skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Burnout and dream of working in construction...

Is this a thing? Working in construction is usually my first day dream when I'm feeling fed up with work or a little burned out.
Code aside. This should strike fear in the hearts and minds of any dev who wishes to change jobs and doesn't change industries / product type. I would think that push come to shove employers will opt for less direct experience.
Thanks. There are some hints to "why" on the page you link to:

"Before high fidelity replication, organisms could not be easily mapped on a phylogenetic tree. Not to be confused with the Ur-organism, however, the LUCA lived after the genetic code and at least some rudimentary early form of molecular proofreading had already evolved. It was not the very first cell, but rather, the one whose descendents survived beyond the very early stages of microbial evolution."

And the question that fascinates me is "where are these primitive forms"? Even if the original forms evolved since, why can't we find at least some "improved" forms that use these more primitive principles than the ones we're accustomed to?
Yes, Toyota has solid financials.
I work from home, which means I'm hyper-sensitive to my internet quality. I also sometimes work through the night to early in the morning.

I've found that my Comcast connection here in San Francisco fairly reliably drops for a few minutes every day at around 2-3 am. Then it comes back and works find again. I've thought about calling them about this before, but I'm not sure that I want to spend a couple hours on the phone convincing them it's a real issue.
The last few decades demonstrate the SEC is much closer to a rubber stamp for bad behavior than a meaningful entity.
People keep bringing this up and it's silly. It can just record what you say and send it later.
the big assumption is that they will deliver the car at a profit.
It's... Slow.

The idea is nice: create groups dynamically.

But god it's slow.

It has the same problem that Google Plus had: it's SLOW. Boringly slow.
Iceland’s Biggest Political Party Is Now the “Pirate Party”
TrueVFS – Basic Concepts
Thanks! The headline did have a bit of a buzzfeed quality on reflection.
I don't know much about this sort of thing but I wonder if the ultimate performance would come with co-locating specialized compute with memory, so that the spatial layout of the computation on silicon ends up mirroring the abstract dataflow dag, with fairly low-bandwidth and energy efficient links between static register arrays that represent individual weight and grad tensors. Minimize the need for caches and power hungry high bandwidth lanes, ideally the only data moving around is your minibatch data going one way and your grads going the other way.

I wonder if they're doing that, and to what degree.
Chat and VoIP networks with no desktop clients...? I'll stay with Hangouts, thanks.
How is it not true? Prior probability has nothing to do with the false positive rate. False positive rate is a function of the inaccuracy of the test.
In a future where AI is everywhere, Nvidia hopes it can sell GPUs by the hundreds and thousands to large data centers. You can make a lot more money a lot faster selling your hardware this way, and Nvidia is very interested in it judging from how much they talked about it at their recent conference.
And all of it nicely accessible to the US. What a great idea.
"We can only send you the data as fast as we can get it from Netflix. Please try speedtest.net, speedof.me or testmy.net to check your actual speed."
FYI, new docs on data structure mention rooms, which was an example in the old docs. Should read messages or conversations: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/web/structure-data...
I don't know much about Ethereum so I might be way off here.

From what I understand though:

1. The contract you deploy to the blockchain is tied to your account where it gets the funds (ether/gas in Ethereum's lingo) to pay for its existence. So if those funds aren't there - the contract is 'dead' ;

2. There are ways to use Ethereum's registrar metadata to use contract's 'name' that isn't hardwired to the implementation so you can change the implementation behind the scenes. You can also have an intermediate contract whose only purpose is to proxy requests to the more involved contract so you can update your 'backend' at will.
>Everything else is just...

Scaling up manufacturing is harder than building a low volume, expensive car.
Actual code aside, I would think this should strike fear in the hearts and minds of any dev who wishes to change jobs and doesn't change industries / product type. I would think that push come to shove employers will opt for less direct experience, else they'll fear "a temporary measure" they didn't ask for. That is, suddenly, experience might not be as valuable as it used to be.
There's also high-end mobile (Samsung Gear). 300 bucks? 400? Don't know exactly.
Open Threat Exchange
Bah, SGI made a Tensor Processing Unit XIO card 15 years ago.

evidence suggests they were mostly for defense customers:

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16728751
http://manx.classiccmp.org/mirror/techpubs.sgi.com/library/m...
You did accuse someone of "slander" for saying something which has been repeatedly reported. Also, http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4105
In other words, the marginal cost of producing a car is lower than its selling price?
And when will Firebase become a product we can self-host? Because until that is the case – or unless people do an SLA regarding Firebase – it has to be considered as reliable as a 2$ VPS.
I see. I didn't know it's associated with Snowden.
Thanks, amended my post.
This is pretty interesting. So I guess there's a huge opportunity here for grey/black-hatted people to analyse contracts and transactions and spot flaws? Apparently even bitcoin has weaknesses like these, with non-standard transaction scripts that may be easily solvable/stealable for anyone with a bit of insight
European here - for a second I thought the idiom derives from the use of loud music in torture by CIA
Fun domain. You could use it to rank the slowest providers. Sort of like the razzies, but for ISPs. :)
How different are TPUs from GPUs? From the article, it sounds like TPUs use lower-precision arithmetic: are there any other differences?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270758
Bash is also a GNU tool. It was written from scratch in the GNU project as a replacement for /bin/sh, the original Unix Bourne Shell.
I'm on a smartphone. But OTR expects the opposite side to respond immediately. So not SMS or anything of that sort. The signal protocol for example was designed to work around that. A client can be offline when you send a message. Different protocol design that involves stuff server side.

> Not even if it were only available open-source?

No. Very few people can assess if something is cryptographically sane, and a lot of people need to do it for something to be believed secure.

I'm not one of those people. I'd rather use state of the art crypto. Thanks.
You kinda repeat yourself here, and it's not really a response to my post here.

I found the answer from a sibling post: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/730289041493483520

Moxie should use this incident to prominently make it clear in the protocol documentation that independent implementations are welcome. That's our best bet until there's an IETF RFC based on Axolotol everyone can implement instead.
Oh wow and each of those things are a premium service that costs money. There are many people who can not afford those, oh but tough crap to them right? How about all the people not in the same income bracket as you? I guess that's their fault in your opinion? That is just elitist.
Unless the device is programmed to automatically enter into that mode in the absence of any signal on the assumption that if it is in a shielded location it is likely interesting.
As in help out with their research as a learning experience.
I think we'll see a lot of interesting blockchain stuff come out in the next year. Recently, I have been trending toward the idea that one thing Bitcoin got right was carving out its useful domain area and focusing on that when it came to opcode support.

It seems to me to be much easier to reason about a very limited set of actions than the virtually unlimited ones Ethereum offers.

On the other hand, it's incredibly fast to spec out and deploy one of these contracts, which is pretty amazing to me. Lots of interesting things coming.
That's why I think an open source distributed & end to end encrypted social platform to replace facebook and google plus is needed too.
2016 - Google reinvents ActiveX.

If I don't have app X installed it can mean I don't know the app. But also it can mean I find it a resource hogging, data gathering piece of turd and that's why I'm using a website.

It seems that choice has gone now.
That's really easy to say behind a throwaway account on the internet. It's a much harder choice when it's your life and freedom on the line, and I don't know if anyone can truly say it for sure until they're in that position.
It's only a matter of time before the hunter - in this case Oracle - becomes the hunted. You would think they know better. But this isn't about code and law, is it? It's a testosterone fueled pissing match. Don't cha think?
That was more like a rant than a "cautionary tale". Without any details, it was hard to make anything of that article, other than the author was angry and bitter at banks.

As a business litigator, I learned there are 3 sides to every story: one side, the other side, and what really happened.
OP, we're close, I'm averaging 130 USD/day for 2016. It jumps all over though, and I might see 200 USD days, and 90 USD days, even though traffic and clicks remain level. It's from a single site. About 60% of my users run ad block (young, male, tech audience, mostly on desktop).

Ad revenues drop year after year. I think it's a dying business in its current form.

I think an API should be available for advertising. The API would provide the name of the advertisement, the description, colour scheme, image, and more. Then, developers can use that information to work the advertisement into their site in an attractive and seamless manner.

http://i.imgur.com/9ecRa5o.png

An example is above. Instead of having a leaderboard advertisement for Chrome, HN could get the advertisement details, and insert it into the site to resemble a post. Every site could then style the advertisement their own way.

I think it's less annoying to users, fast to load, users are more likely to read and click it in comparison to a banner they're blind towards, advertisers would get more for their money, and publishers don't need to destroy their site with gaudy flashing boxes that everyone ignores. It's a win-win-win situation, and my vision for the future of advertising.

Personally, I'm looking to drop AdSense in the near future and try alternative revenue streams. I worked hard to develop my community. I don't like pushing some ugly, irrelevant, tracking filled ads on my users, in exchange for a few cents on every thousand impressions. It's a business that needs fixing, because advertisers are getting ripped off, users are bending over or forced to install ad blockers, and publishers need to keep pushing more and more advertisements to make the same revenue they earned last year. I'm surprised Google hasn't been more innovative in this space considering it's their bread and butter.
Haha. Crazy. Scheduling is a pretty well known problem; I wonder how close to ideal you got.
vibrate-only alarms don't work. The UI allows you to set no sound, and choose a vibrate pattern, but it doesn't trigger when it's supposed to. I learned that you have to create and load a "silent.mp3" file and select that sound for the alarm in order to get vibrate-only alarms to work.
Offline: Automatically display online/offline indication to your users
Actually, per their latest earnings reports[1], if they did what Toyota does and roll their R&D expenses into their cost of revenue, they would still show a gross profit. It would just be $70M for Q1'16 instead of $252M.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=TSLA
make a longer test which downloads a video for 10 minutes.
First off, this is all my opinion, not absolute truth.

Second, sure Amazon does ads on the side, but the majority of their money is made by selling their own products. Occam's Razor suggests that they simply want to sell you stuff using one more way. Notice that the Echo didn't do almost anything when it was initially released, except allowing you to buy stuff. That was the part that they worked out before launching it.

Also, don't forget that Amazon also has a number of other devices that are very similar: the Dash button and Amazon Fresh come to mind. The Echo fits nicely in line with it.

I am not saying they couldn't use it for something nefarious: they could definitely abuse it. I just think that they have less incentive to do so than Google.
We were also looking for an open source Firebase a while ago, packed with some extra features like multiple db support and push notifications. Ended up building http://telepat.io.

Docs & specifications at http://docs.telepat.io/. Hope this helps you.
Yes. But he came up with at / for Oracle. And then nicked it for Google / Android. The former was original. The latter a knock off. I believe that's the crux of the rub, eh.
Yeah, one of the first professional jobs ca. 2001 was to replace the student group registration form and database at my 40k-student state university. I replaced an old ColdFusion app with a few pages of PHP backed by MySQL. The design was horrendous, the error handling worse, and yet somehow it was an incredible leap forward in terms of performance and UX.

I think the bottom line is that there is often very juicy low hanging fruit that you can get to just by a minimal amount of knowledge and sheer force of will. The deeper knowledge and experience will give you a lot more things to think about which will help with edge cases, scalability, maintainability, robustness, etc; but while those things may be necessary for some projects, in many cases they end up bringing only small marginal gains.

I'm at the point in my career now where I'm actively cultivating beginner's mind to avoid being paralyzed by my knowledge of all the ways things can go wrong.
I think it's because of the rapid adoption of Slack and WeChat, coupled with some desperation for there to be a "next big thing". We had a huge next big thing with mobile around 2009/2010, but everything since has sorta fizzled out. It was supposed to be the sharing economy in 2012, but Uber & AirBnB's great success hasn't really translated to other markets. It was gonna be Bitcoin in 2013, but then the bubble burst, mainstream users stopped caring, and it remains a niche technologist's playground. It was looking like it'd be hardware or IoT in 2014, but the big names there (eg. Nest) petered out without crossing the chasm. It was supposed to be wearables and the Apple Watch in 2015, and I do see some people wearing smartwatches, but again, it's really still an early adopter thing. Bots are up for 2016.

I'm beginning to believe Peter Thiel's quote of "Every moment in technology happens only once." When one company has great success, it doesn't mean that a whole sector will have great success; indeed, it's pretty likely that everyone else in that sector will fail spectacularly. But if that's true, the business model of many VCs (figure out the next big thing, and invest in the companies do it) is fundamentally flawed, and they should stick to providing working capital for businesses that have struck it lucky and already started to take off. But if that's the case, capital is a commodity, and it's awfully hard to justify 2 & 20.
Is this supposed to replace Hangouts or be a Hangouts that's attached to your phone's SMS? Also, where does this mean Voice's SMS capabilities are now canned?
> With Firebase, Vue-Fire (Firebase bindings for Vue.js), crossfilter and chart.js, you can whip up a functional and sweet analytics dashboard or [insert pet project here] in a weekend.

> It gets the headache of a backend (and user auth) out of the way.

You can get the same if you use other tools.

The realtime stuff is the only big thing they do most other projects don’t, and even for that there are currently several quite well working implementations out there.
Considering he now has two jobs, 1) to be an actual mathematician, and 2) to fulfill his "popular" role, I'd say that this post was rather trivial except for the last line. Even two entirely random distributions, can be correlated 100%, such that some function of both of them is entirely static/constant. I'm not sure why you are defending what is indefensible. His accolades aren't some unpierceable armor for everything he does. But I'm not trying to be snark either. I do agree, the truths that he can uncover are a lot more important than any popularity pandering.
Let's just say I was courteous to some of the early and published contracts out there.

It does sketch out a new world for grey and black hats, when the attacks can be pretty easily separated out from an IP since they're submitted over the ethereum network.
17M LinkedIn email addresses and passwords put up for sale
What are some computer hacks that hackers know but most people don't? (2013)
Ever heard a coder jokingly call themselves a "professional Googler" or "StackOverflow copy&paster"?

Why is it so unreasonable to think that some of these very real "trivialities" can't be automated in some way?
The Last Question (Asimov Reimagined with Ayahuasca)
New from Credit Suisse: Bonds for Self-Inflicted Catastrophes
I've heard you can just sample a noisy resistor, too.
> or unless people do an SLA regarding Firebase

https://www.firebase.com/terms/service-level-agreement.html

Though I think what you are looking for is Firebase being covered by a Deprecation Policy.
Yes, the accepting contributions part is such a pain...
Generally speaking GPUs are already very good at running with float32s, usually much better than they are at using float64s in fact. The big advantages of using an ASIC are mostly on the storage side but they also allow you to get away with non IEEE floating point numbers that don't necessarily implement subnormals, NaN, etc.
If they care so much about carriers throttling their traffic perhaps they should go easier on users trying to access Netflix through a VPN.
Hey. I just fixed this. Ended up being due to a bug in a dependency.
I haven't even really explored all the capabilities of Alexa, but I ask Alexa to:

1. read the news (1x per day)

2. play music (~3x per day)

3. turn on/off lights (~8x per day)

4. set a timer (~2x per day)

5. feed the cat (~2x per day... blog post forthcoming)
It's possible to make something similar with Excel. Something like

A1 = "X" B1 = Integer( 6 * Random() + 1 )

A2 = "Y" B2 = Integer( 6 * Random() + 1 )
A3 = "X+Y" B3 = B1 + B2

A4 = "Z" B4 = 7 - B1
A5 = "X+Z" B5 = B1 + B4

And then press "F9" to refresh the random values and get new ones.
It looks like it is here to stay... But that surprise Parse shutdown will leave me asking, what if...
So if I understand correctly, then twigs and leaves could be boats? :) I guess if a boat was originally constructed of a bunch of twigs (some of which still had leaves on them), but caught on fire. One lucky leaf was knocked off and managed to survive the fire. Everything else sunk. The single remaining artifact of the boat was that one leaf. And it's still floating... Everyone looked at me perplexed when I told them all that we were looking at a boat! :)
No its not. Go interview developers sometime.
Gunn High School students asked to retake AP exams due to testing errors
Barely related-

I've been kind of curious about part time graduate studies- maybe at the masters level.

I clowned around, partied in college. As a consequence I never made any lasting relationships with my professors, and had a fairly mediocre academic record.

I did have a lot of fun in the 'intro to math research' course I got to take.

So I've toyed with the idea of taking a class a semester, maybe as a non-degree student in an effort to shore up my now rusty mathematical skills and build rapport with professors whose work I find interesting.

Even if it doesn't pan out, I get to study stuff I like and still have a solid job.

EDIT- I guess I'm fishing for other people's experiences in part-time post-bacc studies.
Period life expectancy is the term you are looking for, I think. Immediate googling does not provide a helpful answer.

Another interesting question would be Cohort life expectancy of corporations - that is, have corporations started in the 1990's lasted longer than those started in the 2000's? (obviously, the graph of corporations in the 2000's would have less data)
Why would you have to use Chrome? You just need Chrome as a platform to launch your chrome app...

I don't get it
oh damn oh damn it's still up!

https://www.magnamund.org/risingsun/February2000/Bookkeeper....

I got my wisdom teeth taken out when I was in high school, and coded this in a weekend while eating Percocet and tapioca pudding. I had no idea it was even still for download! It doesn't matter now, because I believe the Magnamund books are being re-released in a more modern, integrated package...but there it is!
Why do you distrust Goldman, but not Tesla? You know that investment banks don't play those games in a vacuum, right? Both parties a guilty.
Google Fiber releases San Jose construction plan
http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-takes-on-apple-facebook-w... (https://archive.is/ELitC for paywall)

>All chats will be encrypted, but a special incognito mode will have an end-to-end encryption, and expiring chats that are permanently deleted once you leave them.
Dr Carroll's Healthcare Triage series has been linked elsewhere in the thread, but there are a couple videos that are relevant to this discussion (namely, how Bayes' theorem applies to medical testing, and why the prevalence in the population matters (or, more accurately, the probability that the patient has the disease/drug in the first place, which is heavily influenced by the prevalence))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1T7KzRnrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql2jEJ-6e-Y
1) Well, contracts have balances, true. The people calling the contracts pay for it to run, so the dead terminology is at best imprecise. If the contract pays out 10 ether in .01 ether increments, and never takes any in, then it will be dead once depleted. On the other hand, people calling the contract pay for the cycles to run it, so one wouldn't typically go dead in that way.

2) I'm not an expert on the registrar situation by any means. But, I do not believe that updating a registrar pointer changes the balances at each contract (the old and new), so while it may be useful for some cases, those which involve balances may be more troublesome if you haven't thought ahead.
Oh wow...

https://www.magnamund.org/risingsun/February2000/Bookkeeper....

I got my wisdom teeth taken out when I was in high school, and coded this in a weekend while eating Percocet and tapioca pudding. I had no idea it was even still for download. It actually works very well for what it is (an interactive sheet of paper for use with a book)...still in use? Probably not, but I am amazed that it is still there.
You can use any Google Cloud product with Firebase so you have access to Cloud Functions. https://cloud.google.com/functions/
> The sum of popularities for these three would tie with Groovy at #18

You said "highly flawed TIOBE index". Look at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy and notice the sudden jump from 0.33% in Nov 2015 to 1.2% a month later. I would say grossly unbelievable, even massively fabricated. I suspect Groovy's backers pulled off this trick by having "Gradle DSL" added to their Groovy keyword list, but with the announcement that Gradle are adding Kotlin to their supported DSL languages, Groovy's top 20 listing won't last.
Again, you seem to be confusing what they should be doing with what they are actually doing.