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Re:BMW unveils car sprayed with Vantablack on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:47PM (#20843031)
> By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this paint will not make its way into that hands of Anish Kapoor.

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/12/anish-kapoor-stuar...

Re:Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:05PM (#20842709)
You don't do it by selling TWTR one minute before the hack.

You use your brain a little. You prepare your positions months in advance, and hedge out market risks.

You can also use less regulated brokers in far away places and trade TWTR derivatives.

Re:Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:52PM (#20842606)
There are millions of traders trading randomly (see r/wsb). Good luck spotting the one belonging to the hacker.
Re:Jack Dorsey has account hacked on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:50PM (#20842584)
Instead of Twitter then you just hack CNN and post a story that war was declared. Same thing.
Re:Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:48PM (#20842567)
The hacker could have said he is stepping down from TWTR because of massive financial fraud, and make money by trading TWTR.
Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money from Machine Learning? on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:46PM (#20842545)
Get a ML job.

Or predict and trade bitcoin.

> copying and uploading the libraries is actually illegal

Is it through?

If I'm uploading a library to virustotal to check if it's a known piece of malware, am I breaking the law if it was clean?

Re:Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:41PM (#20840744)
Important point:

> Our work so far has primarily been on general feedforward NNs. Our investigations have not yet involved much on specialized networks such as convolutional NNs (CNNs) for image classification, recurrent NNs (RNNs) for text processing, and so on. Though we intend to adapt our ideas to these frameworks, we view them as separate, orthogonal issues.

And steak is more expensive than french fries. People still eat steak. Cost is not the only metric.
Then definately check his twitter, he is quite a figure:

https://twitter.com/nntaleb

Does suicide count?

> The terrifying timeline of how a Colorado teen ate a pot cookie and then jumped to his death

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...

> The new study analyzed thousands of cannabis-triggered emergency room visits in the greater Denver area, and found that edibles induced a disproportionate number of pot-related medical crises. Edibles were also more likely than inhaled pot to cause severe intoxication, acute psychiatric symptoms in people with no history of psychiatric illness and cardiovascular problems.

> He also noted that the only deaths in Colorado that have been definitively attributed to cannabis involved edibles, and those deaths were surprisingly violent. In all three incidents, including a murder and a suicide in 2014 and another suicide in 2015, the pot users exhibited extremely erratic behavior after consuming edibles, according to news reports and trial testimony.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/well/eat/marijuana-edible...

Re:Misinterpreting hurricane forecasts on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:49PM (#20833512)
Now go to the NYT main hurricane article and what do you see? The same misleading map that this article says people don't understand instead of the better wind speed probability alternative:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/hurricane-dorian-flori...

So basically like today.
How exactly does that help? A silent alarm button was probably pushed by an employee anyway.

And whatever cameras the bank had, they were already recording.

Re:Underground line to heat up north London homes on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:45PM (#20824838)
Is this actually efficient?

I've read before that this kind of low-temperature heat (low-grade heat) is not very useful. This is why district heating water is running at 90C+.

Can the mentioned heat pump use this low-grade heat to raise water to high-grade temperatures?