skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that, unlike gold, dollar (or any fiat currency for that matter) has no intrinsic value, only the value we give it in our minds as average of our greed and fear.

Exercise for the reader:
take a look at this plot [1] and this plot [2] and guess which year US government stopped using gold standard for dollar.

[1] http://stooq.pl/q/?s=xauusd&c=100y&t=l&a=lg&b=0

[2] http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/50e77df8ecad049b560...
Also I wanted to add, if you are having problems with testing in golang, I've found great success with Gomega, Ginkgo and Agouti. They are fantastic libraries
Floppy disk drives, needle printers, 56k modem, flatbed scanner play music
At least you got that far... using Google's Chrome to see Google's Terra Bella first time resulted in an "Aw, Snap" crash in Chrome before I got to the scrolling. Now I get there, but not without Chrome's "Rats! WebGL Hit a snag!" error.

From the sounds of it, it would have been more painful if everything worked.
"Because what you wrote isn't a promise: it's a condition variable."

Yes, I'm sort of cheating, because what the original blog post implemented isn't really promises either. It's hard to "really" implement promises in Go because whereas in Javascript you're implementing a different "color" language, in Go you're simply re-implementing the same color again. (And quite poorly, given Go's very weak/simple type system.) If you do good software engineering and remove redundancy, promises simply collapse down to conditions, or disappear entirely.

I've tweaked my post to clarify I'm propagating the original post's usage.

The point I'm really shooting for is that you can avoid a significant amount of, but not all of, interface{} usage when you're trying to use something like that Promise by writing the logic in an object, then composing that in to another type-safe struct. You can not, of course, implement true generic containers that way.

I dislike not having true generics in Go, but I have found I like the composition instead of inheritance default quite a bit, once I adjusted. I think there's room for another new language to adopt that default and make some progress in spaces where Go simply refuses to play.

Re: threads, I agree completely. What I care about is having a stack, so I can do structured programming even in my "async" code, not the hardware representation of the threads. Really need to finish up my post on that someday.
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YC funded their AJAX calendar app (Kiko) in 2005, before Google Calender or JQuery came out. Indeed, in the blog post where John Resig announced that he was working on JQuery, the first comment is by the founder of Kiko (who later went on to found and sell Twitch):

http://ejohn.org/blog/selectors-in-javascript/

DropBox was also "hard tech" when it came out in 2007; it was file storage, but it was file storage that worked by reverse engineering the operating system so it could hook into Windows Explorer, Finder, and whatever Linux file manager you were using.
Same with most sharks. They have to bite you to know what you are, most shark attacks are quick strikes and then they let the victim go.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176955
The American variant of the Jetta was recently a stripped down cheapened version compared to the jettas sold elsewhere.They even removed the multilink rear suspension for the US model.
Can you explain what steps you would take to learn a new subject? For instance, lets say you wanted to learn quantum mechanics - Where would you start? How would you study and check your work? Etc.
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> The truth is that a large number of Americans believe that the FBI should have access through consumer encryption.

This is not a democracy, this is a republic. We should hold our elected (and appointed) officials to higher standards than we hold our voters. Just because our public is uneducated does not excuse the elected government taking advantage of an uneducated public to seize powers they did not have before.
Unsupervised Learning with Even Less Supervision Using Bayesian Optimization
Alas, the article is behind a paywall, so its hard to find out what the full context is, but there is at least one thing I can say.

Usually when a statistical physicist says that they have "solved" a model, it means that they have obtained an (asymptotically exact) formula for the full partition function or free energy as a function of the parameters, including temperature. At any finite temperature one will typically have that the full partition function includes contributions from all possible assignments on the spins (corresponding to all possible true/false assignment in the SAT problem), so that actually computing the partition function looks more like solving a weighted #SAT problem. It is this full problem that was solved by Ising in the general 1D case and by Onsager in a special class of 2D cases. However, if one consider the limit in which the temperature goes to zero the contributions of the terms in partition function with energy larger than the ground state will become negligible. In this limiting case it may turn out the full partition function becomes a number that is a function of the smallest possible number of clauses violated in the formula. When no clauses are violated one is in the ground state and the free energy is zero, which give the mapping to SAT.

If this were the end of the story then it would seem, as you have pointed out, that there is nothing new about the result. However, it needs to be emphasized that this is an approximation, and one that you would only expect to be reasonable at low temperatures. It is typical that, in addition to the ground state, one needs to account for states near to the ground state that give some contribution. There are different techniques (in the wein of Taylor expansions) to handle this in different situation, but AFAIK none of them work in every situation, and certainly aren't universal in the sense suggested in the article. So if there is a proof that all Ising models in the low energy regime are basically the same and can be solved with general these SAT-like techniques this is a new result.
> Are the complaints your familiar with over the lack of more powerful testing tools like quickcheck?

Yes but not just that, the stdlib test library is missing basic functions you will find in other testing libraries (things like equality asserts etc).

It is of course adequate. But its certainly not great.
I thought HTML/CSS was part of the design profession, and not computer-science leaning software development.
Are you on the cool list?
I live in Taiwan. It's not bad. They really appreciate freedom of speech here. Data security and privacy go hand in hand with that. They're a bit behind in some ways technologically (old-looking image-based websites), and salaries are pretty low, but if you can freelance then you can get by. People, food and weather are great. There's also tons of opportunity to advance technology here.

I did leave the US 5 years ago with some idea in mind that our government doesn't know how to govern and guide technology. I was fed up with reading about small software companies getting pummelled by patent trolls, so I jumped ship, took my savings and floated around for awhile.
Note that Steve Bellovin just got appointed[0][1] to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—the board that gained notoriety in 2014[2] after it condemned the NSA’s bulk phone records collection program.

[0]http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-presidents-nsa-advisory-boa...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11264929

[2]https://www.pclob.gov/library/215-Report_on_the_Telephone_Re...
An interesting thing about this is that successfully organizing in any fashion (violent or peaceful) against something like police shooting people for no damn reason pretty much requires encryption. So encryption is needed to effectively fight... well... anything that the government is doing.

I'll continue using open source software(developed out of the US if necessary) that uses proper encryption with no known backdoors and hope that is good enough.
So you trust China not to backdoor their products?
Jetta, Corolla, 3-series, C-class, etc are all compact sedans in the US. The step up (5-series, E-class) is mid-size, and the step after (7-series, S-class) is full-size.

Things like the Yaris, Polo, Fit, 1-series, etc are all subcompacts.

North American cities are largely planned around cars as opposed to having bricks thrown down wherever horses used to walk, gas isn't nearly as heavily taxed, and historically steel was never anywhere near as expensive as it was in post-war Europe. So there's no need for small cars like there is in Europe, and people like the comfort and practicality of larger vehicles.
The stdlib is very basic and many of the maintainers are opinionated about that being a positive.
Yeah, let's UML the hell out of everything to be enterprisey and be Martin Fowler-approved! This is what turned off a lot of people before!
Ask HN: What do you think of my social media app?
'With' let's you tell the world who you're....WITH! In real time, you tap your phones and everyone can see who you're with. On you're profile page it will show everyone you've met, so let's say you tapped phones with Jay-Z... people will know you're a pretty big deal because you've met Jay-Z! What you think? www.getwith.co
Yes, but I think it is a step (or rather several steps) too far to blame the users here. The advertising industry decided to take what it could so here we are today. Web properties have had ample time and opportunity to dial up the heat on the agencies and the ad-tech companies to stop this all from happening but the money was just too good.

So now the unintrusive, non tracking ads (the good guys, if you wish) will be lumped in with the rest, because they are a very small fraction of the total and people that have finally had enough of all this can't be bothered to be precise enough about how hard they slam the door.

And I'm not complaining about companies that block me because I run an ad blocker, I couldn't care less, their loss, not mine, there is enough content out there that you couldn't consume it in several lifetimes if you wanted to.
This can be easily "fixed" by making the SoC check RSA signatures on flash contents.

It all really depends on how much the FCC will be willing to bother hardware vendors whose products end up as popular hack platforms.
What books would you recommend? I'm currently in university, and I've had some exposure to discrete mathematics. But I'm definitely not comfortable with discrete math.
It's ~$15 on steam at the moment, and a relatively tiny 300MB download. If you spend even 2-3 hours on it, enjoyed, then it's definitely cheaper than the price of a movie.
Show HN: 'With' my actually social – social media app
'With' let's you tell the world who you're....WITH! In real time, you tap your phones and everyone can see who you're with. On you're profile page it will show everyone you've met, so let's say you tapped phones with Jay-Z... people will know you're a pretty big deal because you've met Jay-Z! Tell me what you think. http://apple.co/1SdYMhV
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Maybe its a cross product? If we assume "Welcome" is a 2x1 matrix and "11" is shorthand for [1 1]
> globals everywhere, tightly coupled code, no separation of concerns

Speak for yourself. I am not guilty of any of these in my large node applications. And I use no frameworks, just npm libraries.
Just as a heads up; Jigsaw (as it is today) doesn't have versions, so the issues you describe won't happen. There will be one global json-lib module that will be available to all modules.

They've taken enough to get to this point that adding version numbering isn't going to happen, but it doesn't rule it out adding it in the future. They did the minimum necessary to split out the Java libraries into different modules but no more.

If you want to have versioned dependencies, you have to work with a module system that understands versions, like OSGi.
For some smaller countries, providing the right privacy-friendly legal protections could be used to attract large multi-nationals.

Iceland is already poised to take advantage of this. A little bit of legislation, a few moderate tax breaks, and they could court Apple rebasing their corporate home, at least mostly on paper, there.
That seems like an excellent example of "one man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens".
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Almost everybody lives in cities. And, as usual, this survey was of people who have phones and were at home at the time of the survey. SO, middle-class and probably older. If we want to start splitting hairs.
The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide
Truthfully the truly privacy conscious are going to have to start joining the open hardware + open software movement.

Edit: AFAIK it isn't yet established enough to setup a full range of your average first world consumer's products though.
You can do what Apple does and require the firmware to be signed
Kayaker here too. The logistics pains of tour kayaking have too long gone unsolved, if you ever start working on this - give me a shout.
Ask HN: How big is the HN team?
How big is the HN team @ Y-Combinator?
did you check this out? https://www.ycombinator.com/video/
Curious: Can you expand on his "desperation"? Handing out money? Begging on his knees? Giving away little fluffy stuffed animals? A promise of a date with Rich Hickey?
I don't want you to switch to Clojure, I program go full time everyday and I largely agree with the article.
Well, the 'you can't be sure' in practice translates into 'everybody does it' but I'd rather leave enough room for those that do not engage in these practices. Absolutes simply don't cut it.

And the 'value they provide' is never provided to the users, always to their clients at the expense of those users.
My wife keeps hitting me when I (intentionally, to mess with her) call these creatures 'killer whales'. The name doesn't help, really.

The subtitle is 'Keeping orcas in aquariums deprives them of crucial aspects of their lives, and in some cases it can even prove dangerous to humans'. BBC seems to know what these creatures are called, but prefers to use 'killer whales' in the title. Why? That's messed up, both in general and for this particular piece.
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Be fair; that Consumer Price Index rise also corresponds to the beginning of consumerism. Lots more changed than just a currency basis. That was probably the least important?
Good to know! Now which appendage should I offer for the tasting menu....
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In some ways, I don't think it is a useful distinction. I had a boss once say (tongue-in-cheek), "It's work that I don't know how to do, which makes it hard." I think that's how most people actually think about it: "hard tech" is anything I don't know how to do, while "trivial problems" are anything that I know how to solve.

There are certainly some things that other people view as hard - like searching the web on every keystroke - that I view as...well, not trivial, but a simple matter of applying capital and writing code, because I know how it all works behind the scenes.

I'm guessing this article is attempting to focus attention away from all of the "The fundraising environment is falling!" and "My mobile app never got traction!" posts to where there are opportunities to exploit an information monopoly, and trying to recruit founders with this specialized technical information to YC.

(As a side note, I actually expect we're in for a large mobile renaissance in a year or two, with many more actually useful mobile apps becoming commonplace. But the "specialized knowledge" that will drive this is market knowledge, not technical knowledge. It's people with intimate knowledge of a problem space being able to acquire just enough technical skills (or partner with a mobile app dev) so that they can build & market a useful app. This is a power shift from technical founders to business founders in the mobile space, while the technical founders go off and build hardware/VR/AI startups.)
Some are good, some are in compliance with the law and some are not. It's a mixed bag, and then of course there is the small detail that 'the law' is not the same from one place to another and that plenty of companies use this to their advantage.
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The article, along with the zeitgeist that it refers to, is that all SV has been thinking about for the last ~5 years has been "simple tech and disrupting markets", at the expense of developing real technology.
Now just throw some compressive sensing at the problem ;)
> Why?

I'm guessing if someone doesn't know what an "orca" is then they won't get the title at all. Whereas everyone knows what a whale is, even if they don't know what a killer whale specifically is.
This, and also it can become a whack-a-mole game with vendors threatened by the FCC, possibly ending up in shit like encrypted firmware. Go ahead and hack that.
What most API documentation lacks is one thing.

Examples.

Real, working, copy-n-paste examples.

While I prefer the swagger format, we use Blueprint at work because it's trivial to include an actual example request or response as part of the documentation.

Sure, schema helps, but having a spot to just lay out an example request or response is really important.

Another thing: often, one must perform prerequisite steps before making a call to a given API method. Eg - you must have booked a flight before checking in. The context surrounding how an API fits into its use-cases is as important as the API itself.
So, there is animal rights, and animal welfare. I think one of the main problems for orcas is size. Creating an appropriately sized habitat for them would be a gargantuan endeavor, however, if we could, i think a lot of us would be less vehemently opposed to keeping them in captivity.

For pigs, this is entirely plausible. While i'm also very opposed to our current factory farming practices, since i'm fairly nihilistic about ending meat consumption for high functioning mammals in my lifetime, we could absolutely and trivially easily make their lives pleasant before slaughtering them for their delicious bacon. Yes, it would cause bacon to be more expensive, but it's definitely doable. This is simply impossible for orcas under the current paradigm.

Even as someone who supports animal rights and welfare, i could see myself being okay with orcas in captivity, if we're talking about oceanic reservations, say, the size of Connecticut, but at that size, it'd be impossible for us to make them do tricks and crap that people go to sea world for.
>> If you view the modern computer as an evolution of the abacus

I'm not sure what value that has for predicting the future. You could view the airplane as the evolution of the chariot. Or not. Does it make a difference?
One of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15) here. I'm happy to answer and questions about this post or the methods used. More info on the Bayesian methods behind this can be found at sigopt.com/research as well!
Have you ever seen hotjar, inspectlet, mouseflow and many other service? I mean check out the demo page on the inspectlet site, type in your email address, check the recording and tell me they don't store it in plain text.
They'll probably settle into a cost leader / quality leader duo.
Not to nitpick, but you might want to check your grammar and spelling. It's "lemma", not "lemme", for one thing, and "produce" should be "produces"
The free HA option will be based on this repo here: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-relay

That will be released and documented with 0.12, which should be in April.

What I meant by basic was that it would be a highly available cluster but not have other features that we have planned. It'll have recoverability, hinted handoff, anti-entropy for eventual consistency and a management and monitoring UI. It will most likely be limited by the number of cores.

Other features like role based access control and other applications we haven't started building yet will be in other pricing packages.

We haven't yet figured out the pricing for scale out clusters and those other features.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case I literally tried on three devices -- two Google Android phones and a very powerful laptop running Google Chrome on a fast connection and it not only took forever to load but was completely nonfunctional when it finally did. I literally couldn't access the content whatever I did. This is one of the most ridiculous examples of a site not working that I have ever seen. If I had not opened this thread I would have literally no idea what the site even was. If I were able I would fire the person responsible for the site, no questions asked. This site is so far past "nonfunctional" it isn't even funny. I agree that "They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome.", but there's a huge difference between "somewhat ugly presentation", "horrible presentation", "unusable for most people", and "a professional web developer with three devices and many web browsers could not make your page load".

Regarding the content of the page, which has been summarized at http://pastebin.com/raw/kYpdLgYg by commenter Raphmedia, I'm impressed. 90cm resolution in a 100kg package is pretty crazy. That they control the multimillion dollar satellite through a web interface is interesting. One clear advantage they have over governmental systems is their ability to do international launches (their initial launch from French Guiana certainly gave them some significant boost of tangential velocity compared to say, Russia, which is geologically screwed.) If anyone wants to see a visualization of that, see http://i.imgur.com/6c9Edge.png
Awesome review, I think I'll pick this up.

> Another thought: In 10-20 years, when we have everything delivered to our houses via drones and self-driving taxis populating every major street, will we be able to just get rid of small residential side-roads?

To nitpick one small part, yes, we will, because ambulances and fire trucks still need to be able to get around, and helicopters are typically cost-prohibitive.
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Not really. Read the other top comments on this thread. Quite a few of them are basically along the lines of "Sam, don't kid yourself, Silicon Valley mostly works on trivial apps."
Of course it involves war, but note how they teach the young prince it is (a) better to let the Vazier (your Queen) do all the heavy duty lifting, and (b) it is perfectly honorable to hide behind fortifications in a castle.
Can you even buy those anymore?

The GP is right: most new thermostats don't take power from the 24VAC line. That surprised me when my heat wouldn't come on one morning because the battery was too weak to pull in the relay for more than a few seconds. That's what I get for ignoring the "low battery" warning! All my previous electronic thermostats only used the battery as a backup.

In any case, are you really saying that using a toxic metal (mercury), or an imprecise bimetallic strip is really an improvement over a simple $10 electronic thermostat?
PubPub here. We need cleaner documentation on this - apologies for the lack of clarity.

PubPub journals (like JoDS) are no longer the publisher, but rather the curator. So, the key steps are:

1) Anybody can write and publish a document on PubPub.
2) Any document can be submitted to any journal.
3) Any journal can choose to feature a document (regardless of whether it was submitted or not).
4) Documents can be featured in unlimited journals.

So, to answer your question: yes - anybody can (publish on PubPub and then) submit to JoDS.
Seems to be nothing at that URL other than a "parked domain" page:

"This domain was recently registered at Namecheap. Please check back later!"
discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257928