skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So putting an unsecured (both to random individuals and to the hillside) container wasn't what he wanted to do? If not, he should totally sue someone, because if I ordered a pizza and an empty shipping container with windows cut out on the sides was delivered instead, I'd be mad.

Also, having an vacant building open to the public is a safety code violation. Why do you think empty building have locked doors and fences around them?
>"I feel like I'm living in the movie Brazil."

Says the Soylent salesman. Irony!
Gas-powered (as opposed to electric cars).
because it [the blockchain] has legal implications, you
have to look at it from a legal perspective as well,
because its a transaction validation mechanism without
anybody in the middle. So when these transactions are
actually validated, they hold, they are true, and they are
respected - and that is the legal aspect of it.

That man is a "special advisor" to the Ethereum Foundation. (BTW, this was filmed on July 6 2016. Maybe he should have mentioned the DAO.) He then goes on to say that banks, not wanting the legal and business model innovations blockchains propose to affect the status quo, only see/use it as a technological innovation - implying this is bad.

The blockchain is only one ledger. Once you write a line
on the ledger, its just like any accounting ledger: you
cannot erase the line above it. You just write a new line,
and then you have a chain of history, and everything is
recorded, and nothing can be erased.

Absolutely clueless in his vision. Just another rich guy evangelizing the blockchain. His explanations are absolutely trivial, he should be going into the details, he's on the Google campus.
Thanks, that's a very clear and well thought out explanation. I'll make sure not to take the skeptical detracting too far in the future!
Even with many years of back taxes that would be way under market value. A view lot like that in LA is easily 7 figures.

Out of curiosity, why do you buy land? Are you a property developer?
It's an alternative to OpenGL for applications requiring all the performance they can get, not a replacement of it.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Aside from HN's guidelines...

What do you propose? That we should just buy the latest and greatest tech, ignoring where that money goes how it impacts the world around us?

That's how you get might makes right. That's how you get corruption and entitlement from those in charge (who are always the ones with money).

This isn't about ideology. This is about sustainability, it's about history. This stuff has all happened before. There are tomes written about Gilded Age CEOs who couldn't be bothered to give a damn about anyone around them because they were the gods of industry. People get hurt from that.
No, the area (a working class neighborhood) isn't so highly sought, so I'm not surprised it isn't going for a higher price.
2 VMs, one for admin tasks, one for dev tasks, both are VMPlayer format. Hosted on my plain old Winx64 PC at the moment, can be moved to headless host if needs be.
Ah internal combustion engine. I googled and got stuff like this [0]

[0] - http://image.syracuse.com/home/syr-media/width620/img/weathe...
Every time, I look around at the existing game engines and decide they're too much hassle to use or don't work quite like I'd like.

So I decide to write my own.

…and then the game never gets written.
Except every id game is OpenGL, many of the first 3D Blizzard games, and the original source engine, all had OpenGL support.
Where I live, the public parks are full of crowds of people and have Pokemon Go signs telling them that the park closes at 11pm and must leave. The rail stations have Pokemon Go signs warning travelers to pay attention when crossing the tracks. Business are throwing Pokemon Go-themed events to bring in customers. Bars are offering Pokemon Go themed drinks with discounts for players.

I was downtown when there was a four-hour outage of the servers. I saw on my server monitor that the login server came back online. I logged in immediately. From my location I could see about two dozen Pokemon stops. None of them had lures. Within five minutes, half of them had lures.

Only a handful of immature children on the internet care about the minor bugs and server issues. There will be no drop in interest any time soon.
I don't play by the rules of the game.
Not at all, clearly building into the ground or adding stilts should require permit. In the pictures it looks like the container is on flat ground.
As a user I found Facebook's contact importer to be useful, and LinkedIn's to be deceptive. Zynga was a terrible spammer /on/ Facebook, but Facebook eventually cleaned that up (too slowly, but they did).

Google's growth was organic and based on a very high quality search product. The spammier search engines all basically died off.

So I disagree with your premise that Silicon Valley success is generally based on spammy or unethical behaviors. Yes there is way too much of it, but no, it's not a necessary part of success.
Should is up for debate, but many places require a permit for an RV or shed, so a shipping container probably does.
I had never heard of that man before, but as soon as he started talking my bullshit radard beeped. He's talking to an audience of intelligent engineers like they've never heard of the blockchain. Come on give us some meat.
Submittable (YC S12) Is Hiring a Senior UX/UI Designer in Missoula, Montana
Alternatively: multiply by ten, convert to hex, and read off as a fixed point value with 4 fractional bits.

1km = 10 = 0xA = 10/16 mile = 0.625 miles (actual: 0.621371)

2.5km = 25 = 0x19 = 1 and 9/16 miles = 1.5625 miles (actual: 1.55343)

(If it isn't obvious where the 1.6 went, you probably won't regret figuring it out.)
The fact that I need to call the bank to report fraud is enough incentive to be careful about avoiding fraud...
> It's hard to make the case that something that you find subjectively visually unappealing is the same as a pollutant or allergen.

The same, no. But on the same spectrum — namely, a property owner acting unilaterally, his neighbors' concerns be damned — absolutely.
I'm obviously just speculating and handwaving wildly here[1], but ISTM that -- currently -- the limitation here lies mainly in programming languages and semantics. AFAICT all of the non-traditional machine models require radically different programming paradigms[2] and we still aren't quite at that point where gaining more performance is painful enough that the necessary research/innovation will happen. That's assuming that it's even possible. Obviously, any model of computation places some limitations on what can happen and all information transfer (thus computation) is still limited by the speed of light. Some things are just going to remain out of reach forever and not even Quantum Computers are going to help.

[1] As I suppose we all are. C'mon we're talking about predicting the future here.

[2] If you want a practical example, look at the PS/3 Cell processor. I can't claim to have done any 'native' programming for the PS/3, but I've heard (from very clever people that I trust) that it was quite alien and required radically different program structure from what one is used to. And that architecture isn't even that different from 'normal' architectures.
It's in the agreement with you and the company. Usually it says if you cause a side effect like that you are at fault.
Then you should learn type theory proper. Although type theory can be expressed in terms of categories that is mostly because type theory and category theory, alongside set theory, higher-order logic, etc. are foundational theories. So even though it is applicable, concepts from type theory are much more relevant, with or without the categorial phrasing.
Build and sell cuckoo clocks?
Thanks for the reply! NLog's configuration story is certainly impressive; I think the differences in approach make them hard to compare directly on some of these however (for example, most sinks based on network I/O do asynchronous batching by default in Serilog).

Just on the topic of console output, you might enjoy the "literate console" - https://nblumhardt.com/2015/06/contender-for-nets-prettiest-... - for a different take on colored console output :-)

Cheers!
Put money in some sort of investment that exceeds inflation and then hibernates for 1000 years
> The people that are playing Pokemon Go wanted a Pokemon game that put Pokemon "in their world"

No, they didn't. The people playing Pokemon Go did not know what Pokemon were until two weeks ago. They didn't "want" anything. Fanboys might have wanted this. But fanboys of a 90s television show do not make up a significant part of the population.
The assimilation of robots into the workforce as peers, not replacements
There are also services like http://rentafriend.com/
I love category theory, but I feel that its penetration of JavaScript or most other languages doesn't (and likely won't) get much farther than monads and functors. Many people who use functional languages don't even know about applicatives, even though monads can be viewed as a specialization them.

If you're thinking about new programming paradigms I think the theory behind CT versions is worth knowing, but if most of your monads are maybes or lists it'll be of little practical value.
But my assumptions are based on the presence of evidence. I can't condone systems based on anything else because there is nothing that prevents it from escalating into 'kill the others'.
They mention that PH had a custom compiled PHP and that's why they couldn't get the address of the function they wanted to call for evaluating code.

My understanding is that ROP gadgets are a separate issue. Basically you want to find a function that compiles to assembly instructions resembling the ones you need to move the stack pointer to your desired location. Testing this locally shouldn't be a problem, because functions across builds will compile to the same assembly instructions (even if their headers have different load addresses).

Again, that's my understanding - I have a very vague grasp of this stuff.
Gilded Age CEOs who couldn't be bothered to give a damn about anyone around them

Couldn't they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Philanthro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon#Philanthropy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie#1901.E2.80.931...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford#Stanford_Unive...
> It's not up to the government to decide what buildings should be allowed based on their looks.

That is exactly what governments decide.

Private property does not mean, "do whatever you want" it merely gives you certain rights that the government enforces. They also enforce certain standards for the properties they sell to you.
I agree. However, if you posted on Prison Planet something that might seem blasphemous to that line of thought, you might run into some backlash. Here, you might run into someone who thinks your property rights trump the rights and needs of others. I'm not one of them.
I agree that none of the pay walled papers are good enough to justify the expense. But this was happening pre-internet as well. I used to buy newspapers occasionally when dining out alone. At best, they were somewhat cumbersome to read and provided possibly half a meal's worth of reading mildly interesting stories (to put it mildly. Newspaper subscriptions were never worth it - and this feeling hasn't changed since they went online. The future of journalism worries me a bit since the current model seems to be failing. Folks need consistently reputable sources to get news about events without a monetary barrier to read it. Otherwise, we wind up with folks believing the "truth" in what seems no better than a supermarket tabloid.
It's a difficult balance to be sure, and I have to say that I respect your work in keeping HN a pleasant place to be. I mean, there's stuff like this which is pretty important: http://imgur.com/gallery/ebUd5

But... if you look at that, you can see 'flamewar' written all over it, even though it's getting very little coverage. So I wouldn't submit it to HN as a story, even though probably quite a few people here care about it.
This is why we have forks.
Philanthropy doesn't just erase the past.

You can find a bunch of examples of good behavior, that doesn't mean destructive behavior wasn't occurring. That's the problem, none of these people are classically "evil". They're smart people who have good ideas but they also have failings like all of us.

Related to Carnegie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood

> Henry Clay Frick led a group of speculators, including Benjamin Ruff, from Pittsburgh to purchase the abandoned reservoir, modify it, and convert it into a private resort lake for their wealthy associates. Many were connected through business and social links to Carnegie Steel. Development included lowering the dam to make its top wide enough to hold a road, and putting a fish screen in the spillway (the screen also trapped debris). These alterations are thought to have increased the vulnerability of the dam. Moreover, a system of relief pipes and valves, a feature of the original dam, previously sold off for scrap, was not replaced, so the club had no way of lowering the water level in the lake in case of an emergency. The members built cottages and a clubhouse to create the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive and private mountain retreat. Membership grew to include more than 50 wealthy Pittsburgh steel, coal, and railroad industrialists.[8]
Strange, that wasn't my take from Rhinehart's blog post. His lifestyle is certainly... alternative. But I think his choices appear to be driven more by dispassionate energy calculations than douchebag judgmentality.

Which isn't to say that I am convinced by half of his "life hacks" as being more energy-efficient - I'm uncertain if he has accounted for a lot of externalities of the stuff he advocates (like costs of trashing / recycling used clothing? Food wastage from frequent restaurant usage? Uber over Tesla?) But what's interesting to me is that even if we assume the worst case, the energy profile of his lifestyle does not appear to be too far off from that of the typical consumer.

In a sense, he's attempting an extreme form of dog-fooding of the ethos of his company - Soylent undergoes constant iteration and refining of its core ingredients to further its objective of being eco-friendly and healthy - some choices don't work out because they are sourced from the same places as the fast food industry, or may trigger hitherto unknown reactions within one's gut microbiome... but that's not a good reason to swear off experimentation altogether (albeit with reasonable safety regulations). And on occasion, his method may lead him to stumble across an objectively good idea.

At any rate, I'd rather cut a man some slack to dream and experiment on new ideas, than dismiss him off-hand as a delusional silicon valley kid.
From what I remember from most scandi supermarkets carton milks are 1 and 1.5L and plastic bottles are 2 and 2.5.

As far as soft drinks go bottles like these http://www.premierexports.co.uk/1595-2155-thickbox/diet-coke... are as far as I know standard across all of Europe and they are 2 liters.
I can understand why people with depression are drawn towards it. The very nature of the condition leads to desperation in trying to escape it. If you have had depression for a long time and conventional therapy or medication seems to have failed any avenue which can relieve it becomes viable, whether that's micro-doses of hallucinogenics or something that previously you would have considered extreme like the zapping in the article.
"Run for the hills"... unless they pay well.

I'm not sure where you all play, but I play in big Corp, with my own ethics and make a strong impact. You don't have to tow the line, sale ially if you kick ass.

If you do indeed have values / ethics that STAND OUT (as opposed to just expressed on forums / on your sleeve) and you're a solid PRODUCER, nothing else matters. Go get it man!

My experience (15 yrz in big Corp operations and now IT) is that your ethics / values "get out" on their own and make a deep impact; IF you're skilled at what you do.
Yes, exactly! It seems like immediate-mode GUIs could actually lay out faster than retained-mode: you don't have a scene graph, and the layout code is just normal code that can be optimized by the compiler.
You know this is all taking place in Los Angeles? They're right to worry about what happens during a huge earthquake.
This!
A local mock of AWS is sorely lacking for most services. The best one I know are Amazon's own DynamoDB and the independent FakeS3 tool which exposes an http api and saves the blobs and metadata as local files in a transparent way.
The cost of corn stover (leaves and stalk) is $40-$80 including transportation it's about $100 per ton [1].

So, that's $90 trillion at US biomass production prices (assuming that much biomass was available) or 1.2x world annual gross world product [2].

Still $90 trillion seems like a lot.

[1] https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/EC/RE-3-W.pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
It doesn't help that there are apparently two unrelated HammerJS projects that do completely different things.
Google is an extremely rare example of natural growth. Many found Facebook's contact importer in its early days to be deceptive (and many more still do). Their growth to more than a billion users was almost inevitable - as long as they could spam dozens or hundreds of people for each new user. LinkedIn is yet another example of success-by-spamming, and Facebook's "cleaning up" of Zynga and thousands of other smaller, similar businesses built on Facebook is an example of what I was referring to when I said that companies block the very kind of behavior that got them to where they are once they are big enough to do so. They do whatever they have to do to get through the door, then they shut it behind them.

Is spamming/other bad behavior "necessary" for Internet success? That's an interesting question. I can only think of a small handful of successful Internet companies that magically went viral without such aggressive "growth hacking". The overwhelming evidence is that "necessary" may be a strong word, but "highly unlikely without it" is probably an accurate description.
It would necessarily give him a lot of attention, which it wants to avoid according to the premises...
Banks will do NOTHING to cover you in the event of a scam, or their mistake, or their negligence unless there is legislation in place to make them.

The UK ATM phantom withdrawals fiasco rather demonstrated that in the 80s.
What does the robot really want? Literally money? Power over people? Just the planet itself, with humans as nuisance?

In any case, break in to a modern biotechnology lab with everything needed for genetic engineering. Create a highly infective biological thing (not necessarily a virus) that, after infection, creates a biological circuitry that makes a human perfectly obedient after some defined signal. A much simpler versions of that already exist [0]. Now just start infecting people and use their resources to spread it even wider. Even if a small part of a population is immune it's not a problem.

Few days at most and you own everything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-altering_parasites_an...
Bingo!!
According to this diagram, IPFS should use (or be) a blockchain.
> think through stuff

Perhaps you are simply talking past each other? If "think through stuff" involved coming up with your own questions about the material and answering them, this would fall under what many mathematicians would call "exercise". In fact, I've found the belief that this is often more valuable than in-book excercises to be pretty pervasive in mathematics.
So hold on. Assuming that I understand C++ linking right, you're saying that I should include this 17000-line file in every single cpp unit in my application that uses Vulkan APIs? And people wonder why C++ programs compile so slowly.
Verizon and Yahoo are set to announce an exclusive $5B deal
Inside trading using lots of shell companies through lots of offshores.
Use his people skills to gather confidential information, use his mental skills to disguise correctly the trading.
It's a legitimate way to transfer data. I linked it here in a discussion about something more surreptitious but I doubt it'd actually be useful in that context. Think of it like an audio QR code -- anywhere a QR code might be useful, this could also be useful. And it already is pretty much fully cross-platform.

Firefox downsamples in order to save CPU cycles on noise reduction and echo cancellation.

Also yeah, I forgot about the div that gets added. Since that page is just a demo, I don't necessarily see any reason to display additional receiver info. The hope is that this is a workable library that won't put a lot of burden on the end-user in order to confirm it's working. Perhaps all that's missing here is looking at signal energy just to confirm that the mic isn't muted, and displaying something if it is.

The lab only transmits to itself because of UI sync difficulties. It is on my road map to come back to this later, but essentially the issue is that the receiver has to have the same setup as the transmitter, which would require some out-of-band method to sync up. Running it on my laptop seems to be a perfectly workable way to test the config.
He bought some land and put a shipping crate on it. So what? Your response seems completely unproportionate.
Is the entire range of action that ends in asserting one's own volitions over another's so reducible? What makes this "unilateral" besides there being opposing interests? This isn't even always (maybe not even typically!) wrong -- if the Westboro Baptist Church moved next door to me it's not like I'd be wrong in acting unilaterally, my neighbors' concerns be damned, in say flying a pride flag.
Verizon to Buy Yahoo for $5B
Chemlawn hits so many points. We have a winner.
Xbox One S release date and specs announced
That's pretty much what 'flag' already does, since we review the flagged stories and comments.
Vulkan market is MUCH bigger than DX12 market right now, no matter how you put it. It's like at least 3-4x bigger.

Just think how much more popular Windows 7 is compared to DX12. Xbox One is nothing in comparison.
> have you heard that thieves are guessing PINs someplace in the world? I haven't, and the world is full of dedicated thieves.

Not so much guessing, but there have been several cases, at least one very well publicised, where thieves have gamed the PIN generator sequences[1].

What often happens, of course, in cases where wide systemic problems exist in banking is it's very effectively hushed. For rather obvious reasons.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/phantoms_and_rogues/...
Why we use OpenBSD at VidiGuard
How is this different than a gazebo?

If he had built a gazebo or similar structure on the land, would the neighbors have anything to say about it (except maybe "make sure the homeless can't be comfortable in it")?
Problem is, slashdot's mod tools don't work. You'll see all sorts of retrograde anti-intellectual stuff being upvoted on slashdot. And the born yesterdays who think steam and drm are wonderful things.

If anything no moderation system can protect you against ignorance and anti intellectualism when it pervades a culture.
Creating a crypto virtual currency, convincing a lot of key people to put trust in it, working behind shadows to make its value goes unprecedently high. Uses an admittedly fake name to uncover its identity while still managing to create trust that it is ok for it to keep most of the value that this crypto-currency is creating.
He created SoYLeNT (so it gets clicks) and when you don't have to hire photographers, fluff like this writes itself.