skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to transfer between forks or anything of the like, the only difference for you is that you now have two types of coins. Eg if you had 21 ETH before the fork you now have 21 ETH on the hardfork chain and 21 ETC (ethereum classic is what they call it) on the hardfork opposing chain.

Besides there are light clients that don't require the entire chain to be stored on disk, there are even some that run entirely in your browser like https://www.myetherwallet.com

Now if you want to interact with the hardfork opposing chain things gets a bit more difficult because it doesn't have much dev support and as far as I know there are no light clients supporting it.
Silicon Valley's Yahoo diaspora mourns company's decline
Graphics Tablet Primer for Hackers [video]
So you are working for Oracle, OP?
Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society
Malloc is an Antipattern
Is anything ever deleted?
Parse is absolute garbage. Thats why it was shuttered
https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/facebook-shutters-its-pars...
> You duplicate data every time you send an Excel file by email

As much as I hate Sharepoint, it's actually, as of this year, come close to solving this problem. Full fledged Excel (and Word) documents synced between many authors working simultaneously (section-wise edit locks until next explicit save/sync), no one ever emails anything around. It's not all the way to a Git-like solution, and (at least for the moment) tied to IE on Windows, but compared to the old ways, it's a winner.
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It would be really hard and probably lose money for years, but I want to see a paper try that approach. Have an explicit and well know strategy of ,"we aren't going to be first with any stories, but everything you read here is well researched almost certainly true". It would take some time but just imagine what a paper with that kind of reputation could accomplish and the sort of loyalty it could have from customers.

You're basically describing The Economist here. Go find their coverage of some topic you know well. It might be shallow, it might emphasize the wrong things, but it will very seldom be out and out wrong. I'm not aware of any non-specialist publication I can say that for.

And instead of just "Principle A said 'aaa', principle B said 'bbb'" coverage of foreign events they also provide a bit of historical context of who these people are and what they've been doing. Along with some editorial about who they think is write which I don't always agree with but which is usually understandable at least.
It's not as easy as you think. I try to eat healthy (low sugar, no trans-fat, low saturated fat), but generally if I see ,,no sugar'' advertised on something, I know it has high saturated fat content, and if I see ,,0% fat'', I know it's something full of sugar.
Drawing animated GIFs with matplotlib
If you're in Kansas City, the wreck museum is a great place to visit. The amount of goods retrieved from the wreck of the Great White Arabia is just astounding and serves as a window into the trading goods of the early American frontier. It's a true time-capsule of the 1850's.
Just look at the general investment philosophy of any VC below T1.
This is not "what we know so far" - this is an anecdote about one person and his wife fasting for a week. There's a cursory section about the current buzz around the topic, and then a reasonable account of what happened to them.

That's it. Nice story, no actual data.
Most likely just a simple alerts or announcements model that they fetch from the server and display into a pre-allocated section in the ios view (whatever they call it in iOS), if any. It's actually really good thinking.
"We use Docker containers on Mesos to run our microservices with consistent configurations scalably, with help from Aurora for long-running services and cron jobs."
Tgc – A tiny Garbage Collector for C
People are working on it eg.
http://woodforgood.com/sustainability/build-with-carbon

and a TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_why_we_should_build_...
> Guess you didn't read my comment at all.

That's really getting old, right along with 'did you read the article'.
Why bother writing stuff on top of Ethereum? If the devs can hardfork whenever something happens they don't like, Ethereum is no less centralized than a bank. You'd probably make more consistent money by working for a bank.
pinterest, etsy, fab, digitalocean, buzzfeed, any media platform, guilt, foursquare, seamless web, app nexsus, etc. I could literally list 100.
Righteous much? The most insidious prison one could ever be put into is the arbitrary restriction in one's own mind. Luckily for the rest of us, we are in the 21st century and most people are educated enough to not believe in nonsense like witches any more. Pornography is heading in the same direction, people are finally starting to realize that sexuality is part of one's natural self. When you consider that each of us was born with a dick or tits, there is nothing wrong by accepting that and getting turned on by appreciating the aesthetics of it. It has been done since antiquity and even before that, and then we regressed into the dark ages of morality. At the very least, it is biology. Science? Yes please!
Is it? I've seldom seen it pointed out. Do people keep telling you that?

I respect your comments a lot usually, but you're being incredibly arrogant here. You are taking one subject which people quite clearly enjoy, and dismissing reverse engineering work that goes into it just because you don't like it.

If this is you standing up for what you wrote, I really do hope you didn't read my comment.
Did Someone Say Coding Is Not for Girls?
NTEL Unveils Fastest Router in Nigeria, Offers Free Browsing
This is a weird critique of R-Squared. You (should) learn very early on that comparing R-Squared values of different models is a no-no.
A bit much for a the simple one time task of planting. Maybe if you need to plant reproducibly a large variety of seeds? But this use case is rather uncommon.

For a more novel approach to farming, see the combination of fish tanks and planting, called "Hydroponics":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
Thanks for your insights!
I generally agree that feedback is important. Theoretically people should follow and gain from it. I started pleasantfish.com, a skills feedback platform where people could get anonymous feedback from their current and previous colleagues about their skills and qualities. But i generally saw people are either not interested in getting them reviewed much and even if they get feedback they are not much interested in improving upen feedback(asked through user feedback) which actually brought me to this question.

So i think somehow feedback has to be actionable and gives a plan of action to user in such a manner that he effortlessly tries to improve those things in his daily routine be it reading related articles or what. But users generally tend to be lazy which is why feedback in the end seems to be useless for them.
Ivanka Trump infuriates legacy administrators of George Harrison
Trading in Futures – By Viktor Klang
It seems that Racket became for Schemes what Common Lisp was for Lisps, which is really good.

Racket is famous for carefully chosen design decisions and nerdy attention to details, so in this sense it is much better than Common Lisp which was a dump.)
US phones roaming in China aren't blocked from using Google services, they may make an exception for Uber too.

Here's what it looked like for me last May:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9rkor22hn3q6z5t/IMG_2183.jpg?dl=0
Iran destroys 100,000 satellite dishes
Whirlwind Tour of Puppet 4
And you're claiming it's weird because people learn this early on? Maybe that's where we disagree -- it's not as common to learn about the issues with R^2 as you might think.
As a freelancer, its totally different. For them, i think recommendations and reviews are definitely way more important from clients which allows you to build a profile.
It was not build suing standard that's the reason its not compatible with today browsers
Like I said, I'd be willing to stipulate to an argument that the OpenBSD and MAC approaches were merging.

The stuff going on with pledge is a step forward! I like 2016 OpenBSD more than I did 2010 OpenBSD.

(I was, as you probably know, involved in OpenBSD in the 1990s, and then, because I worked for a company staffed by Monkey.org people, shipped a demanding product on it --- both experiences left a bad taste in my mouth).
Writing systemd Units
Here's a thought: what if 'Yahoo gives FBI snapshots' is actually parallel construction, but Yahoo are not allowed (under PATRIOT or whatever) to admit the extent of their cooperation with three letter agencies (for instance, that they hand over everything they see without requests being made). Do they have to refuse to comply with the court?
> Display nicknames of gym pokemon

That's rife for abuse. It would require a "reporting" function; a moderation team; resolution practices; human intervention; a "scoring" system to judge repeat offenders... on and on and on.

Please don't ask for that. I don't need to see that the gym located at a church being championed by the Pokeman nicknamed "Gaylord."
When I discussed this with a lawyer last year, his "this is not legal advice" opinion was that it could probably be prosecuted as conversion[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(law)
Using Docker tags to mess with people’s minds
10 Startup Priorities May Negate the Business Plan
really?

I have the complete opposite feeling, when looking into the TS2 repo.
So my lovely state bailed out of common core a 2 years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/25/i...

I have fairly mixed feelings. In theory, why would a state need to create their own education curriculum? Should a student in New York learn different stuff than a student in Ohio? And I do feel that letting states pick in matters like this means you will have fun things like certain states banning evolution, and other states mandating some form of creationism. And surely there are economies of scale if we need 1 history textbook for the entire country, vs 50.

On the other hand, I see how much my daughters school enforces testing. Tests tests tests. Parent teacher conferences aren't about how to make my daughter more successful in life, it is what to do to raise her future test scores.

As a comp sci person, you can't improve what you don't measure. Tests are how you measure. So I get it. But if I decided to measure the page load time of my server to ultimately improve server performance, no one is really hurt by that. I just write some code that runs in the background - and then I can make things better. Subjecting kids to a year round test or test-study cycle, that totally has an impact. Less time for Gym and Art class, because those aren't on the test. And I would claim that if we had to give up 1-2% of our math test scores for people who will never do math in exchange for a lifetime of healthy exercise habits gained from Gym and sports, I suspect that would be a big net win.
Your user accounts aren't global? So does that mean if I travel to a new city I have to create a whole new account?
In case it's not obvious for some, KYC means "Know Your Customer":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

And this is the whole point of anti-money laundering and fraud detection controls within banks.

There's not enough information in the story to tell if the customer turned controls off, if a transfer of this type was unusual, if the customer confirmed an alert, etc.

Reporting in the story is horrendous, almost to the point it appears it is intentionally exploiting the victim and misinforming the public.
Well, that's great if you're writing for an embedded device. But if you're running on a desktop or server system, you have hundreds of megabytes, or even gigabytes of RAM, and you're working on a multitasking machine, so you can't take it unless you need it, and to some extent, you are expected to take what you need to get your job done: MS Word doesn't decide to die if your doc grows beyond 6 pages, and Apache can't just drop requests because it hit a hard limit far below what the system is capable of.

Malloc may suck, but you HAVE to use it.
"Requirement" is relative. People will definitely prefer their own units to others.

Localization has to be done, sure. That doesn't mean it's binary, that you either localize or you don't. The more things you have to localize, the more effort it is, and that's why standards are good.

I don't agree with "if it's hard for you to spend time on things that aren't necessary, it will be hard to spend time on things that are necessary, too". I think it's objective that the fewer changes you have to do because of arbitrary legacy, the better it is.

It would be easier to reach everyone if we all spoke the same language, had the same culture, used the same units, etc. It's hard to teach everyone the same language, but it's less hard to agree on a system of units. Almost everyone else has done it.
Is this what it looks like? A service asking people to download and install a new root CA certificate?

Don't ever do that.
Functions as a service: the rise of serverless architecture
To see all the images, you must click the "Explore" title with a hamburger icon at the top. [It's a strange design, and I needed a long time to figure it out.]
It also waters and weeds with interchangeable heads. Weeding is done by pushing anything unexpected back underground. Watering is done by dropping water on the plants.
> All it takes is for one server in one datacenter to be slightly different

Don't do that. No one is allowed to ssh to boxes. If you need to enforce it by blowing up and rebuilding all servers once per week, do that.

> perhaps you had a bugfix that needed to go out for users in one area, but you couldn't take the risk of a flaky deploy for the areas that didn't need it

Feature flags. Default off, but flip on a new path of code for a set of users.

You should deploy so often that it is routine. Deploy 50 times a day. You will find bugs at first, but eventually you should get to the point that you could deploy for every single commit and no one would notice. (Now they may not be a good idea depending on your risk tolerance and other things, but you should be ABLE to deploy every single commit).

Not saying these are simple things to do, but if you are approaching servers with a devops mindsets, you literally should not care about number of servers or datacenters.
I wonder how the Theory A hackers would impacting the world without the programming languages, databases and concepts the Theory B guys made for them. And this progress is still happening today. Technologies like Golang, Apache Kafka or React are changing the face of the industry because they bring new programming models, not just algorithms.
Problem is, good wood grows extremely slowly. Not sure if that can be genetically engineered, or if it is intrinsic to the process of growing cellulose in the right arrangements...
Weapon for the recent killing spree in Munich was bought in the Darknet
If you know types from, Java, then you're in for a treat.

TypeScript is so much better to work with. Most of the time it feels like ES2015.
Last time I checked their iOS app pinged the backend around every 10 seconds for a big ol' payload of JSON config etc, which contained most of the A/B stuff and UI config (which car types to display, e.g., as where you are they might not have all of X/taxi/Black/Lux etc).
I wonder if you could do something like prototype in dynamic (original, if you will) racket and then release in typed racket for performance/safety reasons.
> I've seldom seen it pointed out.

https://www.google.nl/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+d...

> I respect your comments a lot usually, but you're being incredibly arrogant here.

That's another one of those oft repeated patterns. Usually it means "I like you when we agree, but now that we disagree I don't like you any more".

> You are taking one subject which people quite clearly enjoy, and dismissing reverse engineering work that goes into it just because you don't like it.

No, I simply don't like dumb games that cause adults to run around like headless chickens whilst ignoring the world around them and then to see my favorite tech news site flooded with one link after another. And yes, it upsets me because it crowds out other submissions not tied into the hype. Then people start making HN specials in order to ride along on the hype.

> If this is you standing up for what you wrote, I really do hope you didn't read my comment.

You be the judge on that one.

Best of luck with HN.
Depends, have you actively spent your time trying to dismantle the patriarchy? If yes, no, if no, absolutely.
Programmers should be able to trust procedures (interfaces) to do what they want them to do.
Data retention is negotiated and spelled out in detail in NDAs for contract research organizations. It's easy to delete data from servers once a project is done, but the backup tapes also have copies. You can't throw the tapes out, because the company needs them, hence there are agreements what happens to the data and tapes, and nowadays these are standard practice.

This is a solved problem in the real world, but some companies would have us think it's the Wild West, when in fact it isn't.
They had 136 people. Solving the hard problems is what makes companies successful and what proprietary companies are good at, or so I'm always told. All the information you need exists on the Cyanogenmod wiki pages, it's a matter of grinding that into code.
I think this is a pretty correct approximation. An even better way is to assume vectors are uniformly distributed on the sphere. The dot product has expectation 0 and the variance is 1/300 (cf http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/85916/distribution-...).

Chebyshev's inequality shows that the probability that the dot product be greater than 0.3 in absolute value is less than 4%.
Urbit may or may not take off - I'm skeptical myself. But unlike most of the NY tech scene it is an attempt at replacing democracy with cryptographically secure monarchy (which I may be misrepresenting as "blockchain"). I can't imagine anyone in NY even attempting something like that - can you?

Algorithms failing to detect black people is not "racist." It's simply a reflection of the fact that contrast matters. Any algorithm out there will detect `5f(x) + noise` more accurately than `0.5 f(x) + noise`. Black people reflect fewer photons than white people, that's just how physics works. Why do you believe Black Americans can change this? And why can't dark skinned Tamils (probably the stereotypical data scientist) do the same thing?

I have absolutely no idea why you consider some specific demographic breakdown "just wrong". What's your underlying moral principle? The most I can come up with is some kind 1930's Italian style corporatism with certain specific ethnic groups as the corporates, but that seems uncharitable.
Aren't most of the planned hydrogen vehicles hybrids? Combusting hydrogen won't be a lot of fun...
Aesthetic of Non-Opinionated Content Management: Beginner’s Guide to ProcessWire
It's a bit of a philosophical thing. The data arose because of results of some large set of processes, all unobserved. Assuming a deterministic world—just for convenience of argument here—there's no actual underlying distribution which caused the data. Just a big equation with too many unknowns.

In practice, though, these systems are often well-described by distributions. In common parlance for statistics, people thus sometimes like to talk about that large set of unknowns as though it really were just some arbitrarily complex distribution which we don't know: the true model.

From a frequentist perspective, the idea of the true model is very important. Many arguments arise by considering it and trying to understand how to reduce the distance between your estimators and the unknown truth.

Bayesian foundations avoid this entirely, refusing to posit an unknown and instead talking about refinements of what we know.
So I think a lot of people agree with you on

> Many people choose the wrong tool for the job

I think that is far past database choice. I think many people build SPAs that end up hurting the product over a traditional setup. I think many people use microservices where a monolith would have much better performance and reliability.

As for the basic premise

> that people who use NoSQL for 99% of their projects are making the wrong choice.

Is perhaps kinda right? Some people may really only touch giant data sets. So for them always using NOSQL is smart. The people that write webapps with 12 users? More questionable.

Most cases you can decide if you need to leave RBMS with something like.

1) Do you need to store in the next year > 100GB of data that you need to access in realtime?

2) Do you need in the next year to store > 1TB of data that you need to access in semi-realtime?

3) Do you need in the next year to handle > 1000 writes per second?

4) Do you need in the next year to handle > 1000 reads per second?

Not a perfect guide, and I am sure you can think of edge cases that can still be dealt with in a RDBMS.. but it is a decent starting place. One tricky part is that if you are optimistic, almost any app can check off #3 or #4 (Like Uber but for Baby Strollers). Knowing how to realistically estimate demand for a possibly viral startup is hard.
There will be room for a good number of niche frameworks, some of which could be highly profitable for their creators/maintainers. I don't disagree with that :-)

My point was -- and still is -- that the competition to become the dominant framework has already been won, by TensorFlow, because it has captured the hearts and minds of the most developers. Most new AI services are being built atop TensorFlow -- not DL4J, nor Torch, nor Theano, nor Caffe, nor CNTK, nor anything else.

Let me finish by sharing a video of Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, in which he emphasizes the importance of attracting developers to a stadium packed with Microsoft employees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
> other, very common frauds

Is this also coming from a US perspective, where photo ID is basically useless and everyone relies on a "secret" number (SSN) that was specifically not meant to be used for identification?
>it's comparatively hard to add new data in a RDBMS
I assume you meant to day "to add new schema". Adding new data is easy and in most enterprise environments is happening automatically every day.

As far as "add new schema" goes, I'll claim that the database is just another software component, and if you pursuing an agile strategy, that you should be modifying that schema with every sprint. My client, for whom I do data warehouse consulting, updates the schema every two weeks. Because we are responsive to the business, they never revert to spreadsheet solutions. Of course they are free to create there own custom reports in spreadsheets - we'd never try to take that away. In fact we make it as easy as possible to run business curated queries and dump the data to Excel. Our newest feature for these power users is to allow them to give back to us the Excel reports they built and we will "push and deliver" - put the current data into the raw data sheets and deliver the report - usually to Sharepoint.

Getting good business software solutions in place merely requires that the business hire some good developers. Why more don't do so remains a mystery. My best guess, like all things "corporate" is fear and laziness.
Any details you'd be willing to share?
I think you missed his point. The earth's carrying capacity for atmospheric co2 has already been exceeded to the point where we have to achieve zero net carbon emissions. Under that assumption, a carbon tax that is not effectively an outright ban is pointless. Also, he does advocate in the article for carbon neutral liquid hydrocarbon fuel production as one possibility although his point is more general.
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