skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh there is no question if you bring paper records in to the mix there are enormous opportunities. I worked at a mom & pop restaurant for several years. In the attic of the restaurant were stacks of boxes with credit card receipts dating back to the mid-80s at least. While the chances of many of these cards being valid now are significantly reduced, there is always that slight chance. I have a credit card from the early 90s that the number has not changed (kind of nice in a way as I can recite the number by memory now).

On the flip side though, to some extent, I would consider these records safer than a website. At least to gain access to these records you would have to physically enter the building, climb in the attic, sift through hundreds of boxes, gather the info you want, and then leave. This would also require you be in the general location of the building and have knowledge of the records being there. Hacking a website database from across the globe is a whole lot easier, so you I would say that their existing paper system is more secure to a degree.
And why should it be?
Title is misleading. Please add "per capita" !!!

Stockholm is so over-hyped. Yes, there is a lot of engineering culture, but there is so little risk capital available at the bottom is it truly laughable.

Furthermore, I don't see many of these unicorns putting a lot back into the ecosystem in terms of investment, social capital, or outreach.

Sweden's needs her of "Paypal mafia [1], Facebook Mafia [2], Trilogy Mafia, and Dellionaires [3] if this startup startup ecosystem is to really thrive.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

[2] - https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/facebook-mafia/

[3] - http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/dell...

(edit) so more thoughts
If Satoshi is Wright, and he really wanted to remain nameless, he almost certainly would not have shown up to the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference. Poor op-sec.

That said, the issue with outing him is that he could hold more sway over the direction of BTC than if it were a truly decentralized currency. Not sure this if that's in the best interests of BTC.
Agreed. It's very strange that the article doesn't mention any of the very real recent scientific advancements in this space. I expect better on HN :).
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Why, because Gwern and Greenberg wrote it? Give it some time to pan out before you jump to any conclusions.
Your IP and the hostname of the website you're connecting to isn't encrypted over HTTPS anyway.

AFAIK website hostname is visible when using SNI.
Apple doesn't let custom browsers use anything other than their WebView component for rendering, and WebViews are pretty limited when it comes to modifying page content.
Capitalism created the Beatles :-)
(Hi. :))

It depends a lot on what you're doing, and how much data you're processing. If we go by the premise that you're processing more data locally than you would in a web app (because you don't need to worry about the latency and you don't have a server to do the pre-processing and filtering of the data before it reaches the client), then actual VM performance is more significant. The last time I looked at any profiles of browsers on Gmail or FB, JIT'd code actually accounts for several of the most expensive functions (and you will notice if you disable the JIT). JS performance does matter—even if DOM performance dominates in the case of the common website (and note that Mozilla has actually been doing quite a lot of interesting work around teaching the JS VM more about the DOM, including rewriting parts in JS, which allows JIT optimisation to happen).

It's definitely true that it's easier to write non-performant code using HTML/CSS (and <canvas> and WebGL don't really help here—because it's hard to ensure data gets correctly passed to accessibility layers), but I think that the majority of mobile apps are simple enough for it to not be a concern.
Agreed but the emotional hurdle is huge. A 50 - 100MW travelling wave reactor (TWR) to provide baseline for a city would be straight forward bury the reactor, set up what is essentially a geothermal plant on top of it, safe, clean, and it disposes left over waste!

Completely technologically sound, safer than any other power alternative, and impossible to fund, license, and deploy due to primarily emotional fear of the words 'nuclear reactor'.
Censorship! of course, why didn't we think of that before! lets limit the hate speech and create safe spaces for everyone so that pesky reality doesn't come and muck things up.

Goes to show how dumb some smart people can be. Technology isn't the be-all-end-all solution to all problems; and as Eric is well familiar with, it makes censorship and surveillance much, much easier.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
> However, I'm a really good programmer.

How do you know?
I actually quite like those paintings. Maybe not worth $44m (to me, maybe to others), but probably a lot more than paint + canvas.

From afar, it seems that being an artist is actually sort of similar to being a developer/entrepreneur. Let's say you're a technically able artist. You can create anything. But what do you actually deliver? How do you create "value" (i.e. a piece someone, somewhere, loves)

As a comparison: there are plenty of developers who can reverse engineer device drivers. But knowing which driver to actually reverse engineer, that can actually deliver value to someone, that's the tricky part.
"whiteboard hazing"

there are two types of whiteboarding questions. The kind that's a perfectly reasonable thing to ask (i've had people ask me to develop some simple system... which I think is reasonable, because i'll do that as part of the job)

but then there's the solve x algorithm questions. Which ultimately is an exercise in memorization. At this point I've just accepted that i'll have to do that.
Judging by the trainwreck that the debate over the change in block size ended up being, maybe Bitcoin could use a benevolent dictator.
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You can clearly see the spike in this graph[0] (scale it down to Dec to see more detail). These graphs[1] show that it was limited to IPv4.

[0] http://a.root-servers.org/metrics.html

[1] http://k.root-servers.org/statistics/ROOT/monthly/
How Much Memory Does a Data Scientist Need?
How exactly does this happen?
If this is the reason, you were probably better off if you couldn't see the obvious most recent sort.
The tweets are tagged with time stamps so when the client displays them it should sort them in chronological order if you want to. One can imagine other orders such as relevance.
If your Twitter client doesn't work the way you want, switch to another client.
I would submit that posting this drivel on HK is unnecessary.

I'm all for real Bitcoin news, even about whats-his-face in Japan or interviews with old cypherpunks. Or new forks or new coins or ponzi schemes or silly lost hard drives even.

But this article is unfounded clickbait nonsense. Whomever the real SN is has done good security work on their identity and won't be found unless they want to.
It doesn't even really solve the problem, because a victim is still injured or dead somewhere.

Biometric locks were a better idea that got shot down by the NRA. At least that one had the potential to reduce gun deaths, certainly far better than the current solution of "get everyone moar guns".
Consider skis with pyrotechnics strapped on for a show. It could happen and we can all sleep well tonight knowing that our medical industry has a way to keep track of these incidents when they do happen.
This was me for a long time in DTLA, my only choice was AT&T for $50 a month for 8/1. Now I have Time Warner and I pay $55 for 200/20. Much happier.
Music and cognitive enhancement are both cool. But I can't imagine "DJ in my head" as a key driver. Automation of learning stuff seems far more useful.
Thirded! Peter is awesome, have referred him to many people with great success.
I know. Performance to xxHash can be inferred by the comparison to CityHash that is in the article.
Worth noting that the main source on this is Gwern (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern). Gwern, care to comment?
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You can read the original announcement with the list of goals here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platf...

there used to be a website - arewemobileyet.com which listed the API's that we identified as necessary to make FxOS possible.

You can find it in web.archive - http://web.archive.org/web/20140401194921/http://arewemobile...

We successfully standardized most of them! :)
"You're comparing an OS independent language to an entire operating system?"

No, I am not comparing Java, but JVM. JVM is a platform, so it should have insight what's happening on it, don't you think? Whether this insight comes from the platform (JVM or z/OS) or the underlying system (native host OS or mainframe) is irrelevant - you probably want both (and in z/OS you get both).

Whether Java (the language) is clunky is irrelevant - z/OS has lot clunkier languages on it (application development is huge pain on z/OS compared to JVM), and I still think z/OS beats JVM for large/complex/maintainable systems. ;-) (Basically for the same reason - more mature.) z/OS has many logging and tracing functions, at different granularity, some of them are assisted with mainframe hardware. I don't see how JVM could beat it, but I may be wrong.
At some point (according to Wikipedia, the start of the fourth season), Monday was replaced with a new girl, named Tuesday (naturally).
Absolutely right. Dan Callahan's statement on why:

"with Mozilla Labs somewhat sudden dissolution, we were unexpectedly asked to demonstrate traction and commercial adoption that simply wasn't there."

Commercial adoption? What does that even mean in the context of MoCo? What does MoCo sell? And 24 months? Makes no sense, even for MoCo. Google is consistently a small player in the Cloud Computing Platform space. Their response: "we're not going away." MoCo has scores of millions in the bank. I'm still baffled.
Ookla's Speedtest (no flash)
Dinosaurs evolved much faster than previously thought
Looks like Smart Feature Phones won't materialize :( https://youtu.be/JIiIjjIsuzc

Though they aren't quite saying that, I guess there'll be no new Firefox OS Smart TV's, too? http://www.techradar.com/news/television/6-best-smart-tv-pla...
Look into that, my building on 7th & LA now offers TWC. It took a while though.
If this turns out to be true, it could mean a lot or nothing, depending on what Wright decides to do. The big questions would be, a) does he have the private keys to Satoshi's 1.1MM BTC stash or has he lost them and b) will he decide to be actively involved in Bitcoin development/governance.

The Bitcoin market has mostly been assuming that Satoshi's bitcoins are lost forever, and the price reflects that. If it turns out Wright can still sell those Bitcoins it would have a dramatic- but probably not cataclysmic- effect on the price.

The other question would be if he wanted to involve himself in Bitcoin development. If he really is Satoshi, his voice would carry a lot of weight on big, divisive issues like block size. For better or worse.
I'll believe it when I see something here:
https://blockchain.info/fr/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SL...
Fdroid apps work well for me. I did not install gapps at all.
Can't even skype anymore from my home, too unreliable
Speaking as someone who has done a lot of C++ work with nothing more than Emacs, I don't think there is any particular value or virtue in using only the sort of tools that were available in the 80s. The problem of finding out exactly what sort of thing you are dealing with did not start with auto (the elements of expressions have never been labeled with their type), and I think better tools are the way to the solution. C++ is actually a good language for this, as as little as possible is left to be decided at runtime.

With regard to the hovering issue specifically, there can be a great deal of visual clutter from type names that is a hinderance to understanding most of the time; now you only have to see it when you need it. That is only the start, however; a decent IDE should, for example, make it easy to go from there to the declaration of the type, should you want to.
It would make filtering out malicious requests easier, which would improve performance for people whose machines weren't botnetted.
Which email are you referring to? None of the phrases in the second email (starting with "The nature of this moniker") appear in any of Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.
I don't think software is all that exceptional in this regard. Any profession has certain visible achievements that distinguish its world-class members. For software, it's cool open source projects; for chefs, it's creating a great restaurant; for doctors, it's publishing influential novel research.

In each of these fields, the visible achievement isn't exactly the same as great performance in the field. You can get unlucky in scientific research and end up with nothing publishable; you can cook mediocre food but market it really well; or you can create the latest trendy build system instead of just mastering Gnu Make.

The misleading thing may be the assumption that most successful open source software projects are done by unpaid hackers on their own time. Perhaps that used to be the case, but many of the hot open source projects in recent history -- from Rails to Docker to React to Swift -- are built on the clock by successful programmers employed at big and small companies. But software is unusual in that serious contributions can be made by people without any institutional support.
I'm really not too sure why you're being downvoted. I think there are a number of people who agree that outing him isn't necessary or valuable. A man trying not to be in the public eye deserves as much.
The culture of the Bay Area is also much more "left-leaning" than that of much of the US. The Bay Area likely helps creativity and innovation in other ways as well, as it has a ingrained culture that favors outsiders and diversity (e.g. diverse ethnic and gay cultures), reducing the barrier for other kinds of "outside" thinking.

This would support your thesis. However the US is also more entrepreneurial in other areas as well and its large government budget as well as domestic market helps indigenous large manufacturing (e.g. aerospace) in a way that few other countries can match.
You would need to sign up with one or more of the major transit providers, such as Cogent, HE.net, Level 3, XO, or similar. (Or someone who resells such service.) You'd obtain an agreement to hook up that fiber to the Internet (such as via a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-me_room that the fiber leads to), and pay for the amount of transit you use (commonly billed either by the actual amount of traffic or by the 95th percentile of bandwidth usage). Then you'd need all the necessary equipment to get that connectivity to the various customers. And you'd need either a block of IP addresses to hand out or a NAT infrastructure.

(That leaves out all the non-connectivity-related issues you'd also have to handle, such as billing, cutting off service, collections, abuse reports, legal notices/investigations, support requests, etc.)
I'm the founder (twitter @arrsingh) at distelli. Happy to answer any questions.
This also depends on how clear the company is about the hiring process. A lot of companies have started using the coding projects before the resume screen, and then also throwing in an all-day whiteboard session. So when someone's been burned before, they're going to do a 180 when a company replies, "Do this project."
Anyone know the status of the smart feature phone os they were talking about a few months back? I can't find anything on it but am interested in the project.
OK, I'm clearly out of touch about water-ski shows and fire.

http://www.waterskishowsinc.com/?page=About%20Us
In addition to what's been said, I think that ML/AI, especially AI, attract people interested in the Big Question and aren't exactly detail people.
Uh, yeah. That company sucks.

[edit: well, their interviewing process sucks.]
Looking through the getting started, one of the instructions is to run geth with the following flags. `--rpc --unlock 0 --rpccorsdomain "*"`.

Please be very careful with these two flags as they will allow any malicious javascript on any page you browse to empty your ethereum wallet.

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/tag/0.3.6

Also, this looks really cool.
So, to bill for Medicare and Medicaid services you need to use ICD ( https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/ProviderResources.... ). ICD-10 is effective October 1, 2015. Here is the quick start pdf https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/Downloads/ICD10Qui...
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And this is how it ends....
Actually it has, which is probably why they are avoiding it. There are many broadband choices in SF, some with pretty high speeds, some totally wireless.

My guess is that the city, being as regulatory happy as it is (and being specifically anti-Google thanks to the bus fiasco), is not interested in working with Google to make fiber happen.

You'll notice San Jose is on the list, and that actually includes a whole bunch of suburbs too (except notably Cupertino).
Bring back Brendan Eich ?
You didn't say anything about unit tests. Those tend to be the technique that proponents of dynamic languages promote for catching errors earlier.
Chris Sacca (of Twitter / Uber investing fame) spent months / years of his life working for Google trying to get San Francisco to agree to install free, city-wide WiFi paid for by Google. It didn't happen.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-stalling-Wi-Fi-plans-...
HTC Vive VR release date announced, DK2 coming
It wasn't a trainwreck; it worked exactly as it should.

Bitcoin is not a system for those that favor changing the rules once the game is in play.
so the more convictions, the more corrupt?
Is Coursera only for introductory courses?
I don't want to spend fortune doing masters.
However, I want to learn some new things. I try finding courses in Coursera but most of them are introductory courses and doesn't really go into depth. Even the specialization. Are there other alternatives?
No. This is not an advantage.

Any average developer can probably write something in Ruby/Rails at least 2x faster(in developing time) than the best clojurist alive if the startup in question is a web app / mobile app. And this matters for a startup, time to market.

If the startup has a very complex business domain, needs some deep data science to be done, machine learning or some sort of thing, it might be a good indicative that they use clojure, but there's like 10.000 things that you should care before if they use clojure.

There's a lot of companies that are about raising money, picking a weird stack, hiring a bunch of hipsters and then running out of money and closing operation. I know people who are programmers that know that the company product sucks and just stick to the company because of the tech stack. As non-founding engineers don't get that much stock options it seems a good idea to work for a company with some fun stack that pays well enough even though you think the product is shit.

As you aren't a programmer, you should look for companies where you see that the business makes sense. Tech tools rarely end up as a big market advantage.

What makes all the difference is having great managers, board, C-level, culture... and of course, a decent business model. With a competent team, good business model the team will apply a tech stack that is good enough to solve the situations at hand a move the company forward. And this won't evolve just one programming language, just as you can't create a big company just doing advertising, or just having only finance people. You need all kind of skillsets and this also applies to tech.

Clojure? Last concern.
The Muppets and Sesame Street is children's programmable watchable by parents. Something families could watch together. Pure genius.

Hunt's Elmo character broke that. As a parent, that's what ruined Sesame Street.
I haven't done profiling of firefox os on a crappy device...

but my suspicion is that it really is as simple as: even really-well-optimized html/css/js that needs to go through a browser core will suffer performance-wise compared to something with 10-15 less layers of indirection. (Like a traditional windowing toolkit.)

The Android UI toolkit isn't exactly efficent (ha!), but still seems to beat Firefox OS on super-low-end hardware judging from the reviews I have seen.

The internal windowing toolkit and java-like mini language with a VM that we made for Opera Mini 5/Opera Mobile 10 with both J2ME and C VM implementations was like 3x faster than the Android UI toolkit with Dalvik for typical windowing tasks. Without any super-fancy optimizations...
They probably just figured out the Tessier-Ashpool reference by Googling it, which would explain why they didn't recognize the passage from Neuromancer.
This was interesting at first glance - it's very approachable in it's
simplicity, and I can see it having an impact on the typical Google app user.
Something like this could be a useful resource for people who may not think
about the consequences of their dependence on proprietary cloud apps. I think
most people don't think about the fact that Google (or any other cloud app
provider) can and does shutdown their apps or significantly change the Terms of
Service, usually with very limited options to migrate their data elsewhere.

FOSS cloud apps aren't subject to arbitrary shutdowns or unwelcome changes to
the ToS. This is a huge, obvious advantage that most cloud app users don't
realize. I think supporters of FOSS cloud apps should have something concrete
to point to that shows the fragility of proprietary cloud apps.

However, I would not use this website as a reference for the following reasons:

- No citations! It reads as if it is pure opinion without any citations.

- It's hard to find evidence for some of the claims. Google+ shutting down? Is
that pure speculation?

- No place to discuss app status in the app. Comments or a wiki should be
offered.

- Closed source, no way to send pull requests for updates/corrections.

The page has a prominent link to the author's Patreon. This comes across as
litte more than link-bait to draw traffic to the Patreon page, and a hit-piece
on Google. The potential benefit to cloud app users gets lost.

(edit: formatting)
He seems obsessed with being Satoshi. And the article itself said he made edits to insert bitcoin related entries into past writings. I'm sure he's a very smart guy but he's also one of the last people I'd think was Satoshi.
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Children under two aren't even supposed to watch television.

> Television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age 2. A child's brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens.

https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-ini...
Optional is great, but it would be far more powerful if types not wrapped in Optional were guaranteed to not be null.
Microsoft Edge 25 behaves same.
Nevada Is Getting a Hyperloop Test Track
Resolved: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/15025
So there's several different questions here:

* whether machines will be capable of composing some kind of appealing music. This is already possible, and likely to get better/broader.

* whether machines will get so good at this (on demand, no less) they will crowd out contributions that are largely human-crafted. This seems uncertain to me, maybe more likely at the commodity and conceptual ends of the market, maybe less so in craft-niches.

* whether music is really a personal experience or a social one -- or, since it's obviously both, to what degree people want both things when.
Still fearful of moving your company to the cloud? Consider this