skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar time-frame and platform. We opted to use Realm instead because it offers encrypted storage exposed to React-Native. Would have loved to use *ouchDB but this was a missing critical piece.
1. Translate everything that isn't english to it, and delete all forms of other languages. All communication/docs/code-comments/file-names/whatever need to be in english.

2. Create low-effort/starter issues, and mark them as that for starter people to implement.
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Was about to share this as well. They are 802.3af PoE compatible now too. Not terribly expensive compared to those listed in the article, especially when installing 70+ in a hotel.
Cloudcraft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722942

Show HN was the first place I posted about it, almost exactly one year ago. Today it is doing very well, used by companies large and small to visualize their AWS environments.
I think the article is talking about this here:

"You don't try to suppress— “Don't give me attitude for all I've done for you!” What research shows is that it will lead to escape behavior on the part of the child. It will lead them to avoid you as soon as they get home from school and it will model negative interactions toward you."
Personally I look at multiple sources. I try to focus on the least biased ones and then look at where the reports differ and presume that's where the bias lies.
More fun because don't have to deal with hardware? soo... where is the fun?
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FTP needs no defending -- it was really useful in 1979, but times have changed (e.g. I suspect every machine on the Internet uses an 8-bit byte). One point you wrote surprised me though:

> no clear client/server relationship which can cause issues for NATing and filewalls (particularly if running with TLS)

Really, crocks like NAT and stateful firewalls should die. Layers 4 and below are inherently peer-peer -- the net should not treat endpoints differently (i.e. should not privilege some over others). That simply encourages a "client" or "consumer" mentality in both the technical and social senses.
Moqups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222992

We're still bootstrapped and fairly small (< 25 employees including the founders). We've grown organically to about 1 million users since then. The feedback we've got on our submission back then gave us enough courage to go from just a pet side-project to a full time business, so Big Thanks HN! That day was one of the happiest days in the history of our business.
Maybe you can't, and that's fine. For me, being able to work on stuff on one machine, then jump over to another one of my machines and it's just there is hugely valuable. The backup element is kinda secondary but nice to have.
It may not be supported but the wrote a blog post about it a while ago. "Our product can be used on RN! (but don't ask us for support.)"
Well at least they don't try to pass off HTML as Code
I actually thought this was some kind of laptop for awhile, even after reading much of the front page. I googled Jupyter Notebook after a few context clues finally tipped me off. I just thought I was being dense, though.
Introduce a struck rule: If you don't touch it for a year throw it out. And do the same thing with all your stuff. Freedom man
Perhaps FB would benefit from a check or looks-interesting reaction
+1 Addressing the root cause of the obsession is the healthy solution. This sounds more of a psychological issue rather than technical. But know it can be addressed, and I also encourage you to seek professional assistance.
> Maybe in these cases, wait-free would be more appropriate...

In some cases wait-free algorithms are used (e.g. real-time Java queues).

There's ongoing research into whether lock-free queues are wait-free in practice.[0] For example, under some reasonable scheduling assumptions, lock-free operations have been shown to have bounded time execution.[1] That's a result for uniprocessors. I'm not aware of a corresponding result for multiprocessors, but I haven't gone looking for a couple of years. There are some leads in the first citation.

[0] "Are Lock-Free Algorithms Practically Wait-Free?" http://tce.technion.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2015/06...

[1] Anderson, J. H. et al. 1997. “Real-Time Computing with LockFree Shared Objects.” ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 15(2):134–165 https://cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/tocs97.pdf
Um, we are talking about the nutrition facts label printed by the manufacturer, not the various stories the media hypes up about the nutrients themselves.

Even when the manufacturer posts the claim on the packaging, they have to use specific language indicating the claims haven't been verified by the FDA.
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I'm not big into IoT yet - what sort of devices would it be necessary for the network to remain functional if there was no internet connection?
Open private museum of computer hardware! Keep buying!

Idea: http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/1210_Home.htm
I'm glad this has finally occurred. Was pushing for Google to do more along this lines for awhile. I know it's never ideal that Google has more information on people but for those of us who work all the time with people at risk (activists, journalists, aid workers etc) this tool will genuinely save lives.
Here's a thing, how about getting into making biological computers, artificial wetware. Thre are researchers doing this with some degree of success. I' pretty sure you could research the state of the art online and to try to grow your own Manic Miner...
Except for the fire extinguisher, of course.
>> "We founded the company on the premise that many of our complex social problems are becoming increasingly stuck"

Real AI will not simplify the complexities of social problems — and to believe so shows a complete lack of understanding of those problems and what real AI will become.
Highly depends on the makeup of your electrical wiring. To get good performance:

- always plug directly into walls, never into extensions, or multi plugs.

- don't even try to jump phases, performance will be atrocious but...

- if you have to, there are phase converters that you can install into your mains

There's a huge performance gap between cheap and expensive homeplug kits, and protocol implementation varies miserably between manufacturers. Also lowest speed adapter determines network speed.

So ideally you want to buy Devolo or TP-Link Homeplug AV1200 kits with integrated power outlets, stick them into walls directly and you can absolutely get a solid Gigabit without running cable through walls.

I do absolutely agree that troubleshooting is a horrible pain however.
> Literacy isn't about forcing people to learn things, it's about ensuring that everyone has the baseline exposure to help them discover if they have an interest in a topic, and then the resources to explore that topic if they choose.

That sounds hilariously naive. If we'd let people decide themselves what they want to learn the majority would still be in the sandbox making castles and playing with toys all day.
Nothing changes. If something did change, that could[1] mean that information about your solution was being leaked (since this means that different solutions behave differently under the ZKP process, which cannot be the case for it to be zero-knowledge).

ZKP is about proving you have a solution. If you have many, good for you.

[1]: Not always, I think.
I've noticed that with text files that are not large, but not that large, almost all the text editors I've found on Android choke badly for simple things like moving around in the file. For example, my main org-mode file at work is 560K. The only appified text editor on Android that handles it reasonably is VimTouch (Emacs, vim, and similar all handle it easily in a Debian chroot on the same hardware). So it has to be the case that better data structures for text editing still matter in at least some realistic environments today.
Silicon Valley's sustainability problem
Ask HN: Has anyone sponsored a J1 specialist or trainee?
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to sponsor a foreign professional for a J1 visa to work with us. All the info I find links me to https://j1visa.state.gov/participants/how-to-apply/sponsor-search/?program=Specialist , which is a list of designated sponsors, mostly universities and cultural organizations... Do I have to apply through them? Doesn't make much sense...

Has anyone ever had to deal with a similar problem? We considered H1B but the process is costly and slow.

Any links, info or contacts are highly appreciated!! Thanks!
I'd like to reply to both of you. I like CoffeeScript mainly because it's so similar to Ruby and convenient to use. I have not thought about using the "raw generated js". How does it work for you ?

What if you would choose to work with something like React or Ember ?
CANDU reactors in Canada, I think are designed to be run by nobody at all.

They require heavy water to keep the reaction going. No heavy water, it just cools down.

If anything 'breaks' - no heavy water, no chain reaction.

I'm grossly oversimplifying, but you get the idea.

I suggest that if we actually put our minds to it, we could develop a kind of 'dumb reactor' that didn't require any kind of intervention at all, other than maintenance.
Half a trillion over half a decade is 100 billion per year.

I make no claim to the accuracy of the original statistic, but if that is the case and the federal budget is 3.7 trillion [0] that is 2.7 percent of the budget.

0: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51110
Does CoinFabrik (the startup you are at) use zero knowledge proofs in any form?
Oddly enough; I had purchased in Ireland. That year I moved to Australia and found that they pretty much honoured the original warranty.
Just assume every source has a hidden agenda and use your brain to decide what you think for yourself.
Ask HN: How to support someone with burnout syndrome?
A good friend of mine has a severe burnout syndrome and I would like to know how to help. And maybe more importantly, how NOT to help. The NOT is important since I see all his friends/family/etc. giving him unasked advice, which I fear will not make it better.
That can also be your present if you live near gypsies! :-)

http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20160224/30240231...
> am not a fan of FB but it must be understood that FB is not a news agency.

It doesn't matter what Facebook calls itself. It has power, and responsibility follows.

> The mainstream US media is suppressing any criticism of Islam under the flimsy arguments like racism and islamophobia

I believe there's plenty of it in the news. Syria has been a top story for three years running. Everyone knows how Saudi-Arabia treats women. Everybody knows who was responsible for Charlie Hebdo.

Beyond that, it's not in the news because (a) it's not "new" and (b) there is nothing gained from a collective mob against islam. Bombing doesn't help. Being condemned by Americans also doesn't change a single mind in the mideast.

Instead, you get the opposite. How many stories have we had about muslims being forced off airplanes because they spoke Arabic or "looked like a terrorist". Of course they're usually professors of philosophy who grew up in the UK and studied at Harvard.
That's what he wants you to think!
> and to believe so shows a complete lack of understanding of those problems and what real AI will become

When the CEO of one of the most well-known AI-companies makes a claim you disagree with, you should probably give a better reason for him being wrong than "a complete lack of understanding".
I have the latest Unifi system and a similar about of devices/hardware: the problems have been resolved, and a known fix is to disabled forced band steering. It all works great.
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Watching a movie or listening to music stored on your NAS. Turning your "smart" light off and on. Using your remote (since even those are cloud connected now).

You know, everyday stuff, for which modern IoT equivalents somehow need internet connectivity to work.
I hope flatpack becomes the de facto standard. It seems to solve problems the right way.

Between that and wayland being ready for showtime, I think the future of linux looks pretty good!
Science with this many variables is messy and has error. But as any good scientist knows, errors are there to help us iterate our models to be less wrong. Frthermore, our computers are literally thousands (^more) of times faster than in 1990, and computational modelling science has improved exponentially as well. Therefore to complain that science wasn't as good in 1990 is merely descriptive, and a good thing. You're assuming everything is static, and should be error-free predictable. That's really not how epistemology works.
For a non-mathematical explanation of the core idea behind SNARK, see http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/03/05/exploring-zero-... (I've attempted to make it accessible to people with a minimal background in these things)

(I wrote this after being fascinated by the explanation of the core idea in https://people.xiph.org/~greg/simple_verifyable_execution.tx..., but finding that post too complicated to share with my non-crypto physics friends)
Clickbait^2.

Having nothing better to do Author Candida Moss took a tour around the web, found a 2015 article on modernnotion (that cites a 2012 Slate article) and completely failed to even copy properly the relevant parts.

"The historian Josephus tells us that an irreverent Roman soldier lowered his pants, bent over, and “spoke such words as you might expect upon such a posture.”"

Not that the original Slate article is that much accurate, but at least there the Roman soldier is lifting his robe ...

The idea of the Roman soldier who lowers his pants is however so funny ...
> Just as knowing why apples fall down and aeroplanes fly up, the citizens of the 21st century need to know that computers are not magical boxes but composed of dynamic models.

I'm not sure most of the public could explain why gravity works, or how an airplane actually gets in the sky. This is because most people are not inquisitive by nature, they generally take things at face value without questioning why. This kind of attitude does not work if you want to build something complex whether it be software, a car, or a bridge. I think the first step is how we as a society can encourage a generation of thinkers and tinkerers.
>other applications

Any applications with a keyboard and mouse? Can I use emacs and have it start learning to code?
> When I drive my car, I just want to get from point A to point B while listening to a podcast. I don't care to know how they work.

Yet, you've spent months explicitly training for that task.
In < 50 years well have robots or remotely controlled robots that can go in there and clean it up.
I have agree with you half don't, I train Australian Shepherds and I can say without a doubt that positive enforcement works better then positive punishment. I have worked with 2 Chihuahuas in my lifetime, but were little pieces of shit that don't respond to anything either way.

So I guess we should clicker train our black/brown haired fat kids and the blonde skinny ones are screwed.

Seriously though, your post makes me think about how dogs/child teaching is all in what you have and psychologist (maybe news) try to apply one method to all of them. It just doesn't work, some kids need one thing and others need something else. We live in such a crazy complex world.
Yup, hosting it ourselves. Its a peach. There are few things that it doesnt come with out of the box - clustering, Full text search, geoindexing, chained map reduce, auto compaction, index auto-updation. Once thats done, if anything it was more forget about it than Cloudant, which bills on requests / thoroughput. This can catch you out because continuous replications between databases on the same cloudant account are also counted as requests and billed as such. And continuous replication is very chatty. So if you have a particularly creative multi-master setup, like a per user db -> masterdb kind of thing going, this can eat up your thoroughput / push up your bills with no practical benefit.

Its really openresty + couch that does it for me. The idea of writing security / validations / routing etc right into ngnix combines beautifully with the CouchDB way of thinking.
if i log in it just tells me i dont have location services enabled ;)....
Something that has been useful for me was making the Google account with random credentials (name, age, etc.). This way, at least they're tracking a non-existent person.
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Having worked in education with a wide range of kids (age, temperament, etc.), my view is that these articles are a good read. However, they are written for the masses. To get views. They distill (I hope) tons of research and case studies into a catchy, generalized piece of advice. It sounds good and is definitely worth trying, but under no means should anyone point to such an article as an end all be all solution to raising children. Your example is exactly why. Matters in life are rarely so simple as to be explained away in a single article. There's always going to be a part of the bell curve that gets left out when writing articles like this. Just something for everyone to keep in mind.
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funny enough, I have extended family in India that went through the entire process and had lots of issues, but even then, I only heard praises of the govt's efforts, nothing against it.

After you mentioned, I decided to look up news against the effort and I realized there was a lot of news against it but it not only didn't appear on my Facebook, but also on Twitter and Reddit (one of the few places where I expected to see opposing view points).
This story is obviously sourced mainly from Raphel and her friends/allies. Personally I view the FBI investigation as them just doing their jobs. In the end this wasn't really a failure on their part, assuming the innocent reason for all the suspicion was true, they investigated her as they were tasked and the DoJ ended the investigation when they realized there was no case.

I think the interesting story is the change in culture at the State Department which has the effect of getting less human intelligence. I'm not sure if that's because they want to be cooped up in their embassies because they feel less safe meeting with people in certain host countries, or if security requirements are being imposed on them. Clearly in this case Raphel felt restricted and she had no problem, but I'm not sure other State Deparment employees feel the same.

Benghazi and the Camp Chapman attack [1] are pretty good reasons why they should be concerned about security.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack
Why use Ivy when there is Maven?
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Genuine request: what kinds of conversation / arguments tend to work for people who think science is cultish, and might help it to seem less so. This is of course for those willing to engage with you rationally? (although counter-emotive arguments are also good, and maybe more effective). I have a Republican friend who will engage with my and she sees a 'groupthink' problem. Your advice may be invaluable in helping to open up discourse.
A legitimate line of work with a long tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist
What's more, I'm fairly certain developers would prefer smaller, incremental, and separate improvements to their software ecosystems.

"One library to rule them all" isn't as compelling as the UNIX principle. Because when one of these systems is proven to be inefficient or buggy, it doesn't discredit the entire library.

I want some of these parts in some of my apps. But not all, always.
Depending on what you're doing - deploy a webservice with Azure ML?
If it's true, I believe we have to wait for the OpenAI team to build new gym environments before we can train in new games.

I only briefly poked around because it's nearing on midnight here - maybe you can pull open the examples included and work out how to rewire them to work on new games, maybe not. Either way, I've got a particular use case I'd like to make a gym for so I'm interested in finding out.
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For what its worth, the base algorithm is extremely similar in concept to an Erlang queue implementation I saw recently [1]. But I do like doing these language implementation comparisons. The Erlang one definitely suffers from the base language being copy-on-write though.

[1] - https://github.com/dstar4138/libemp/tree/develop/src/buffers...
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I guess with the OP is asking is: is there a technical reason that complex social problems are getting stuck. If so, how will general AI address those problems, and how will it itself avoid the same pitfalls?

It's not clear to me at all that throwing AI at a social problem somehow solves it, so...
Oxidation, faulty connections, composite video input, flaky FDDs, I don't miss that in the least

At least get a driver emulator hw that reads from SD/CF or maybe USB drives ;)
I stand corrected on the Linux IRQ point.

In the past I have not found Windows thread affinity APIs to provide hard guarantees. Perhaps this has changed since I last tried it.
> All comms are end-to-end encrypted... The certification also requires ...strict guidelines on security...

So what you're saying is that, in the UK, your water meter and electrical appliances are required to have a higher level of security than your online browsing is allowed to have?

Gosh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption_ban_proposal_in_the...
I use VSCode for a few tasks and enjoy it, but Sublime is just so much more polished than anybody else. In addition, Atom/VSCode/ETC all have panes as an afterthought. Sublime's tabs/panes work far better and behave the way I expect them to.
You could make an argument that the elites of the past didn't do the worst job. The media was surprisingly independent (i. e.Watergate), and even the candidates for President were – for the most part – quite respectable even when they were decided on in smoke-filled back rooms.

I know it's fundamentally undemocratic. But pragmatically it wasn't the worst. Another example would be the trust people (used to) have in the Supreme Court. For most of the 20th century, it was the most rigorous intellectual and moral institution, even though it's the least democratic.
Not to be rude, but how often do you interact with other human beings?

Communication is a huge problem in everyday life. Anyone who has ever had even a short term SO (longer than a one night stand/few dates) has learned that it is important to be careful in how you phrase things and to understand that people may not understand what you were trying to say.
Might we also deduce that if not a nom de plume, Candida Moss is the result of botanically inspired parents?