skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume that her words meant what they said. I'm assuming you're using "group" as a euphemism for race, and in that same article Nina explicitly says race is not a genetic construct either. Does she change her stance depending on context?
If this is true then it's a huge mess:

- They used a static list of file extensions to blacklist

- This hasn't been kept up to date, powershell scripts are automatically executed

- There is no way to disable it

- Embedded files are executed within a trusted directory

I'm guessing Microsoft has to tread very lightly when messing with OLE, I bet a lot of legacy software from large Microsoft customers uses it.
Probably because past defectors have eventually admitted to fabricating stories.
"Besides that, asking any government to take money from the people, run it through the giant bureaucracy machine, and magically produce a net benefit to the people is both logically impossible and naturally never going to happen."

It doesn't matter if redistribution is inefficient in terms of dollars if it's efficient in terms of utility.

The idea that a rich person gets less from money than a poor person does is called diminishing marginal utility.
An example of this is $3,340 can buy a very rich person a purse, or it can buy a very poor person the life of their daughter.[0]

Now suppose that this government bureaucracy is terrifyingly inefficient and burns one dollar for every dollar that makes it to the malarial foundation. This would mean that a rich person has to give up 2 purses to save one life. In most people's books this is a huge gain in utility, and is why even if redistribution is inefficient[1] financially, it is very efficient when measured by utility.

[0] - Give well estimates that the malarial foundation saves 1 life per $3,433
[1] - The latest papers by the IMF actually argue that redistribution does not reduce growth.
How would the Europeans have been able to do this? They couldn't field armies in the African interior due to disease and African military resistance. Recall that the "scramble for Africa" happened after the discovery of Quinine and the invention of the Maxim gun.

I grew up learning that they traded manufactured goods (and, according to Roots and 1776, rum) to certain kings who were now able to gain more power by using European-made weapons to expand their territory and capture more prisoners. This led to a sharp increase in warfare as militaries could plunder not just wealth found in cities but bodies of civilians in villages.

Can you link to a source on your account?
"From great power comes great responsibility."

- Benjamin "Ben" Parker, 1962
>"Tesla makes money on every car sold (as they actually have a gross profit)"

You knock people for financial ignorance, then say this?

You realize that gross margin is sales less cost of goods sold? And that cost of goods does not include things like paying your employees, interest on debt used to expand, the cost of running the factories, etc etc?

I come from a retail environment where our gross margin is typically 25-35%, while our profit margin is about 2-4%. So saying that Tesla "makes money on every car sold" simply because they have "gross profit" is about as fast and loose with "profit" as you can get. Of course, nobody in the finance world would think that...
There's a more detailed discussion about mixins vs. other data loading methods on this GitHub issue: https://github.com/meteor/react-packages/issues/25#issuecomm...
Consumer Reports and Edmunds are reportedly unimpressed with the reliability on their 30,000 mile tests. More problems requiring service than most cars.
> Capitalists think that because they take on the risk, it is somehow morally justified to exploit others for wages.

I don't know what you are smoking but you better stop.

Maybe you are trying to be funny. I don't know.

Such horse shit.
It depends on how you look at it.

It turned out that Bill Gates is a kind of Robin Hood: in a sense, he robbed the rich (those who could buy a computer or who owned a software company) and gave it to the poor.

Unless you believe that richer people should be richer because they deserve it and poorer people should be poorer because they deserve it, I think that he made a positive impact on the world at this point by redistributing wealth.
Using X-Rays for better bandwidth in your data centers
The bandwidth increase is really promising. The only problem with X-Rays is that exposure to them is fatal.

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~gmporter/papers/porter-xray-tinytocs13.pdf
+1 would love to see something like this for the BDS movement. In 2015 some people still don't recognize Palestinians have rights.
This is awesome! Thanks for the tips.
It's very frustrating to discover that everything you've learned in college was either very wrong or completely wrong. This is why I tell people that parties and social time are so much more important than classes, for which I get called an idiot.

I've almost never had a bank loan. Banks have traditionally refused to lend to me. Thus we can't have me start with the FMC model; I've always lived in the ILF model.

If banks aren't reliant for central banks or others for their money, then why are there not more banks? Why don't we see poor people just set up their own bank, loan money to each other, then use that money to go and buy food and shelter?

If banks create money, then where do Bitcoin come from, and why are they valued? What happens if everyone stops using other currencies and use Bitcoin instead? And how does the world of Finance plan to stop this?
Visual User Need Research
The level of detail is impressive. What would be even more impressive would be to combine this with something like Geacron [1] to show the correct country borders for each year (instead of showing modern borders), as well as a timeline of major historical events on the side.

If you liked this and you're not aware of Geacron, you're in for a treat. Go ahead and spend countless hours on it, knowledge of history is something that's sorely lacking these days, and yet we have such amazing tools to learn it. There's also Centennia [2] for a more detailed moving map of Europe (but that's commercial).

[1]: http://geacron.com

[2]: http://www.clockwk.com/

And here's a video for the lethargic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDyJ_6N-6A
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Yeah, at that rate, I'd only be very slightly worse off than I am now. Maybe I'd lose... $10k-$20k to Horrifying Socialism. But hey, I could restart my life from a capital base of $51k.
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So basically we should have "Irish Pride", "Polish Pride", "Jewish Pride" etc. days as well? Plenty of groups have overcome oppression but don't really have pride days. Just seems a bit weird.
Hmm, authorea looks pretty interesting. Researchgate I touched on before. the last one looks more like a quick experiment than a serious attempt.

I don't think official endorsement by arXiv is necessary, what is important is to gain a critical mass. I think authorea has the right idea to give users a incentive to use the program. If possible, I would offer more free access to gain that initial traction, but of course this requires an investor with deep enough pockets to take the hit. Networking would also be key, to bring it back to the original article: if you could work with those involved here and offer your services to host all these open-access papers...

>Academia is a very conservative place; anything branded as a social network might hit a snag, especially if "pricing" or closed source recommendation systems pop up.

I think we need something similar in openness and positioning as Github. AFAIK Github did not market itself as a social platform at first, but it just made it so easy for its users that it ended up being key to its success.

I think that is the overall approach one should take, don't force the users into a pattern, that will not work and definitely not in rigid-academia. You have to guide them by a good UX, make them think they want to use your features because that is what's good for them (they're like cats in that regard).
While there have been highly credible reports of concentration camps within NK (inc. satellite photos of the complexes), I think some of the other claims against NK come from single sources and are hard to corroborate.

Which isn't to say they're untrue. Just unverified.

It is also worth considering that if the West cared about the North Korean people's health and wellbeing we would also have to discuss sanctions in that conversation, as sanctions have definitely caused deaths and suffering within NK.

All I am getting at is, when it comes to NK there is a lot of legitimate "bad" you can say about them. But there is also a lot of propaganda. It is sometimes hard to sort those two things into what is credible and what is uncredible, and defectors are going to say what we want to hear.

> Interestingly, there are several posts using the same arguments to create doubt about this and all NK defectors (something I also posted elsewhere; sorry).

And there are several posts claiming this is just categorically true without even wanting to wait for trusted experts to look at the data. I just want fact, and I believe in this instance (because of the raw data) it is likely that after an examination of the details we can determine with a reasonable degree of certainty the facts of this case.

Seems like that is the minimum we should expect before we start beating our drums of war once more.
Ask HN: How does one form business partnerships with universities?
I'm the co-founder of a small US-based startup. As an applied research company, we'd like to form a partnership with my a certain laboratory in my alma mater that would involve the following:

- Joint research projects in fundamental and applied science.
- Joint grant-writing for said projects
- Our partial funding of the laboratory
- Collaboration with other departments

Patent and publication ownership will have to be negotiated and is outside of the scope of this question.

Beyond piquing the interest of the lab's director, what is the usual process for formalizing such partnerships with the university?
There is no concept of "wallet ID" in Bitcoin transactions as transmitted over the wire. There are only input and output values in transactions (which do have an ID number).

If you know someone is connected to a given input, then you can trace them through any outputs to other parties.

So it's not quite as simple as a "wallet ID". The transactions in given Bitcoin wallet software may be connected to each other (by the mechanism I describe above), but are not necessarily connected, particularly if you generate a new address for each transaction for which you are the receiving party (and/or take additional precautionary measures). It's entirely possible to have a wallet full of untraceable transactions.
Google usually finds StackOverflow answers which is great.

I once found an answer to my question from SO, tried to upvote it but SO didn't let me because it was my own answer to the problem written over a year ago.

It seems StackOverflow works well for seniles as well.
"I'm no fan of basic income however basic income comes from tax."

Basic income does not need to come from tax. The debt that comes with creating money need not exist, and with debt-free credit you vastly reduce the need for the credit to provide a taxable return.

Initiatives such as the Positive Money campaign show that we have got options when it comes to changing how money is created, it's something I believe could work, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

http://positivemoney.org/
I'm only 27 and I too started coding before there was Google. Dial-up was barely becoming a thing in my country. This was around 1995/1996.

I got my first internet connection at home in 2001 (ADSL). Before that I would go to the library to use their internet. But it was a huge novelty and I had no idea how to use it to help myself or how to find a BBS or anything. I knew how to IRC, but I didn't know there were other programmers there.

Those 5 years were a strange strange time. I would spend my days between the text editor and its built-in help files. This was Turbo Pascal. It was great, I could look up the function signature of anything in the language and some description of what it does. Once a week I would ask my mentor about things. The rest was tinkering.

And, honestly, it was amazing. I was having shitloads of fun just playing around with different functions, coming up with my own ideas on how to use them, figuring things out just by trying them and seeing what works better instead of immediately resorting to the internet and doing research like I do now.

Sure, I'm more productive now, but I'm having a lot less fun.
Well, any tax always does two things: generates revenue and affects behaviors. When taxes are designed well, both effects of the tax will be intentional and attain some desired goal. For example, carbon taxes can be used to both raise revenue to deal with the externalities of carbon pollution, and incentivize people to pollute less. These are both desirable goals. Taxes in cases like this act as ways to 'price in' the externalities of transactions that pure market based pricing will not capture.

Taxes like this Netflix tax, however, do NOT seem to be attempting to 'price in' any sort of externality, nor influence behavior in any sort of socially beneficial way.
I could write a poligon-by-poligon (or pixel-by-pixel) description. Would it be a reproduction?
And local governments get sales tax on each car sold as well.. Figure 7% average sales tax (most cars are sold in CA - 7.5%, NY - 4.5%, MA & TX - 6.25%), and an average price of $80k; 11,500 Model Ss would equate to about $65M into state coffers for Q2 alone. Of course, many are sold overseas so discount that number a bit, but either way, states are probably happy.
Reddit is really going down the toilet.
Nope, you're completely wrong. It's not a misconception that Ulbricht wasn't convicted for the hit-man scheme because that wasn't part of the New York indictment. A person is "charged" with "counts" of specific crimes. The murder-for-hire is mentioned only as an alleged overt act in pursuance of a Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy count with which Ulbricht is charged.

Someone else has already provided the indictment in the New York court case. http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=126792875&... Nowhere in the New York indictment is Ulbricht charged with attempted murder or murder-for-hire.
The murder-for-hire charge was part of a Maryland court case in which Force and the other convicted investigator participated and which was subsequently dropped because of their malfeasance. See Count 2 of the Superseding Indictment. https://ia601904.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.238....

Other commenters have already pointed out your error. Don't compound it by trying to argue legal semantics you clearly don't understand.
What corrections? What is 'not exactly' true?
I am considered a senior engineer in my specialization and I still Google a lot of things.

There are still many things that I don't know, some things on the tip of my tongue that I almost remember and some things I use once or twice a year and forget in the meantime.

However, the more I mature as a developer, the faster I can detect horrible StackOverflow answers which technically answer the question but cause a couple of more or less sneaky issues.
Tesla is almost single-handedly dragging the world into the electric car age so I think the loan served its purpose quite magnificently. Oh, and the government got all its money back and then some. The only mistake was allowing the buyback in lieu of equity upside.
"Computers give the user great power, so it's the user's responsibility to keep software up to date instead of relying on ancient packages."

- Me, applying that logic to this situation, 1435872794 seconds since Jan 01 1970
I tested with real numbers to be curious, just tried 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.
Fun fact: Mathemetica has a method FindSequenceFunction which does exactly what you describe. In my experience, however, it generally requires at least 4 terms.

I'm not totally sure how the math behind it works (maybe it's similar to Eureqa?) but the results speak for themselves and are rather incredible.

For example, if I run FindSequenceFunction on this input:

{0, 1, 3, 8, 19, 43, 94, 201, 423, 880}

Which is the number of 0,1 sequences of length n that contain two adjacent 1s

Mathematica produces the result:

1/10 (5 2^(1 + x) - 5 (1/2 - Sqrt[5]/2)^x +
3 Sqrt[5] (1/2 - Sqrt[5]/2)^x - 5 (1/2 + Sqrt[5]/2)^x -
3 Sqrt[5] (1/2 + Sqrt[5]/2)^x)

Which, astonishingly, is correct for all the values I've tried. So apparently Mathematica understands more about this sequence than I do, and I know its definition.

Another party trick is to use the input

{-(1/6), 2/15, -(13/140), 23/315, -(83/1386), 305/6006, -(2269/
51480), 4259/109395, -(16103/461890), 30616/969969}

Which is the integral x^n (1 - 2 x)^n for x from 0 to 1, for n = 0..<10. Here it seems 10 numbers are required. This yields the solution

(2^(-2 - 3 x)
x! (Sqrt[\[Pi]] (1 + x)! +
3 (-1)^x 2^(
2 + 3 x) (1/2 (1 + 2 x))! Hypergeometric2F1[1, 3/2 + x,
2 + x, -8]))/((1/2 + x)! (1 + x)!)

Which as far as I can tell, is a closed-form solution (!) to the integral. A solution it worked out to an integral it has never seen, but only the first 10 elements in the sequence.

So it's safe to say Mathematica knows a lot more about math than I do.
I don't really care what side of the political aisle you are on, or if you think we are being taxed too much or too little in total. The fact that someone who passed a high school level econ course and gets no further formal education cannot ever hope to understand the tax code without being a true exception is a huge problem.
Sure, but in this case I was responding to the parent comment who was totally unaware of how money/credit works.

I get that this could also be supplied via the state by issuing "new" money. It's good you posted a link to this link. Thanks I'm already aware of their work.
Prince Won’t Stream 4 U (Unless You’re on Tidal, or Maybe Google Music)
Pentester. :)
I'm sympathetic to the larger goals of the project, but whenever someone starts invoking "the corporations" it's nearly always a great sign that logic has exited the building and we are firmly in the realm of emotional reasoning.
What would be good is a C Haters Handbook, like the The Unix-Haters Handbook[0], a conversational/anecdotal book of sticking points and solutions, be they "don't do that", "here's a recipe/workalike", or "this is subtle -- pay attention".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix-Haters_Handbook
Free iOS Game – Crash Course Cube – Made with Corona SDK by an Indie Developer
>""comments we see every time Elon Musk is mentioned is due to a concerted effort by short-sellers."

Oh, brother. This article is from a massive, mainstream financial news site, and is reposted all over the internet. But the short-sellers come here, to a niche tech site, to try to influence people to...what exactly?
'Cloud tax' makes some in Chicago tech community feel rained on
The commentators have only interpreted industries in terms of potential for disruption - the point however, is to disrupt it.
Judging by the few early comments and what I know about the HN community, I am guessing this will be a wildly unpopular tax here. Before just shooting this down, I would be curious what our suggested alternatives would be. As mentioned in the article this tax is an attempt to solve the problem of lost tax revenue due to local tax paying business being replaced by internet business that have no obligation to the local economy. What is a realistic option for Chicago outside of taxes like this?
I take it you've not seen any major city on St Patrick's Day.. ;)
File under: "Things I Never Wondered About".
Plenty of groups have overcome oppression, agreed. Many of the groups that march in Pride parades are not among those groups. If you want to make an argument based on ethnicity, then a close analogue would probably be black Americans -- who do have some Pride-like events, e.g. Black History Month.

I'm reminded of when people complain about Black History Month and ask, "When's White History Month, eh?" And the answer is that every month is White History Month. Because white people have more or less wiped black people out of popular history. This erasure is just as present for LGBTQ+ people.
There's nothing that says any oppressed group can't designate their own pride celebration. I think you're making a common mistake in seeing the existence of this phenomenon that is tied to a certain class (or related group of classes) of people, and interpreting that existence as being somehow normative for all similar classes of people.

It's not.
I've joked that if I only had a small program that would take my compiler errors, grab the important part (especially when C++ pukes a mountain of text) and automatically feed it into Google, my productivity would take a huge jump.

Now I'm wondering if there's a business model for it.
Aren't free()'s senseless before code exits?
So maybe something like Irish-American Heritage Month (March), Polish American Heritage Month (October), or Jewish American Heritage Month (May)?
Pride is largely a reaction to society's attempts to shame people. Plus the parades are a big party, which shouldn't need further explanation.

On the subject of the original post, that failure rate graph looks surprisingly high... at least it shows I'm not the only one it didn't work for.
What? You want the plebs at the front of the queue? You need a banking license. Go set up your own bank that is not an intermediary but instead issues dollars. I bet the cops come to see you faster than if you were murdering a person on the hour every hour.

Speak to others about bitcoin. It doesn't interest me, it's not "state" money. The state can guarantee it can pay you back by squeezing citizens. Bitcoin can't do this.

For more info go see my other link or just google. It's all out there if you look, and I'm not talking zerohedge conspiracy lunacy as demonstrated by my url to the BoE's own blog.
> am I drinking Coke or Diet Coke? Vodka or Gin?

Society didn't take MyVessyl.com really well.
This reminds me a bit of the California politicians who have floated the idea of a mileage tax to offset the reduced gas tax revenue that better fuel efficiency has caused. Not quite the same when I think about it though, as gas taxes are nearly always proposed and passed as vice taxes to encourage behavioral change. I'd be more sympathetic to a mileage tax with revenue specifically earmarked for infrastructure improvements, but I'm not hopeful about that happening.
I have no idea why you think a citation to the Maryland case involving Force is some kind of mic drop. What part of this analysis of the New York case that I wrote a month ago do you disagree with? Can you be as specific as possible? You've identified yourself in the past as a criminal defense lawyer (I am not a lawyer), so you should have no trouble knocking it down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628102
Based on the context of the question and the UI of the testing interface, fractions seem unlikely to be an intended part of the question. I likewise wouldn't bother testing unicode U+216x roman numerals.
I'm embarrassed to say, but this has happened to me too. More than once!
Google is my hive-mind.

Stack Overflow* is where I find the most real answers.

* and sister sites like programmers.stackexchange.com
An indictment is a formal charge of a specific crime. The murder-for-hire plot was alleged in the New York indictment but only as an overt act in furtherance of the actual charge of Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy.