I'm at 1.32 TB of output from it. I can't overstate how impressed I am by that. If it completes before I leave then I'll start it again but run it through a compressor and hope I don't fill up my disk. It was large strings of //.//. so i think it should compress well and I'll upload it somewhere for someone to look at.
i think the sentiment isn't that other companies can't gather that scale of data, but that they probably are unable to tie the whole stack together and apply state of the art algorithms to it. it seems that the self driving car project is formulated as one giant online learning problem. google seems to stand head and shoulders above pretty much anyone when it comes to running production-quality, large scale, online learning algorithms.
Couldn't agree more. I'm a developer by trade, the skills of breaking down a problem into manageable chunks and coming up with a gameplan to get it done are directly transferrable over to woodworking. Woodworking is all about problem solving, coming up with a plan, and then very carefully executing that plan.

I also really enjoy the fact that you're making something with your hands. With economies as advanced as they are today, many of us have lost touch with what it's like to create something with your hands, that you can touch and use. It's hard to explain, but it's extremely satisfying.
Maybe the dollar's value will crash relative to the Yuan. If you make a bet like George Soros that the Yuan is going to rise in value, what would that bet look like?

One of the problems with the bet is that you are betting in the opposite direction from Soros. China can just print more Yuan, and suddenly Yuan decrease in value. Add to this the ridiculous levels of pointless internal investments, seemingly done to inflate China's GDP. And finally, there are severe problems with Chinese equity markets that make it scary to bet on Yuan against USD.

I think at some point in the future, China will stop having an export economy, because advances in manufacturing technology and automation will obviate the need for cheap labor. And at some other point, China will start investing sensibly in internal matters. I have no idea how to translate this into USD or CNY, but if I were in China, I would want the transition to happen gradually. A gradual transition avoids destroying the manufacturing sector overnight.
I wouldn't call myself a Soros fan, but I don't think people generally blame him (alone, at least). Most people I've heard from on this recognize the gross incompetence of those running the Bank of England, and the biggest problem anyone has with Soros is on moral grounds more than anything (exploiting incompetence to essentially take money from British taxpayers without providing them anything in return).
Hmmm, maybe, I'll disable my macro and give the original shortcut another go. Perhaps I can disable the shortcut for Turn keyboard access on or off!
I've wondered about that too.
So this is basically the worst case scenario of activist monetary policy by governments, right?
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My dog never saw a mirror in his life, he lived outdoors, and aside from a puddle, he would never have an opportunity to see his own reflection. One day I had a fullsize mirror outside. I walked my dog infront of it, pointed to it, tried to hold his head to look into the mirror, and there was absolutely no reaction. It's like my dog was looking into an empty wall. It wouldn't make eye contact with the reflection, it was simply like it didn't exist.

So, what's going on here? My dog would go crazy if another dog was anywhere within view, but nothing happened. Did my dog just understand without doubt that's a reflection, that dog is me, that human is you, there's no point in even looking at it for a second? Or did my dog just recognize it as a 2D surface, and think anything in the mirror doesn't exist, it's just a bunch of shapes moving around. Kind of like holding out a printed photo of a dog, where it would just see a blob of color on the paper, recognize there's no dog here, nothing physically present, no depth, no smell, no noise, etc.
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I can't help but think at least part of this is a bit of trolling by GRRM to his fans who (probably accurately) about his glacial writing pace.
> Isn't this trivially possible in Cryptocat for anyone who controls the server?

Yes this is a known bug since August 2013. When I found it and reported it. This was "patched" but if Mallory controls the server it is still possible. There were three ways to do this: block (which just doesn't send messages to blocked users), silent drop when invalid MAC, and silent drop when invalid tag. Block was turned into ignore and these three cases now display a warning message stating something about integrity.

I seem to not be able to find me or anyone stating that "if Mallory controls the server it is still possible". So I guess it was only said in person. Technically it's known but not publicly known :).

P.S. This was a "clamp the artery until the mpOTR protocol is finished".
There was neither a thief nor a theft. The equivalent would be if you declared you would attempt to fix the price of all Camrys. You buy a huge number of them to prop up the price. Some third party thinks this is stupid, borrows some Camrys and sells them for dollars. Eventually you run out of money and the price falls. There is no theft- it was simply a bad position for you to take in the first place.

Baring any ethics, should governments be immune from loses in open markets? Who would participate?
I take issue with the idea of "giving bicyclists any special treatment above the behavior of cars." Bicycles are not cars and treating them as such creates perverse incentives that make both biking and driving more inconvenient and dangerous. The law should align with best practices of bike - and it should not be changed only on contingent that a group of users meet some moral code.

I imagine if the bike laws in SF were updated to the proposal in the articles SF cops would be more empowered to ticket bicyclists cutting off pedestrians at red lights.
Yuan to Dollar peg was maintained because the currency is not freely trade-able, and it does not follow market economics.

Chinese government has been easing control and letting Yuan slowly inch upward in the past 10 years or so, and nothing catastrophic seems to have happened yet.
When I learned to program (back in the 80s), I learned that if you want to tell the computer to do operation X and when that's done, do operation Y, you just write both statements one after the other. If you're comfortable using for comprehensions to achieve that same goal -- that's great. To me it seems that your code simply replicates what a thread does. If you have a problem with your thread's implementation -- fix it. If you want the compiler's help -- use the compiler to write the for comprehensions, or monads for you. Personally, I don't think you should need monads for "do X then Y", and neither does Scala, by the way. Scala says that you only need them if you want to say "do X then Y, but don't use OS threads".
If Soros's bet had gone against him, he would have lost all of his investors' money and been left penniless. There would have been no bailout waiting in the wings.

The guys selling CDSs they couldn't pay out had none of their own skin in the game, and were profiting from the presence of then implicit (now very EXPLICIT) government backstops. When they lost money, the public was forced to pay through devices like the AIG bailout, TARP, ZIRP, etc.

There's no legitimate comparison between the two.
Except the author also states:

>Gross of fees, the annual return to investors over the period from 1995 to 2009 was 11.42 per cent. Management and performance fees reduced this figure by 3.79 percentage points.

to 7.63 combined from alpha and beta

>Over the same period, the S&P 500 generated an annual return of 8.04 per cent.

The author's point is that saying '%3 per year due to alpha after fees' is disingenuous since the returns aren't actually higher.
That page is missing some symbols, too, and the symbols there are images, not Unicode characters. Here is a full list of Mac key symbols I compiled:

⌘ command; cmd

⇧ shift

⇪ caps lock

⌥ option; alt

⌃ control; ctrl

↩ return

⌅ enter

⌫ delete

⌦ forward-delete

⇥ tab

␣ space

⏏ eject

↑ up arrow

→ right arrow

↓ down arrow

← left arrow

⇞ page up

⇟ page down

↖︎ home

↘︎ end

⎋ escape
I'm not going to debate whether there is a general morality to his actions or many actions of those in finance. What I was stating was that many people do not go into these lines of work and/or do things, not because they are incapable or because they do not see the same opportunities but because they think they are unethical and immoral.

This may help you, and the original gentleman I responded to in understanding that its not necessarily a case of having the stronger ability but sometimes a case of having a weaker conscience.
"Volunia", the search engine he worked on a couple years ago, was... peculiar. The marketing point was that whenever you browsed you were able to chat with other people viewing the same site. How did they achieve that? Clicking a link in Volunia would open the desired site in a fullscreen iframe.

The result was that

1) you would end up on white pages for any site that blocked iframe access

2) you would loose the navigation bar, since the domain was stuck to Volunia.com

3) they were able to see your whole navigation history since you were browsing inside their iframe.

In a second iteration they proposed a Firefox extension to avoid the above problems but... who would install an extension to use a search engine? How could you explain it to non savvy users?

A positive thing was the SimCity like interface (you could see a site like a building linked by roads to other buildings). That was funny at first, yet I can't remember what they wanted to achieve with that.
We do frown on screwing innocent people, and it is a shitty thing to do.

Who screwed Britain? If you're going to tell me that it was George Soros, I'd like to hear why you're holding him more responsible than e.g. Helmut Schlesinger, or the reporter who paraphrased Schlesinger's quote and sent the market into a panic?

edit: Or as loso pointed out in a comment above mine, is George Soros more responsible than the members of the British government who put the pound sterling in the terrible position to begin with?
Is there any way to use this as a consumer replacement to things like PayPal/Venmo? It can be really frustrating to have to wait a few days for payments to clear.
Microsoft - .Net, C#/F#, SQL Server, ASP.Net, IIS, Windows Server

It's surprising that I now work in Arc/Racket on FreeBSD.
I'm sorry that more people won't see this comment. I only noticed it because I was taking one last look through old threads for replies.

Fortunately, there was at least some good discussion of the substance here!
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Google is generally capable of thinking long term. The major broadband providers in America are incapable of thinking beyond the next few quarterly statements--otherwise they would not have gotten themselves into this mess.
That's quite surprising - Amish furniture tends to go for a massive premium!
This is interesting, but IMHO, will not be as useful in most cases of Parkinson's disease.

1) Parkinsonian tremor is typically at rest or with distraction. When you actually engage in purposeful action, such as using a spoon, the tremor usually dampens or goes away.

2) The main problem in Parkinson's is actually "bradykinesia" or slowness of movement. A more accurate term, in my opinion, is slowness of motor planning, that is, the brain systems cannot process the information require to, and then generate, a plan of movement for the limbs fast enough. The spoon won't fix that.

3) Parkinsonian and other forms of tremor do have relatively safe and effective treatments in medications or deep brain stimulation implantation.

My thoughts are - this spoon, if it works and isn't a mechanical nightmare, would be useful in a limited subset of cases where the tremor resembles another condition known as essential tremor, where the tremor instead is an intention or action tremor, where purposeful activity amplifies the tremor. Even so, these would only be in those patients who cannot get deep brain stimulation surgery for some reason. The reason being that DBS, while brain surgery, once done, is the more elegant solution. I.e. your tremor goes away, rather than requiring a superficial "hack" like this spoon.
I'm very confused about this.

Does that mean you should NEVER pay anyone by cheque since it has your account number printed on it?

Why is the USA one of the only first-world countries that have such prevalent usage of cheques, but it's seen as so dangerous to disclose a bank account number?

What can someone do with just a bank account number, and why isn't that problem being fixed?
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Surprised to see amazon here. Mmm. You know if I shop for stuff all of a sudden everyone seems to know. Every website will show me related ads. Now that I think of it..
The article's first sentence:

> In 1992, George Soros brought the Bank of England to its knees.

You're right that many well-informed people don't blame Soros alone, but the sentence above pretty well encapsulates the mythology surrounding this story. It would be more accurate to say: "the day George Soros hastened the collapse of the ERM."
Command shift [ ] works with almost everything that has tabs including safari, chrome, terminal, Xcode and sublime. (those are the ones I use it with).
The most glaring error in this article is that the author is talking about the hedge fund industry as a whole, but he uses the S&P 500 as a benchmark. Hedge funds that don't invest in equities are not, and should not be, benchmarked to the S&P 500.
How do you plan to make offering DRM-free content compatible with overlay ads? Are you suggesting having the ads actually baked into the video stream?
My one gripe is they took away Dictionary definitions as first results from Spotlight (command+space). I'll look into using the Dictionary shortcut mentioned in by the OP but I often used the Spotlight way for words I wasn't looking at on my screen.
In a somewhat related note with bicycle laws, what is the best way to deal with bicycles filtering? Bicycles can filter at a light/stop sign to get up to the front. However, they then hold up the cars since the bicycle should be treated as taking the entire lane and the cars have to wait for the other lane or an empty turn lane, etc to pass them. This is exceptionally bad on roads with speed limits more than 20/25 mph, causing severe back ups between lights and stop signs. This is just another issue that causes people to rage about cyclists.
The problem is that your sarcastic position sounds pretty good to me.

The product is naturally high margin because there is a small, niche market. The first mover has a massive advantage, if they do a good enough job. It's unlikely that a copycat competitor would challenge someone in a good position, unless they could provide something cheaper or better.

Patents don't change this, but they do allow the patent holder to do a poor job, that doesn't fully reach people who need this product, and allows them to stifle competition who might be able to develop the idea further.
Does an increase in productivity lead to an increase in number of bugs?
> Legal or not, a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions.

You're talking about the Chancellor of the Exchequer who decided it was rational to keep pouring money into the other side of the trade Soros was making, I hope.
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I was going to buy a Kobo to read technical documents, but then I saw they don't support non-DRM pdf. No sale.

The last e-reader I bought four years ago was cheap, with atrocious touch screen response, but it would display my PDFs. After it broke, I just went back to my laptop. If someone would like to recommend something, I'd appreciate it. Something with the physical traits of an e-ink Kindle without the 1984 ecosystem.
Is that really that difficult? The alternative is, of course, not having him in solitary confinement for 27 years. It's not that difficult to allow some level of social interaction while still preventing violence.
In some ways, this was a comparatively cheap way for the UK to discover that fixed exchange rates between economies must force the pressure into current account deficits instead; such as has happened to Portugal/Ireland/Greece/Spain. Falling out of ERM kept the UK out of the Euro, which was beneficial in the long run.
I'd look at the technology behind "Smell O Rama": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_scent_technology

It's a gimmick they used in the early 50's, adding associated smells to movies. I'm not sure about on-the-fly smell creation though.
So it's not native code? Interesting.
What speed is your residential internet connection and how much do you pay for it each month?
I've never heard of banks completely blocking a company from attempting a charge. That's good, thankfully I've not experienced that.
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> [authors] can't deter [copying]. They can reduce it (i.e. turn part of the pirates into paying customers). The way to do it is old and well known, yet many fail to remember it - treat customers with respect (and not as criminals by default). Establish more direct relation with your users, don't be a jerk, be user friendly and so on.

I can't tell you how much I agree with you.

I'm puzzled that so many people find this idea surprising. It's already proven to work. Of course, it doesn't work if your goal is to get rich, and it doesn't work for faceless corporations.
$1 fee per transaction. Done entirely by computers. In huge volumes.

There is no reason that entirely electronic transactions should cost more than fractions of a penny to process. Any justification for this cost is complete bullshit.
How do you define "Java Enterprise shop"?

Because I've worked in some that produced quality code, but I have certainly worked in some that did not. 100k may be an exaggeration, but not much more than by an order of magnitude.

Are you perhaps defining "enterprise" in such a way that necessarily excludes the possibility of poor code?
The few times when I've been able to live with virtually no externally imposed time schedule, I found that the length of my sleep-wake cycle lengthened by about an hour every sleep-wake cycle.
1) > Hedge funds that don't invest in equities are not, and should not be, benchmarked to the S&P 500

Why not?

2) So what DO you benchmark the industry as a whole against?
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