skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This concept is dizzying for me.

Is it OK to think of numbers as a landmass? Is it OK to think of that numerical landmass to be partitioned and owned? Is it OK to hide things in private plots of numbers? Is it OK to expect your numerical plot to be private?

I'm not sure if I like it, or hate it.
IMHO, the only thing that prevented a total takeover by Bitcoin was the block size limit. Many, including myself, simply stopped promoting Bitcoin to businesses, due to the limit, and all of the momentum ran out. I spoke personally to a start-up that had been working on a major service that would have boosted the Bitcoin ecosystem, that said the block size limit was the reason they were pivoting away from it, and at the time I was confident the community would push through a hard fork to raise the limit and told them so. When it became clear that wouldn't happen, it was a hugely demoralizing development.

Major Bitcoin VC Roger Ver has experienced this as well:

https://forum.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-discussion/block-size-disc...

>I know of multiple large companies who specifically have decided NOT to integrate bitcoin at this time because their user base would overwhelm the the current Blockchain capacity.

This has been termed the Fidelity Effect, after the decision by Fidelity to postpone a Bitcoin project due to the block size limit:

https://youtu.be/TgjrS-BPWDQ?t=3h31m13s
Yeah and on mobile devices you can waste a lot more battery running animations in HTML5. I'm sure your users will appreciate that. Surely the most important thing is to optimize programmer time and comfort without regard to the end-user experience and that thinking has lead to a world filled with wonderful well-designed software that properly handles error conditions and never presents users with useless choices or non-actionable obscure error messages.*

Snark aside, if you have a native mobile app it is a much, much nicer experience to have native animations integrated rather than trying to mash an HTML view into the app just for some animations.

*Because programmers are the worst kind of pedants: Yes I know sometimes you can't afford to write native apps, sometimes a partial solution is better than no solution, etc. Just don't lie and tell me a web app is as good as (or better than) a native app, or that Cordova is a great way to write mobile apps. Those are compromises. Sometimes you make compromises to get shit done. It doesn't magically transform a compromise into an ideal solution.
>> after reading several reports

We HN users are fortunate to be "in the know" about these issues, because we keep up with this information.

Can you imagine how the out of the box experience would feel like for less-informed early buyers of the new MBP who find out about these issues post purchase?

I get the impression it's going to hurt the "everything just works" reputation that Macs have had for the longest time.
Does it toggle or is only when the fn key is held?

If it's only whilst the key is held it effectively means you'd have to use your right hand to press the escape key ...which doesn't sound ideal to me.
Yeah, maybe cutting edge is the wrong phrase. Maybe "latest things seeking funding / promotion" would have been more accurate.
OK, I see what's the problem. By "higher score" I meant "higher score than the other group for given default risk", not "higher score than the other group on average". So, by my nomenclature, fig. 7.1 shows Blacks having "higher" (call it inflated) FICO scores because for every N an N% risk Black scores higher than an N% risk Asian. At the same time fig. 7.2 shows Blacks having lower scores in general, which must be because they default more, as you observed.

I think we can agree that using the same cutoff for both races gives less accuracy than using higher cutoff for Blacks and lower for Asians, for some values of "higher" and "lower". You are right that "race discrimination is the best way to make money", but at the same time I think I'm right that this happens because FICO score already is racist to begin with, which is the "garbage in" I talked about.
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Electric guitar is perfect. Headphones. The unamplified strings are almost inaudible from the next room.
Was hoping I could enter my birth year and get back some risk prediction.
Well, duh: every computer program is just a single, very long, number. But it's still ridiculous.
Not software, but I have a rental property that earns me about $400 a month in mortgage principle paid. The renter is a relative who's been there for several years.
All digital information can be thought of as a number. If we can restrict harry potter, then having an Illegal prime is not that big a stretch.
Another way to view this is the reward at the end of the rainbow.

Back in the '60s and probably all the way to the '90s. There was a reward for young men to pick up that guitar.

If you played it enough and you got good, you could be a rockstar. And, yes, I suppose you have to start at the bottom, playing in small bands and doing gigs for peanuts but you could work your way to the top and be successful.

I can't imagine that incentive exists anymore for the average kid who doesn't love the idea of playing guitar for the joy of being a musician, but rather, for the promise of fame, money and girls. Especially if they are ugly dudes, like the members of Kiss, or Ted Nugent or all the guys from Metallica, or Tommy Lee etc, etc.

Which means, so what if you learned to play the guitar and you learned it well? How lucrative is it to be a lead guitarist these days? Do you have a good chance of getting a sweet record deal as a guitarists these days? Or will you be relegated to be the in the background, letting all your talent and potential be squandered playing pop song arrangements for Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande? Well either that or you can remain indie, beloved by many people whose financial support barely sustains you and always obscured by the shiny pop talent.

I think the modern version of the rockstar today is the DJ. It's much more rewarding to learn to be a DJ (or a producer for that matter) and whether it be for the fame, the money or the girls.
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I admit I don't know much about project management. So it's quite possible you're right, and most of the project management work is put on the team (for better or worse, I think it's for the worse, anyway).

But, what I think is crucial, is (at least for someone) to know the history. So if the scrum master is to successfully improve the process, he should have a clue about project management and what was tried with what result. Otherwise he will just rediscover Brooks (Fred, although Mel is probably also a possibility). And that's why it's bad to say things like you are saying, that scrum master is not project manager, because then you will get people who really have no clue.
For those who use JSON regularly and aren't familiar with Protobufs (or one of the variants like Cap'n'Proto), they're an amazing binary serialization format that is tightly packed, encoding and decoding efficient, and designed around supporting protocol changes.

Fields are serialized to tag numbers instead of field names in the binary format, so it's easy to rename fields. This also saves a ton of space versus JSON.

Proto "messages", analagous to structs in other languages, are typesafe, negating the need for a separate schema definition language. They support optional and sum types too.

So many languages have great protobuf libraries available. (I'm hoping one becomes available for Rust soon--as well as gRPC.) It would be amazing if the browser vendors would come together and standardize it as a first class browser serializarion format. It'd save so much bandwidth to emit protos instead of JSON.
It's a delicate balance, for sure. Focus on product until you have something that really works. But don't fall into the 'build it, and they will come' trap.

As a side note: the new UI for blog.ycombinator is really ...uncomfortable. 3 columns? 4 if you count the social share buttons jutting out on the left. Designed on a > 21" monitor :(

The list of tags doesn't need it's own column... each with it's own row. Just make it a tag cloud above or below the blog list, and give a little breathing room to the actual article.
I wonder if people with long necks are more intimidating to geese.
No, the purpose of insurance is to hedge the risks (i.e. one would prefer to take 0$ than to take a 50-50 bet on 1000$).

For example, the price of bond insurance is not normalized between bonds with different ratings.
I read it as only allowing you to redistribute unmodified copies, because clause 3 only permits modification "for your own internal use."
In a world full of cooking show hosts that are more reality tv stars than kitchen pro Pepin stands way out. He's the real deal. Unapologetic old school french technique without any pretension.
Did not realize you could use MXNet declaratively (like Tensorflow/Theano) and imperatively (like Torch/Chainer). Can anyone speak more of their imperative usage of MXNet?
Because a lot of people fall asleep on flights, and want to refresh their oral hygiene when waking up, and the airline realizes this extra will be appreciated.

Now, do people need USB-cables when using their electronic devices? And would that little extra be appreciated?
"Most of the original motivations for having an FCC have gone away," Jamison wrote. "Telecommunications network providers and ISPs are rarely, if ever, monopolies."

While I sometimes wonder about the value of the FCC in some respects, I think the statement above is a load of horseshit. Jamison either has friends at Comcast (edit: nope, Sprint: http://fortune.com/2016/11/21/trump-net-neutrality-fcc/), or mentally is stuck back in the 90s where everyone and their brother owned a dial-up ISP.

Although I think the standard response is to raise a hue and cry and fight a move to dissolve the FCC wholesale, I think a far more effective tactic is to talk about what the FCC does well, what it could do well, and what (if any) responsibilities should either be handled through legislation or removed.

I'm pretty sure that there's a baby in all that bathwater.
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Numbers can be owned in specific contexts, not universally. Nothing insane about it.
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Also, in your documentation, please show what the webhook events will look like since developers actually want to write code and not guess at what we will get.

cough Stripe. (https://stripe.com/docs/api#events)
and this refutes how?
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This is a fair point. I'm more so reacting to the tone of the article, which suggests technological or social innovation.

I see neither.

Analogously: TCP is pretty amazing, but I don't expect an app that uses a simple TCP socket to self-aggrandize on the pretext of technological innovation.
There's plenty of room for other Facebooks. In fact, there are major competitors to the likes of Facebook & Linkedin & Google.

They just happen to be national companies (russia, china, some european).

If anything. The thought that they have no competitors/alternatives is just a display that SV totally ignore the local non-english competitors (no matter how engrained they are in their market) and generally disregards anything that is under 1 billion unique users.
> The main problem is that it was built on crank economic assumptions. It is literally an implementation of Federal Reserve/gold bug conspiracist economic theories and weird Bircher ideas of where inflation comes from - that's actually its point.

Speaking as one of those western developers - and as someone with a standard economics education - what makes you think those economic assumptions hurt Bitcoin itself?

Sure deflation is a terrible thing for economies, but that has no bearing on the success and value of the currency itself. What matters for a currency that people aren't forced to use is that it maintains its value, which is exactly what the eventual deflation in Bitcoin does. Equally, _currently_ Bitcoin's monetary supply is highly inflationary, about 8%/year right now iirc, and will remain high for years to come.

Let's not let our economic education prejudice us; Bitcoin is a good example of how good monetary policy is often similar to taxes in general in terms of the conflict between what's good for individuals and what's good for society as a whole.
Or a good broadly skilled designer ;)
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Not mentioned in the article, but I think pertinent: the possibility that Assange is deliberately fostering these questions, as publicity.

This is a man who claimed he was going to drop a massive October surprise ending Clinton's run from the balcony, then cancel the balcony appearance hinting that his life might be in danger (from Clinton's snipers hitting him during his speech?) and switched it to a 3 am live-cast from a basement, and then it turned out the whole thing was just a promotion for his book.[1]

Whether or not it's the case in this situation, I'd say it wouldn't be out of character.

1. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/04/wikileaks-t...
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> with a pair of Sennheiser headphones.

And that's where this falls apart.

While some people buy quality headphones, many will be using cheap, or rebranded low-quality headphones, like beats, or even no-name headphones.
Ridiculous, scientists want to be the new oracles that they fought for centuries. Science is turning into a religion with the almighty priests who receives the truth from their eminent laboratories. Stop churning out papers to prove you exist and you are an expert.
Your only use is to justify extortionate vaccine prices that are in fact harmful and deadly. Robot monkey scientists...
For starters, the fact that RealTek is so easily reprogrammable to turn audio output into input is very unlikely just a "bug". It's a feature left their on purpose.
Comfort and salary. I should have been clearer.
I actually think this is very relevant, just unknown! It's something I always wondered about Vi, the ESC key is just out of reach of the home row, making it a strange choice for a fundamental operation.
Serious question: I understand the argument against the classic "why should I care if someone records my conversations? I don't do anything illegal."

For the same reason you have the 5th amendment. It's quite easy to make someone who is innocent look guilty.

why should I, a boring law abiding citizen

Human beings are all "give an inch, take a mile." We have to be constantly put in check, or we will reach farther. Give us enough rope, and we will often hang ourselves. This is why we have laws, social norms, and communities. This also applies to humans who run the government.
Or USB amps for that matter.
That may be, but if it's ridiculous, it's not because it's ridiculous to "make numbers illegal".

(If you're looking for more nits: this is also a misuse of the word "illegal", and further [and separately] it's not the numbers that are unlawful.)
> IME Haskell development has a sort of bell-curve to it. Initially, you're spending a lot of time prototyping, fumbling around trying to find the right abstractions. Here Haskell mostly gets in the way: you have to declare up-front which functions do I/O, etc

There's some evidence Haskell is pretty good at rapid prototyping.

Are you familiar with this '94 paper on rapid prototyping [ http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1049.pdf ] by Paul Hudak (RIP), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research & ARPA? The paper is a report on an experimental comparison of programmming languages for prototyping, and it's pretty cool because they were asked to implement a portion of a (heavily simplified) AEGIS weapons system! Unfortunately the paper and experiment are dated and have a number of methodological shortcomings (results were self reported; the examining panel didn't look at running code; requirements were very vague and mostly determined by each team, which makes the comparison difficult), but the results are pretty interesting regardless:

- Of all the teams, only the two Haskell teams delivered working code (though the examiners didn't look at working programs). This must be stressed: no other team delivered running code at all, much less on time!

- One of the Haskell prototypes delivered more features than the initial requirements asked for.

- The programmer of one of the Haskell teams had NO experience with Haskell before the experiment.

- Both Haskell prototypes were also the shortest in line count. Way shorter than the C++ prototype, which wasn't even finished or working in time!

I'd like to see the same experiment repeated under more rigorous conditions and with more modern languages, but the results certainly hint at Haskell being more than adequate at prototyping.
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> swallowing an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills

If you wanted to induce a placebo effect, playing up the potency of the sugar pill would be helpful - for example saying "Do not, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, take more than two, as this can result produce DANGEROUS effects" is a lot better than going "Ehh, take more if it'll make you feel better, this stuff's completely inert anyways.".

I believe we already do this in medical field: for example those big ibuprofens they give you after a trip to the ER. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it the exact. same. thing. as just taking multiple over-the-counter ibuprofen pills? The underlying idea being that the patient will be satisfied the doctor is "doing something" to alleviate his pain, while not having to write risky pain killer Rx.

Maybe, homeopathy works in a similar way - it gives a compelling sci-fi / witchcraft / whatever-you-fetish backstory to a sugar pill. And when your subconscious buys in, you may cure yourself. Certainly with the example of insomnia, it seems quite plausible.
Yeah they've completely lost me with this update. Want a 15" model with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD (i.e., something that will last a reasonable amount of time)? Toss in AppleCare and you're looking at $3K. I have a mental barrier at around the $2200 mark -- I could afford it, but I just can't justify spending that much on a laptop with fairly pedestrian specs.
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Have you guys tried using this monitor with a Windows Notebook like the XPS 13 or 15? I wonder how the intercompatibility is between the "for Apple" branded LG Monitors and the Standard USB-C TB3 Devices.
Which front page? It has ~600 upvotes on Reddit, so no reason for it to be on the front page there, unless you're subscribed to that subreddit.

If you mean on HN, it's on the front page for me now.
Most languages have Undefined and Implementation specific behavior. Few languages have so carefully specified their undefined behavior as C++ though.
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I'm willing to wager that 95% of teams don't have a choice when it comes to a lot of this stuff. The burndowns and standups are mandated by management. So a lot of this "If your Agile isn't working for you, just change it!" doesn't really apply.
The toothbrush has a single purpose. The cable could be used to charge and to transfer data. It can't be used for the second case for no good reason apart of saving a couple bucks per box. I'm pretty sure Jobs wouldn't have it.
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Translated English version can be found here[0].

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> throw in a couple of USB-C to USB-A adapters in the box.

How do you expect Apple to sell them for $20 a pop then?
There was some humorous homeopathic reasoning in the article where a weasel claimed that the extensive processing cosmetic products require might remove the components that make aloe, aloe, but its still an aloe product, which is kind of like claiming I'm still drinking orange juice if I extensively process it to remove everything but the H2O molecules. Sure chemically speaking its distilled pure water now, but once upon a time it was orange juice.
> Its not just recordings, but raw material to be edited and spliced together.

"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." ~ Cardinal Richelieu
^[ is what ESC sends to a terminal, so CTRL-[ and ESC are equivalent.
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We currently are passing events to Google Analytics, but of course GA gives aggregated data, we want to know which individual users did these actions etc.

I know Mixpanel is often recommended for this type of tracking and analysis. Is there competitors we should look at, including just tracking the users in our own database?
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As someone who has to deal with mobile perf issues, JSON serialization/deserialization can take a lot more of a perf budget than you realize. A flatbuffer version would definitely be faster hands down.

With gzip sizing is about the same, but processing speed wise it is not.
>MXNet can consume as little as 4 GB of memory when serving deep networks with as many as 1000 layers.

So perhaps I'm not well versed enough in deep learning, but does this mean that they solved the vanishing gradient problem? How are they managing to do this?
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The people who do this probably know, not only rationally but also emotionally, that the difference between 100 and 2000 feet is only a few seconds: the seconds that you stay alive longer if you fall from the latter height.
Looks like issue will be resolved soon:

https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/765414528951529472

.@flanvel Thanks for noticing. A refreshed canary statement will be up shortly.

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Disregard, I forgot to check date.

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That tweet is from august
Also super expensive, I don't think performance is much different so you're really choosing between form factors and price I think.
Great job! I looks a lot like the designs by Ray Jardine which were my first sewing products.
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I'd say this is blatant non-sense usually coming from people who lack any kind of experience in C++, Scala or both.
Honest question. Why webhooks over something like push/pull handshaked socket?
The budding discussion in these comments reminds me of the classic post "What Colour are your bits?" - http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Well I was basing mine on the original. If peopleNamed in fact returns a list, then I'm not really sure what it's doing to create that? (I assumed your example was Haskell, in which case I don't think it can do anything particularly useful)

In any case, all you'd need to add is something like concat.