skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Paul Graham
- Pieter Thiel
- Sam Altman & Elon Musk (on OpenAI)
- Albert Wenger (on Universal Capital and how we'll deal with AI without a total economic collapse)
Haven't read the article yet, but the problem I find with this attitude generally is that the constraints found in FP are what I find valuable, and what are usually missing from languages which support functional approaches.
One of the issues with blockchain solutions in general is they usually DON'T mean proof of work. It's generally a proof of stake solution, which is honestly not that much different than some sort of certificate based system.
Solid, reliable are very desired but you have to also consider, support, trust and control.

I know this is difficult and painful but not impossible and really worth. Recent news of gitlab moving out of cloud to own infra is worth looking. These [1,2] are worth looking at.

For a start, here is a very brief answer. I'm sorry if it doesn't answer your question neatly.
One of my seniors gave me this advice and I am more than indebted for that.

For anything (e.g. data, email) you think is critical for you, you should try to host it yourself (on prem or VPS) and (not or) some backup with a company which you trust. e.g. Your email address should be yours, you may still forward lot of your email to gmail but you don't use the gmail address for anything critical. Fastmail for email, backblaze for backup may also be good alternatives. Disclaimer: not affiliated to fastmail/backblaze; though a happy user.

The advantage is you get good support from these guys and it's well worth the price.

Again it's not simple and one has to do a serious cost/benefit analysis.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/5cp9ol/gitlab_movin...
I basically agree with you, but there is just a lot of people that don't. In IT you can get pretty far, without a degree. I did so, and I am very happy with that choice.

I don't see that working for a lot of other people I know.

I think the US is approaching numbers where you might really be better of without a degree in a increasing number of fields.
I don't understand. What is so cool about this board ?
same here. perhaps it's a domain use previously for a bad purpose? "Site is blocked for a Security Threat"
Young males actually have higher car insurance premiums than older people or young females, because of risk considerations, just as an example.

And I'm not sure what sexual orientation has to do with any of this.

Nice bait, I guess?
I'm very happy with the eero APs I got a few months ago. Super simple to set up, auto-adjusting, auto-updating, auto-meshing. We have a big house and a lot of neighbor interference, and these are the first APs I've ever had that "just work".
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How do you even manage this amount of information? A notebook can help but once you hit the 20 applications mark, it's impossible to know to which companies you applied for.
That used to be a common argument against atheism but I think it's been largely debunked over time (e.g. people can live without religion and won't necessarily replace it with something worse). There's also a distinction to be made between voluntary association through shared interests (e.g. on Hacker News) versus a largely irrational allegiance towards a nation state (which is not usually a deliberate decision but a product of the birth lottery).

I do agree that the modern welfare state would likely be difficult to maintain without national identity.
I would like to see blochain or maybe just git replace the bill writing process. It would be nice to know who contributed what part to a 2000 page bill
Doesn't that yield a whole class of problems though that we're trying to solve with obtuse solutions such as "let's make that character set in red so people don't get phished"? How is that any more international and/or easy to use?

It seems that putting the allowed character set into the tld would be a pretty user-friendly way of doing that.

Edit: As an added bonus, tlds are centrally managed, and are already western/latin encoded. So why not customize it with a localized abbreviation for the language or tld type?
>Am I crazy?

Yes, for hosting your own mail server! I read and remember that it is quite annoying to maintain it and get it right so you won't get flagged as spam.

That's why I just pay $5/month to fastmail instead, so I do not have to worry.
I have moved my mail, contacts and calendars to FastMail.com for the exact same reason a few months ago. 50$/year buys me some peace of mind. I use personal domain, so that I am not locked to them in case things go wrong.

Currently those guys are just amazing - the have proper iOS push notifications support, for example, which is not present in Gmail (fucking political reasons, I believe).
Of course, if we're being pedantic about details, that still puts the depth the Nautilus reached at over a kilometre into the earth's crust below even the deepest part of the known ocean...
"ownership" has nothing to do with why scalping is frowned upon / policed. Scalping is a problem because the goal of scalping is to buy something that's limited in supply so that it can be resold at a higher markup. It's purely an issue because supply is limited, it has nothing to do with ownership.

Concerts are always limited in supply, which is why scalping is prevalent there more than most other things. If tickets were infinite in supply nobody would care about concert scalpers, that wouldn't exist.

And the reason this matters to places selling things limited in supply is that scalpers hurt consumer satisfaction and generate negative impressions of the seller due to greedy opportunists that were otherwise outside of their control. Thus why they place limits on how many you can buy until supply is high enough (like in this case how Google had a limit of buying 5 devices - enough for most families, not enough for re-sellers)
There was a similiar site a while ago. I forgot the link. I remember only that it was yellow :)

They should link to site like this one:
http://fddb.info
I guess people already know about what to expect from the story of Sun.
The book is probably a case of somebody working on it to make a handful of copies to satisfy somebody's ego. Selling more copies is just gravy.
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No, that's not possible. If the assumption is that a secret inserted at time T1 can be retrieved after time T2 without receiving any input not available at time T1, nothing stops Evie from pretending it is T2 and recovering the secret _now_.

If the assumption is that extra input is needed that will be supplied at time T2, that extra input is a password/decryption key, and people using this device must trust that this key will not be released early, and will be released at T2 if condition C is not met.

The best you can do is to distribute the decryption key at time T1 over a group of people using a method that allows any N people to recover the key and doesn't allow N-1 users to do so. If N is large enough, users might be convinced the secret will not come out early. If it is small relative to the total group having part of the secret, users might be convinced the secret will certainly come out at time T2. Both conditions can be met at the same time, but it still would require trust.
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Same thing can be said for object-oriented programming, unfortunately.
It must be because I have TV through them because I literally begged them and offered other pricing to not use their router and they said it was not possible.

I also confirmed this a while back on some forums but perhaps they have changed this. It is good to hear you had success. Do you have a residential or biz plan?

Edit:

Here is the link (I was mistaken and thought it was on a forum): http://theassociatespress.com/bypass-fios-router-entirely/

Like I said before it is pretty non trivial and you have to plead your case to them to let it happen.
Yes, but they are in the wrong business, then. it is a sports business - what does it have to do with academia?
This is a very tough thing to address if you're a security researcher say for the government. The likes become blurry on what is ethical and what's needed for keeping weapons that can protect us..
Peter Diamandis (okay, he's done a lot of interviews and blogs a lot, but has a great perspective on the impact of tech on humanity)
I live in London (my neighbours are a LOT closer than 1/4 mile) with a shitload of devices on my WiFi and I can still happily stream 4K TV while my my entire family uses iPads or laptops. Am I breaking the laws of physics?
That is what RFC6724 recommends as the default:

> Another effect of the default policy table is to prefer communication using IPv6 addresses to communication using IPv4 addresses, if matching source addresses are available.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6724#section-2.1
Blacks (or African Americans) are less intelligent than other ethnicities, in average. We have information that satisfies your two criteria of supporting class information. Yet people on HN (liberals/progressives) will get upset with this fact.

Supporting classes:

1. Through employment, high school graduation, incarceration, and homicide rates.

2. Due to black cultural, male macho-independence, discrimination from non-blacks, and poor family values.

We have evidence for this, not from machine learning, but from human observation. Yet we're not allowed to use these statistically significant generalizations?
Not that I'm an Oracle fan, but they do continue to develop MySQL. Both in terms of features and performance.

Oracle still invests heavily in the development of the JVM (graal and truffle aim to advance the state of art in JIT compilers)

So it's definitely not all bad (virtualbox is also used by many but unlike MySQL I don't follow the development)
Most people would agree that in functional programming we can pass functions around as first class objects. What we disagree on is the definition of function.
Under their tools menu, they have a report that calculates it for you.
The baiter just got burned.
Calls to use blockchain to solve every problem are comical. The people who make those calls have no concept of what a blockchain is, how it works, and will stare dumbfounded if asked "what exactly is a coprime number"?

Instead of quantum computing solving all our problems, the new shiny red ball is blockchain.
- Hard tech founders

- Kyle Vogt from Cruise Automation (specifically interested in how he became such a good engineer), he hardly has any interviews that talk about this

- Nothing really public from Helion Energy, could be interesting

- What did founders do in the early days to develop technical chops while remaining frugal? This seems to be more than just learning syntax and really worth discussing.

- If great companies start as projects, have an entire discussion about that and what shape those take (if it's just a side project, do you do user interviews? Etc.)

- How to pick growth metrics in hard tech startups

- President of University of Waterloo or Eric from Pebble and what about the school creates such great engineers/founders and how Americans can emulate that

- FarmLogs Founders: Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch

- A discussion on blending strategy with acting quickly and developing really great, original ideas (and how they evolve from small projects)

- Anything with Qasar again, that guy is the real deal

- "The best founders may be working on things that seem small but get them done extraordinarily quickly" - discussion on this

- Mike Duncan from BankJoy

- Adam D'Angelo from Quora

- Rob Rhinehart from Soylent

- FLEX Fits
Indeed there seem few disciplines where you really need much equipment for bachelor's degree study. Even in science where it's nice to be able to do stuff in labs, really you can learn pretty much all of it from books.
Yes, it wasn't clear, but I don't think ad blockers should be so agressive against harmless static ads. Being able to create custom rules should be enough. That was just an example of why I don't thinking browsing "shields down" by default is a valid option. Even the most reputable sites (and regardless of one's politics, the Guardian is reputable) are a minefield.
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Since the 80's, the state of Montana has banned insurance underwriting based on gender. There have been attempts to reverse that law, but none have passed.

My male Montana cousins always had slightly cheaper insurance than I did, but my female Montana cousins more than made up for it.
Well said. I can write exceedingly low defect code without folds. I can't do so with implicit IO everywhere, ad hoc polymorphism, and dynamic typing.
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Doing the "ɢ" conversion here[0], I get

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Is there a "first bought, first sold" clause in US tax law regarding securities, or is it the average purchase value of your total holdings during a sale that counts?

E.g. I buy 10 BTC for $1 and then buy 10 BTC for $50 and then sell 10 BTC for $100: I have to pay tax on ($100-$1)
>Give some sort of limit - 10/20/30 years? - and some sort of max% of income - 10%?. If the loan isn't paid off by the end of the limit at a max % of income, then the loan can then be discharged by bankruptcy.

This is how it's more or less handled in Canada. You're able to discharge your student loans through bankruptcy 7 years after you graduated. It prevents abuse, while offering some respite to those who fall into deep financial problems. Seems fair to me.
I think this is true about more than just commutes. Aside from Instagram and this place, social media just makes me disgusted by my friends and the media. What's the point of something that worsens relationships, which are the only thing that matters? Maybe this election made me realize how angry and unfocused it all makes me feel, but either way I've blocked those sites with an extension.

I feel much calmer now, and I'm pretty sure I'm more productive. I also feel like I have more energy for things that matter, like going to the gym frequently. I think "the feed" of social media is exhausting and unending, and feels very unhealthy.
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Making a modern, responsive, mobile-aware website seems like a huge learning curve right now.

It would be great if there was a tool that let you use simple markdown, took a few options, and generated beautiful static pages like e.g. Medium with a minimum of hassles.

I guess a lot of people use WordPress with themes, or Weebly, SquareSpace but it still seems pretty complicated.
Generally we're most of us in society pretty comfortable with paying for the continuation of the species. There are exceptions to every rule, of course; some of us (not including me) are unhappy we pay to pave the streets, too.
Is an e-mail copy receipt sufficient for the IRS? As a small business, we travel a lot and obviously book travel online (as well as make a number of other business purchases online).

I've never even considered that the e-mail receipt or purchase history on Amazon.com might not be sufficient documentation. Is this something I should spend the next half-hour researching, or am I concerned over nothing?
I feel like several of the other books make it quite clear that invincible, well-meaning good guys can cause a lot of pain. Sometimes it works, sometimes they convince themselves that it was worth it, because clearly their ideology is the better one, sometimes they are terribly sorry for what they did. In any case it will hurt if you are on the wrong end of their meddling. And most of their population doesn't care or even notice, so happy or unhappy are they in their utopia. Really, tons of material to draw parallels from, to all sorts of things in our lives.
The article barely mentions the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes - that did more to awaken people to the potential hazard. Most kiwis know about the Napier earthquake in 1932 but it's a distant memory and until 2010 big earthquakes were always something that occurred in remote places like Dusky Sound or Inangahua.
Auto and life insurance are usually more expensive for men, but health insurance is usually more expensive for women. It would be interesting to see who comes out ahead overall.
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I've been able to find a lot of resources about building transistors from scratch. What I can't find is documentation on the process of building smaller transistors. Assuming for a second money for development is not a issue, where would you start? What terms would you search for? Are there books or papers available, or is all the technology and knowledge needed kept secret by companies like intel?
Well, if it was on Linux, it could have been that people were excited for the release, but it wasn't available on their distro's repo yet. I've definitely been really excited for a feature and then discovering it doesn't work once it's available in my repo 6 months later.

As much as I like the repo system (and C), I was pretty impressed by an experience I had a little while ago. I found a bug in Atom after a new release. I was able to track down the cause in about an hour, and the person who made the commit that caused the bug fixed it an hour later. The bug fix release was available within 24 hours or so. I don't know JS or Coffeescript, but it was verbose enough that I was able to track down the bug and get it fixed without having to wait for the bug to be accepted upstream, or download and compile the package. Compiling a package isn't hard, but I only do it for the software I really want the most recent version of.
I bought an Amplifi with high expectations, and my expectations were exceeded. The router is great, but my favorite part is the included smartphone app. It makes diagnosing network problems, enabling guest networks, figuring out who's using all the bandwidth a cinch.

As I write this, I realize it sounds like an ad, so for clarity: I'm in no way affiliated with Ubiquiti - just a satisfied customer.
I just want to emphasize the fact that not only is the .NET Micro Framework something that exists, but that it has been available since 2009 and remains so, under the items of an arguably much more agreeable license: Apache 2.0
I see this timeline comparison very often and it seems to me very hand wavy. Sure, it's a nice narrative, but I don't see any real reasons why this 'pattern' from 70s to 00s should repeat itself. We're talking 30 odd years here. That we got here because of a series of logical steps is already quite a statement without extending it to the future! (I borrow Nassim's Black Swan perspective here) In hindsight it's easy to say that this happened because of that, and so on, and I'm not sure this automagically extends to blockchain related things. If we're set on talking about 5 to 25yrs, could you share your vision sans historical comparison? Otherwise, or additionally, could you share your opinion on what the more immediate potential wins of bitcoin/ethereum et al are?
If only v6 is available there is no point for them to include the site in their general index.

If both v4 and v6 access is available, what is the extra value of doing the indexing using v6 rather than v4? (The indexing process itself would add very little to the global usage of v6, comparatively speaking.)
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That's just one aspect of functional programming. By that definition, almost any modern language is functional.
How do you measure impact on society?
I'm not sure you're following my point. Conservatives should be no happier than liberals about the prospect of a deeply imperfect status quo being baked into future decisionmaking, because there's much about the status quo conservatives don't like either.

This isn't even remotely far-fetched. If you're a rural working class person, it's not at all hard to see how machine learning algorithms could adversely affect decisions about your insurance rates, loan acceptances, sentencing, the frequency with which your homes and businesses are inspected, and so on.

The idea that "discrimination" is somehow a progressive bugbear is --- well, I don't know how better to say this --- deeply stupid. Swirling eyes-within-eyes sticking out from blobs of fur inverted machine learning stupid.
I think you're spot on with your analysis.

The hope (for me), is that some middle ground is reached. Make it ok again to build normal-size houses (1200-1500 sq. ft.) in nice neighborhoods with nice schools.
Now ISPs should also stop dragging their feet.
It's an argument against using red as the only warning sign.

Compare to Chrome's https indicator- it turns the "https://" part of the URL green (which I can barely distinguish as different, so it is useless to me) and adds a padlock icon.

Colorblind-friendly graphs might use both color and symbols to distinguish elements.
> decentralization exists when a small enough community can be self-policing and actors have noble goals.

Well, the idea is to build decentralized systems that are self-policing in an automated fashion, such as with smart contracts. The thought is that previous efforts failed because the bookkeeping involved in decentralization is prohibitive without such automation.

Admittedly, a lot of work remains to prove this can work in practice.
It's not that I don't trust my ISP provided router/modem combo - it's that it was a pile of crap. They almost all are!

Bought my own modem + router and saw my speeds go from ~40mbs to 120+mbs. Upload speed also saw a similar scale increase.
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I moved from Chicago (One of the cheaper "big cities" that actually has jobs), to a medium sized city (population: 250k).

I got almost double the house size, and 1/2 of grass to call my own... but now I can't walk anywhere, and life is too short to spend it on a mower. Plus I now spend a ton to take care of my house/yard, and I need a car, etc. etc.

Big city life is the way to go ;)
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Say what you want about biological plausibility. But in other cultures/countries around the world, Blacks consistently underperform (any metric you like: marriage success, salary, mortality rate, graduation, etc.) compared to other ethnic groups. What will convince you it is in fact a biological difference?

Despite what the American declaration of independence says (whether you are American or not), no, not all people were born or created equally. Additionally, of the ones born equally, they do not have equal rights or opportunities to pursue of happiness.
> 100X reduction in training time compared to GPUs

Sounds great, when will it..

>Intel loosely laid down plans to eventually integrate the unique Nervana architecture with Xeons this week, but was hesitant to put a year stamp on when that might happen.

So their theoretical eventual integration is hypothetically 100x faster than current-gen GPUs?

If they can deliver, great news for deep learning - but this seems like a lot of speculation.
Wow that's a nice chapter. I always wanted to review L and H principles. Thx for the link.
The Apple AirPort extreme is of little interest to me, it's the AirPort Express I care about. I haven't found any real good replacement for those.

I have two and they've been running for 8 or 10 year, with out failure.