skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see one vaguely like OkCupid, but with validation for everything.

A few things can be automatically checked, so they are free. Validating that you can send/receive email at a particular address is such a case.

Other things cost money to check, so there is a charge, and of course a markup. (this is the profit; nothing else to annoy people) For example, a credit score could be validated for a few dollars. For more money, they can fly somebody out to measure how big you are. Common things get standardized prices, but there is no limit to what you can ask them to verify. They can check property records, DNA, police reports, stock ownership, body parts, ancestry... the sky is the limit, from the mundane to the offensive.
Responses to a specific message are deterministic in this model (no diversity promoting objective implemented) so this is to be expected :)
I'd click on that.
For me, the ease of self-hosting my own source-code hub tipped the balance in favor of Fossil SCM, after I abandoned Subversion. Ironically, the difficulty of self-hosting Git was the raison d'être for why inherently centralized services such as Github/Gitlab/etc were created in the first place, despite all the nice talk about distributed systems. There is no a priori reason why hosting a source code repo should be any different from hosting any random blog page. And Fossil is the proof that it can work.
Would this open the social structure to all sorts of disease states in a similar way to the human body?

Then you would need teams within the social structure who's role it is to seek out pathogenic agents / sub-structures and terminate them. An immune system, if you will. Analogy could be a police force to deal with auto-immune issues, and a military to deal with foreign invaders.

Well, in a way, our social / structural systems already do mimic bacterial colonies: reproduce by consuming all available resources until the host system dies or the infection is cleared.
I read it as you only use one service because there is only one good free one (= not willing to pay for a second copy = can't be that valuable)
As an experiment I think this is well done. It's fun to mash the keys and see what happens. If there was a feedback loop to register if the user was happy or displeased with the results via facial recognition or other input with expanded training data it could become quite interesting I think.

Thanks for this!
> SiH4 (silane) is an unstable, pyrophoric (spontaneously ignites in air)

I'm no chemist, and I buy the line of reasoning that Carbon is by far the most likely substrate for life, but this statement seems to assume an oxygen-rich atmosphere. That's another assumption that could, in theory I guess, be invalid.
How many orders of magnitude, exactly?

Bitcoin's maximum throughput is about 7 transactions per second. Superior blockchain implementations can generally achieve ~30 transactions per second for long term, effective operation.

Nasdaq's daily trades would require over 430 transactions per second. There are tradeoffs to be made (such as block size or integrity), but it's fundamentally not feasible to port our existing centralized ledger to a decentralized blockchain ledger.

This is just Nasdaq. Imagine trying to scale a decentralized blockchain to multiple markets, or to Visa's requirements, which are over 2000 transactions per second.

There is a variety of research on this topic:

http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf

http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/74bc987e6ab4a8478c04950616612...

http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf
The big nerd ranch books often have you build applications across a collection of chapters. I learned iOS development from their book; it's not a single project for the whole book, but there are large chunks that use the same example app that you add functionality to.

I love the the style of learning they advocate: reading the book and typing in every single line of code yourself. It suits my learning style really well.
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Reasonableness requires self-awareness and an appreciation for the common good. Its staggering how absent those qualities are in many people, and how these attributes evaporate in the face of strong emotion.

Regardless, the "Reasonable Person" is a staple in litigation, used as a benchmark for conduct where the specifics are too complicated or variable to consider individually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
If you don't want to deal with async stuff... then just don't use it. In the last week or two, I started a new personal project in Python, one where I decided from the outset to take full advantage of 3.6, and I don't have a single async, await, import asyncio, or @asyncio.coroutine anywhere in my code. It's not the kind of code I want to write, so I don't write it. Instead, I'm happy with f-strings and the ability to union dicts together [0].

I do agree though that the type annotations hurt the overall austere laconicity of Python code. I don't use them myself, and I'm lucky that I don't have to read through anyone else's code that uses them, so it's not quite a big deal (yet).

f-strings alone have made me not want to go back to any older version.

[0] {**foo, **bar} # where foo and bar are both dicts; introduced in Python 3.5
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Youtube resorting to interruption ads in the first place was equivalent to Tesla deciding to ship each car with a small internal combustion engine bolted on.

Considering the strides Amazon and Netflix have made with original content, I think Youtube should be viewed as having missed the boat in a pretty big way. All of the promising platform innovations that seemed worth waiting for now seem to have been put on hold in favor of prioritizing Google's ad revenue maximization.

The biggest of these are "autoplay" and the silly way that it chooses content to play next.

There seems to be some notion that consumers want to sit in front of youtube and gaze at it while it plays some bizarre mix of low quality user generated content and videos that consumers have watched before, while interspersing annoying ads that encourage the user to tap/click to dismiss the ad.

It's hard to imagine an experience that creates more annoyance. It's as if a fly is released into the room at the start of each video that lands on your ear, and you must either put up with it or exert effort to get rid of it.

Regular TV commercials should be viewed simply as a result a near monopoly for years, with viewers having no choice but to suffer through ads, and advertisers having no choice but to overpay for them.

I actively avoid watching youtube for these reasons, and consider it (as a product) a lot like SourceForge -- someone just trying to milk every ad dollar possible with no concern for the quality of the experience.

I hope this article means that there has been an inflection point and YouTube cannot continue to increase revenue by emulating the dated paradigm of broadacast TV.

Facebook, it seems, has already eaten Google's lunch on live video.
Glare. Overhead lights and the trend of GLOSSY MONITOR EVERYWHERE. If I'm stuck in an open office with overhead lights and a glossy monitor, I feel like a quarter of my attention is spent tracking moving objects in reflection.
It's opensource bro. Translate your problem to a requirement and impress us.
This article talking about charisma and a pastor's son reminds me of a book. A few months ago I stumbled upon "Handbook of Leadership Theory for Church Leaders - Drury Writing":
http://www.drurywriting.com/sharon/Handbook-LeadershipTheory...

What I loved was how it related academic leadership theory to a field seldom covered but in which leadership is very important. Also it is very easy to read for non academic people.
Rustbelt is a research project, and they're using Coq, which is interactive and requires a lot of user effort. What I'm talking about is doing it within the language and automatically.

Looking at BTreeMap, the extensive use of unwrap_unchecked seems to be unnecessary. That looks like premature optimization - omitting the check saves maybe two instruction on the main path.

The other unsafe code there seems to mostly involve backpointers, which was covered above. "Drop" apparently is unsafe only for backpointer reasons, although the comments don't make this clear.
After using TCF Bank (Minnesota) and Wells Fargo (both are trash), Capital One has been amazing to me. I've never had any problems with Capital One. I began as an ING 360 customer (which was lightyears better than C1...) and stuck through the transition and never had any issues. Also use their credit cards.

I never got the impression that they were predators.
I eternally have this misunderstanding. I think static means unchanging.

In this context, it means static HTTP responses, but dynamic HTML/DOM.

I want a word to mean really static.
Not to pile on the commenter, but I agree. If you have to ask if this is satire you either lack experience (most likely) and will later in life understand; or you lack self-awareness and will never understand.
Very readable on my device using both Firefox and Chrome. What's the issue for you?
My immediate reaction was to try and confuse it, so I played "Roll Call" from the Thomas show (kids are obsessed !) It's a bit chromatic so I thought it would have trouble, which it did.

Next, I tried putzing around on the white keys but made sure to never hit a F or F#. I wanted to see if it would try and guess which key I was playing in, C or G major. It seemed to guess C most of the time, though one time I tried hinting at G by starting out on G, it got confused and starting playing both F and F#.

I was just clicking with a mouse, so rhythm was hard to judge but overall this thing did a really bad job "complimenting" my playing!
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I don't think there's a practical limitation on training resources with respect to Music. Maybe the authors didn't get into any of the rubric, but it's certainly out there. Gobs of it.
You'll enjoy a book called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. The theory put forth therein is highly questionable, but too interesting not to play with.
Per the comments noting that this (police-mounted face recognition) isn't a thing:

I'm amazed that pervasive face recognition isn't a thing. I figured it would be the killer app for Google Glass, popping up notes about everyone you see. Apple & Facebook could leverage it from the face tagging in Photos & FB. Police could be well-served by a vest-mounted lightweight system giving likely identifications of encountered suspects (or anyone) from mugshots et al. Thing is, all the technology is there waiting for use; it's a killer app just waiting for society to put up with it (just like privacy invasions that were intolerable back when and are normal today).

(I'm not necessarily advocating it, just figuring it's inevitable and ready to explode onto the scene.)
If you have multiple repositories, you have to set up the UI and ticketing setup in each one individually. (Although you can share a login database.)

I don't know if it's been fixed by now, but back when I was using Fossil regularly there were long-standing bugs where pushing the UI and ticket configuration from one repo to another didn't work properly, so synchronising look and feel across multiple repositories was hard.
> I'm more of a socially libertarian but fiscally conservative person.

This is by far the place that contains the most commentary by folks of that persuasion that I'm aware of. Not just on the internet, but also in print, on TV, and in person. So I guess my question is, if you come here for opposing viewpoints, where do you go for agreement?
Agreed, that is the target audience we are going after with FloydHub. If you have some time to chat about your startup, please send me an email naren[AT]floydhub.com. I would love to get your feedback and see what would make Floyd useful for companies like yours.
The problem is that this experiment might as well just replay a random collection of the N most recent notes played, with durations shuffled around, for all the musicality it demonstrates. He wired a neural network to some midi samples, and it didn't generate anything of use. Yeah, it was an experiment, and there's value in failed experiments, but you don't typically make a big website to present your failed experiment.

Maybe if you could set it to "Blues" or something like that, switching training sets, it would do better, but as is it's a nonsense generator.
In my mind, that spans decades, some perhaps fairly recent. I am over 4 decades old, so I can do that.

Here's an incomplete list in no particular order of some that immediately come to mind:

Brian Kernigan

Dennis Ritchie

Rob Pike

Steve Wozniak

RMS

Dave Cutler

Nolan Bushnell (Atari)

Jay Miner (Amiga)

Linus Torvalds

Burrell Smith (Apple)

Bill Atkinson (Apple)

Bud Tribble (Apple)

Avie Tevanian (Apple/NeXT)

Larry Wall (Perl)

Anders Hejlsberg (C#/Borland Pascal)

and even Jeff Raskin (Wikipedia him) and Charles Petzold for his early Windows API work. And DHH, even though he's a kid.

Those are the ones that are particularly notable to me personally.
Doesn't Option() on a Rust pointer optimize down to a zero pointer value anyway?

Much of the unsafe Rust code I come across looks like either premature optimization or trying to write C in Rust.
I use a lot of software written by other people. I need to, in many cases, read and understand that software. So pretending it doesn't exist is fine for personal, small projects, but doesn't seem as realistic in my day-to-day work.

Also, this post wasn't about every little feature in Python 3. It was about 2 features that, I feel, make python as a language less pythonic.
I wonder which is better, actually. On the one hand, a lot of people will swear that what their internal pattern matcher produces is reality (although people with training tend to know that you can't put that much stock in it). So maybe the output of a computer will feel a little less real to laymen.

But I kind of doubt it. I have a feeling that, for example, it's going to be difficult to explain to a jury that the image that the computer spat out from eight pixels on a security feed is not reliable – that any resemblance they see to the defendant is simply not relevant. If an artist took those eight pixels and drew a picture, they'd be laughed out of the room. If a computer does it, people primed by shows like CSI might think that it's actually valid.

Maybe you can appeal to people's common sense, and show them the original input. A crafty defense might show alternative "enhancements" based on non-face training sets to drive the point home. But in the end, we're probably going to need to ban this kind of technology as evidence to avoid confusing jurors.
It sounds like they are talking about gift cards, gift card apps, and alternative payment apps. These days that's probably a very large umbrella.

Everything from a Google Play or iTunes app to apps like BlendCard, Gyft, Dwolla, Venmo, Square Cash, etc... would likely fall into this. Depending on how PayPal is structured any funds you have sitting in a PayPal account could also fall under this umbrella; which that alone is probably a significant number these days.
The secret sauce: large full-time contracts.

Don't undersell your hourly rate. It has to be quite high to afford health insurance, save for retirement and save enough to take a little vacation time.

Taxes are a massive problem if you self-employed. Auto-transfer your estimated taxes so you don't get in trouble at the end of the year.
Look, it couldn't even follow a basic tempo when I was playing. That's not even close to being a "duet" as described. Maybe whoever wrote it has a limited grasp of English, because that experiment is a far, far, far, far, far, far, far cry from a "Duet" experience.

Well, one where you don't look over at your partner and wonder if the have any clue how music works before pushing them off the piano bench.
That's precisely what I was thinking as I read the article. I go into the office for meetings--usually three mornings a week--but all real thought-work happens at home. My home office is quiet, has natural light which I can control to my liking, my chair fits me perfectly, and I can enjoy the company of my cat. Most importantly, I feel at peace when I'm at home. No amount of office decoration can substitute for that.
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The article presents a blatant strawman argument against Python 3's language by using advanced language features to claim it's no longer simple nor suitable for beginners.

Just don't use the advanced features if you don't need them, the core language is the same as Python 2 which the author lauds as being wonderful.
If only I'm as opinionated and eloquent.
The pension fund thing is interesting, because interest on shares is linear with respect to number lent, while downward pressure on asset price is quadratic (number of shares * per-lending downward pressure).
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"Might" be? They've been on life support since 2015, they just didn't want to believe it (or anyone else to realize it). As the lawsuits have piled up, the sanctions have mounted and partners (Walgreens) have pulled out, there hasn't been a single bright spot in the past two years.

Just browse the first few pages of this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=theranos+lawsuit
Both are possible. You don't need power to be charismatic and you can learn to be more charismatic, but if you display charisma without power then you will be attacked frequently by those who have more of the latter.
Full employment and high wages drive technological progress. When labor is abundant there's little incentive to invest in technology.
See my response to your "blatant" strawman (ignore the language changes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13671609
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comment I responded to asked a question in the form of "A or B". I evaluated their question logically.

what do you think I owe you in terms of "informing or challenging" you? at some point you'll have to actually interpret my comments yourself and figure out what I meant. how explicit do I need to be?

we're talking about indicators that point to what has happened to American culture and society. A comment expressing confusion as to whether or not "behave like reasonable adults" is a satirical statement is quite revealing, don't you think?
Why would I? While I use computers to play music all the time, I don't think using computers to write music is a good idea in the first place.

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@jgalloway___: I'm not sure if I'd call it an “expectation”. I just dislike it when people throw random shit at the wall and see what sticks. When you write music, you should first think how it's going to sound, convince yourself that it's plausibly good-sounding, and only then actually play it just to make sure it sounds good. If you do it the other way around (first play random stuff, then filter out what doesn't sounds good), you're a wanker.

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@ohitsdom: I'm totally fine with improvisation driven by ideas, not random computation. Coming up with ideas on the fly is good. Passing noise as genuine ideas is not good.
In an integrated system at 50 tops/watt? How are you going to even access memory at less than 20 fJ per op? Like, you're specifically trying to hide the catch here. If we were to take you at face value, we'd have to also believe that Nvidia is working on an energy optimized system that is 50x worse for no good reason.

For reference, reading 1 bit from a very small 1.5kbit sram, which is much cheaper than the register caches in a gpu, costs more than 25 fJ per bit you read.
For those looking for harmony try letting the machine lead .. if you mimic it's style and complement with a hint of your own rhythm it can be satisfying.
This issue was a plot point in an episode of 30 Rock.

"Meanwhile, Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) pushes Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) buttons as usual by not showing up to rehearsals and leaving work to do something insane. However, Tracy's demeanor instantly changes when a camera crew starts to follow him around for his wife's new reality show. He starts to act responsible and respectful in front of the cameras, as not to ruin his chances of winning an Oscar. Liz has the idea to use Tracy's fake good behavior to get him to do things he blew off in the past, knowing that he can't refuse while taped. This works until Tracy finds a loophole. When Liz tries to get Tracy to do more things, he refuses and insults Liz to the melody of "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel. Since the song is copyrighted, any footage containing that song can't be used. Therefore, Tracy's irresponsibility wouldn't be aired on the show."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Righteous_Cowboy_Lig...
Linkers are mind-bogglingly slow. I don't understand why they are so slow.

lld is still slow, it is just less slow than the other linkers.

This is not to disparage anyone working on linkers or say they are not smart. I think they just don't tend to be performance-oriented programmers, and culturally there has become some kind of ingrained acceptance of how much time it is okay for a linker to take.
One of HN's origin stories is that pg finally got around to writing it when Steve and Alexis stopped accepting his feature requests.
His essays Shooting An Elephant and Politics and the English Language have always stuck with me. We have the 4 volume collection in the family. It's at an arm's distance right now.

I read Animal Farm when I was 12 and 1984 a few years later. And I've re-read them a few times since. In college, I read Down and Out. Traveling through Europe I read Homage to Catalonia.

Orwell is my favorite writer and 1984 is my favorite book.
Is it this?

http://blog.arkency.com/2016/12/techniques-for-dealing-with-...

I haven't read it yet, but it looks worthwhile.
Am I the only one that thinks that taking a baby away from their mother one day after birth because of a domestic violence accusation by a third party against the father (and denied by him) is over the top?
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I had the same problem with some Kodi addons being the culprits. Updated python-openssl and python-cryptography to the packages from the debian repo, disabled some theme/addon helper that was running in the addons settings and the unity7.log stopped filling my disk. Let me see if I find the link to the bug on Launchpad.

Edit:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/447828

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1636573
Everyone here is well aware of ad-blocking technology, but MANY people in the world either don't know how much difference it makes, or think it would be too difficult to set up. Helping an unsavvy person set up an ad-blocker may make a substantial positive difference in their life.
Neither of the two key conditions for median voter theorem tend to hold true in the real world; not only are real political alternatives not unidimensional (even in the US, which has very low dimensionality in political discourse and identity compared to most modern democracies), but distribution of political views tends not to be unimodal, which is also required for median voter theorem.
> has no blame in this, they are simply following the rules that they set out

That's a nice piece of dissonance they have and which you are rebroadcasting into the aggregate. I don't agree at all, and would point out all of us should be doing anything we can to figure out how to establish a decentralized governance for the Internet...for the world's unheard.
i appreciate your rational/educational/hands-on style of guiding culture.

so i was trying to say, without sounding like a pushover, that i may not have responded in fear of undermining your hard work.

cheers & thanks sir!