skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchain – If You Want to Be Exponentially Better: Be Cooperative
I've been convinced for a long time that many people exaggerate how busy they are and how many hours they work. Very few people work 90 hour weeks, and of those who do it's often unproductive workaholic wheel-spinning. They're not doing good work for 90 hours every week.

Makes sense if busyness is a status symbol.
Anyone know how to confirm a given domain is controlled by Sci-Hub?
Spammergate: The Fall of an Empire
Right, the mean is meaningless.
Swimming against the current can kill your career. This is exactly the solution.
Agreed. It needs to start with the funding agencies, NIH, Wellcome Trust, HHMI, etc. Like the Gates Foundation recently did, they need to make it a requirement that you must publish in immediate open-access journals. I'd further like to see the journal not getting as onerous copyright claim but baby steps.

The people with the money need to put their money where the public interest's mouth is. Certainly not where Elsevier's mouth is.
A common complaint that pg and many of us have about popular forums is that you always end up in some kind of semantics game.

That's true, and that's frustrating, but that's also the basis of shared human understanding, the dialectic. I wish I could just say "There are no mermaids", but the definition of "is" and "being" here is complex. In many other cases this definition is not complex.

We programmers get dissed a lot because we can tend to be on the arrogant side and think any problem can be fixed with more CPUs or algorithms. For many situations, like HN perhaps, if it works for 99% of the folks it's good enough.

But if you're the world dominant leader in answering questions? And you want to give the immediate, correct answer to anything somebody types in? Those little 1% cases pile up. There are a crap ton of situations where the minority opinion is the only thing that advances the species. Existence is much more than simply making the correct or best-guess decision based on a bunch of facts. Most times the facts and basis for definition of terms in the facts are in flux. Gad, I wish it were as easy as I thought it was when I was a kid.
New Fujitsu AI Supercomputer to Use 24 Nvidia  DGX-1s
Can Uber be saved from itself?
The difference between total revenue and average revenue per user is important, but I think the answer is still iOS.

http://bgr.com/2016/07/20/ios-vs-android-developers-profits-...
25ms is still several orders of magnitude too slow for a lightgun. It's important to remember that ~16ms is the approximate time for a CRT to paint an entire frame at 60hz. A lightgun is way, way faster than that. It needs to determine the x and y position of the user's aim. To accomplish this means being faster than a horizontal pulse (the signal that draws one line of pixels) which in the case of NTSC is 4.85µs. I highly doubt you can get an LCD to refresh that quickly since the process involves actual physical twisting of liquid crystals in response to a change in electric current.
Isn't one of the major reasons to commit arson insurance fraud?

I'm not saying arson is a white collar crime just that if you're desperate for money for whatever reason, and you're generally pretty smart, you may be inclined to try to get away with something like that. The same with kidnapping, although that seems much more violent and likely to end badly for everyone involved than arson.
FCC May Allow Carriers to Block Robocalls from Spoofed Numbers
That latter trick was used on many an early micro that was designed for TV use. Back then games had a very intimate relationship with the CPU and the electron beam of the TV.

For example using the cycles while the beam was moving from the bottom right to the top left to start a new image to do non-graphical work.
Trump to sign new immigration order
There's a guy who setup a call capture bot with several soundbites of an old man ready to reply to call center scam calls.

It's pretty funny to hear how well random stories and comments from a confused sounding older man does to keep them on the phone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
I think it breaks policy but not the spec.

Technically the root zone has to have NS records. So even records without a label at all should work. of course you can not resolve them without a static zone configuration.
My IQ tested in this range, and I've broken some laws that aren't entirely common. I managed to get a copy of the master key to my campus and had essentially unfettered access to all the buildings and rooms I wanted, provided I was careful (for a while I shifted my waking time so that I was able to take more advantage). I got into software development as a profession by way of breaking into systems for several years. This was a time when the only way to get the access I needed normally was to be in the major and I wasn't.

I've never killed anyone, although I can think of one instance where I considered it and would certainly have gotten away with it. It would have been a big hassle, though, and honestly who wants that on their conscience?

At the end of the day it seems to me that I've only done the things other people would have also done if the opportunity arose. I may be somewhat more attuned to those opportunities than the average person, but in many cases they arrived after a cascade of events that weren't specifically aimed at any kind of criminality. At worst I was initially guilty of a high degree of curiousity.

The only thing that really resonates for me in this article is low attachment, although I find it hard to really quantify that. I do seem to have fewer friends than most people, but there are probably mathematical reasons for that. I am confident in my ability to make friends, but don't feel like making the effort usually. I have a busy life and can barely keep up with work and family -- having more than a few good friends outside those two groups takes more time than I have.
I've read somewhere that the funding agencies fear that less scientists will use their funding money if they have such requirements. No idea what the source was, but could this be one of the reasons they are reluctant?
How to collect tax when machines replace humans
Maybe not 100%, but Occam's Razor suggests disenfranchised voter groups are the underlying reason Trump won, not dank memes.

Of course Occam's Razor doesn't always point to the correct answer, just the simplest one.
An Overview of Key IT Outsourcing Countries and Rates
> I’m good at bullshitting. Writing.

I applaud the author's honesty, but perhaps it's not the best idea to proclaim your flair for bending the truth in an article that promises an elusive answer.
If you like this, then take a look at https://www.dyne.org/software/dynebolic/ (probably a bit old now) or the Ubuntu Studio distro https://ubuntustudio.org/ that have a lot of Linux based DAW and multimedia creation applications.
Out of curiosity, color CRTs do have a kind of native resolution. It's the RGB pattern used to show colors.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3a2tx6/do_old_c...
They did the ole switcharoo.

Garnered intense notoriety and then used that infamy to push their real journal.

The clickbait and listicles are only to keep the lights on.
A GNU Readline Like Library for .NET: Release v1.1.0
VC funding raised by African tech startups totals US$ 366.8M in 2016
Pretty much all of the responses here are irrelevant. (Perhaps accurate, but unrelated to this story.) As per the top comment on this article, what's happening is that The Economist hit a slow news day and wrote up a non-story in a misleading way.

For years now, the US hasn't honored visa-free travel for five eastern European countries. That technically violates the visa-free reciprocity agreement, so the EP occasionally makes some noise about enforcing those rules. The EC doesn't want to, nor do actual European member states (even the ones not getting reciprocity!) because it would hugely deter tourism, something places like Greece really can't afford.

So: the EC is rattling a saber to press the US to hurry up on a narrow bureaucratic issue. The US will probably continue to ignore them, and the EC will probably not do anything about it. A bunch of news orgs looking for clicks slapped dramatic headlines on that and spun it as closely related to current events, making all of us a little more ignorant.
If Trump Spoils Privacy Pact, We'll Pull It, EU Official Warns
Tried Sling.tv, which starts at $25 for some set of broadcast channels. The value wasn't there for me. Netflix + Prime is cheaper and has more content.
I really hate to burn Karma

If anything I'd expect this to farm karma.

It seems to me (a few years on this site on two accounts) that your opinion is most popular and the ones who don't like it are less likely to downvote (either because they can't or because they don't want to).

I don't have access to the backend though so it is just a feeling.

Edit: hehe, someone has taken the task on them to prove me right. -1 at the moment.

I can't trade in my Internet points here in Europe and I don't plan on visiting US anytime soon so I just find it funny :-)
Maybe this election really came down to marketing. However, when every post-mortem amounts to "we don't need to change the party platform; we just need to work on messaging" I start to wonder if the post-mortems do any good.

Sometimes you need a shake up.
Is it an American thing to force your students to buy textbooks? In Britain (at least at the universities that I know about) there tends to be 2 or 3 recommended texts, of which the library will have several copies, and they're meant for reference when you get stuck rather than learning the entire course.
I'm not American, but noticed a strong difference in memes leading up to each of the last three elections. I have no numbers, but I noticed that there seemed to be an unnatural amount of pro-Obama memes that spread before the '08 and '12 elections. They were high quality and spread fast. In my (largely liberal/progressive) social media bubble, I noticed very few pro-Trump memes before the the '16 elections, but huge numbers of anti-Hillary ones.

As I said I don't have numbers and I don't know what kind of effect memes actually have, as they are largely consumed by young non-voters, but it's not secret that Obama had a very active meme-team and it makes sense for Trump to have followed the strategy.
My point was that not having Emacs in Windows is a non problem because the editor market is oversaturated. It's not like the Adobe suite where any other product is almost a downgrade, so running a system that can't run Adobe products would be a liability.

Not being able to run Emacs as a reason not to use Windows is like saying; Damn! PulseAudio doesn't work on Windows, guess I'm back to Ubuntu.
But being in a far away country makes it easier to go unpunished
Dovetail: Stronger Anonymity in Next-Generation Internet Routing
No One Is Proactive with Social Media Engagement- 6 Tips to Change That
Do you just roll into WalMart and buy the first $300 HP you see?

That's literally the only way I can see your anecdotal experience being truthful.

The PC marketplace is open, like the Android one. There's a lot of cruft to sift through, but it should only take about 1-2 hours of research to find the best laptop at any given time and any given price range for any given use-case.
Before the Dirt – The Cars of Mad Max Fury Road
Go ahead and start one of these businesses in the US and UK and see how long you last. There are several reasons why this happens mostly in India, but the main one is that there's a jurisdiction barrier that benefits criminals. We know the voip resellers know who these customers are, and law enforcement finds out through these providers, but now what? You can't just call the Indian embassy and demand the arrest of hundreds of people. There's a lot of diplomatic finesse that needs to happen and by the time it does, assuming its even possible, these groups have moved on to different locations, different providers, different staff, etc after cashing out.

Worse, India is notoriously corrupt, much like Russia, another hotbed of cybercrime, so sharing your cybercrime spoils with the local government goes a long to to prosecution immunity.

I understand HN has a lot of prideful India and Russian nationals, but ultimately one shouldn't go against the facts. Pretending these countries aren't safe havens for cybercrime is just asinine.
Real value of the course is the opportunity to get one-on-one sessions with experienced mentors; my guess is that the majority of successful founders have received advice that was crucial to their success.
IBM's quantum cloud computer goes commercial
Part 2: https://www.behance.net/gallery/48682109/Before-The-Dirt-Par...
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I do wonder if whatever is sitting at the heart of that thing has more computing power than the ZX81.
The Longest Train in the World Ever Seen
The alt-right is congregated more in Voat and Reddit.

4Chan spiraled into depression after countless controversies that spoiled its ethos.
Actually Windows can and does use NTFS transactions (TxF) in the Installer and Updater code, so the probability of non-recoverable damage should be lower (which is also my experience; power off a Linux machine during updates and you are pretty much guaranteed to have many packages with empty files, partial file trees and so on; power off a Windows machine and it probably is still fine, but sometimes you get weird issues where it can't properly reinstall/deinstall some updates to try again).
Are there many that actually depend on syncing up to the physical refresh and not just fiddling with registers at the right point in signal/pixel space? The only thing I can think of is some old-school light gun games, which involve a physical sensor pointed at the screen and thus depend on sufficiently high brightness and sufficiently low input lag (and so almost always fail on LCDs).
Building browser notifications
In the Detroit area you can get most arcade games repaired by the guys at BigToys near 14 mile and Mound Rd. I am not aware of anyone repairing the actual tube in the monitor though. Everything else is fine.

From TFA: "In the very far future, the value of an authentic 1980s arcade game may become so high, that the monetary value will be significant..."

I guess I'll be hanging on to my I,Robot and pair of vector games for some time then...

It's a shame that emulation devalued real classic arcade games, but then it's also great that everyone can experience them. I too am guilty of writing and emulator ;-)
Trump Administration Wants a Clean Reauthorization for NSA Surveillance
OK, curiosity piqued: why not really for good reasons?
You have to win the nomination first.
Not enough trees, peat, coal, or oil to burn there.
I think it is generally underappreciated how bad of a candidate Clinton was. Many people for good reason were frustrated by the status quo of politics and the Democrats would probably have had a hard time to find someone playing more into this. Her entire platform seemed to be to continue what already was happening except that she will be there first female president; she was heavily associated with a previous president; the way she and the Democratic party treated Sanders played badly into her being the heartless, corrupt establishment. I don't think I met anyone who really was excited to vote for Clinton her entire virtue was not being Trump. I'm honestly certain that pretty much anyone could have beaten Trump except Clinton.

It also shows to me how broken the US election system is. We badly need something like approval voting. It's unacceptable that we ended up was two candidates who both had awful approval ratings.
But following the same logic as GP, if you have a higher refresh rate, can't you just split the frame into several frames where you simulate that refresh scan as an animation?
Been using this for a couple of years, synchronized with Ardour DAW through the JACK sound server.

Works great.
This is a really good example of the problem. We aren't just struggling with subjective questions or machine learning getting tricked by fantasy (e.g. mermaids). We're also up against the fact that even very simple questions can't necessarily be answered cleanly.

Does Google show different Easter results based on location? I'll bet it does.
Then go on with your current arrogance. Hope the market continues like this for you.
While we're off-topic: I get a 403: Forbidden nginx error accessing from Firefox on Android or desktop. Have been for a few weeks.

Chrome gets through.
You can get search suggestions in the Awesome bar (URL bar), but it asks you before it gets turned on.

(I personally always the Firefox search bar, but I also decline the search suggestions because they don't help me much. Instead I have 15–20 keyboard searches I use a lot.)
Easy distributed analytics with Irmin 1.0
It might be illegal to roam around various forests/preserves, particularly with a large caliber rifle and an ivory saw. It might also provide reasonable suspicion for searching the suspect's property to find further evidence of poaching. This is all speculation, of course.
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> "I helped meme a President into office, cucks" - Gab.ai CEO Andrew Torba.

Reading that, I thought is was an innocent meme and would pave the way for free and open expression of memes. But, after reading the full story it's sad he had to get violent about it.
Not sure why you decided razer stealth @1.4K is closest to what Mac has to offer when they have a "regular" razer blade in the same price range as the mbp with the only upside to mbp being a better battery life (which is most likely due to a superior but hungrier video setup on the blade).

speaking of battery life - not sure that once you get into 6 hrs vs 8hrs type difference it's all that important.
Craft your own writing app
I've also wondered why Google isn't held responsible for publishing libelous claims and hoaxes as facts. Examples:

Is Hillary Clinton a pedophile?
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+hillary+clinton+a+pedophi...

Is John Travolta gay?
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+john+travolta+gay

Does Lil Wayne have HIV?
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+lil+wayne+have+hiv

Perhaps worse, this is what drives Google Home's question answering. Yes, they say "according to so-and-so" first, but if Google is responsible for "organizing the world's information", they are essentially endorsing that answer as the best response. They've gone too far in favor of recall over precision/reliability and need to dial it back. Otherwise you end up with crap like this:

Is Earth flat?
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+earth+flat
War is business by other means.
Nice graphic and template. I don't think this is a CV, but maybe there is a European/American difference in what that means.
The NIST Conspiracy (2012)
Care to elaborate? That doesn't make much sense to me. Scientists can't do their jobs without funding, so what alternatives do they have?
For mass distribution, sure a solution like S3 is the way to go. However, this was more of a "The file is too large to email, I'll zip the build and send a shared link" occasion. Using S3 for that is a sledgehammer approach especially when you're working with people who aren't tech savvy.

The concern is that G-Drive (not Docs) seems to arbitrarily decide what you can and can't share using it. In this case, it was a binary and associated files. I was able to share an earlier build without problems. Was it a DLL I'd bundled? VCpp redistributable? Was there some pattern of bits in the code that bothered the file checker? I don't know what triggered the violation and probably never will.
I've checked out Hydrogen a few times, but have been turned off by clunkiness in the UI each time. I'd rather use an web based one for quick one offs or just boot up my DAW for something more in depth.

That said, it's a nice little tool if you're not willing to shell out for a DAW.
We are absolutely not going to be advertising on the site. I'm not sure where the tracking is coming from but am looking into it.

Also, I think that information is out of date. The Startup School Conference site has been moved to here: http://conference.startupschool.org.

The new site is built with Ruby on Rails, React and Semantic UI.
I see where he is coming from, but Windows is just so much worse. Apple's OS and hardware may have slipped, but it is still much better than a PC for almost everything except gaming.
It's well understood by many startups and established companies that developing for iOS often takes priority because there's a larger group of users willing to pay more money than their android counterparts
Does anyone know what's up with that chrome plugin for searching? Feels weird to me that it would require a plugin.
And realistically, asking for probability distributions over unbounded sample spaces is trouble even for human experts. I suppose the space for "are mermaids real?" is workable (there are caveats like "yes but extinct", but yes/no is basically sufficient), but for anything subjective or political it's almost hopeless.

That said, this is a really interesting idea for behind-the-scenes work. The public might not want percentages, but I suspect experts could get some interesting results by diving into confidence levels and secondary answers.
Quanta magazine is my personal favourite. They are like XKCD's Thing Explainer for complex things.

Check out my favourite article to get a taste of it. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/tricky-encryption-stump-quantu...

Some others to get a good sample:

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/using-math-repair-650-year-old...

[2]: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/outsiders-crack-a-50-year-old-...
> They can go find someone else to interview.

Oh most happily will, even talking to you is a pain, I wouldn't work with you if you paid me. You're arrogant and entitled, you'd make an awful employee.
Was about to recommend this. Best discrete math book out there from my standpoint as an applied mathematician.
We hope to provide 1:1 and group office hours to as many companies as possible.
Only I hear cracking sound at the end of every beat? Removing pulseaudio helps to shorten it but not completely eliminates.
Using open source APM software: InspectIT
Is there any connection between this and libgen? That also has a bunch of papers.
They're going to ban "lisp as the real example" comments here before too long. (-;
Why Does Y Combinator Require a Video in Your Application?
Because every time I've applied, this has drastically slowed down my application. I mean, I'm just not great with a camera or microphone, and arguably don't have good stage presence in general.

As a result, I always struggle when it gets to this point:

> Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founders

Since well, I just don't think I can make a good video.

So why is needed? Why does YCombinator need a founder video in the application?

Because it seems like it's becoming a trend with startup accelerators and jobs now. Every single one seems to asks for a video of the applicant, their product or both.

And I suspect it's hurting people from poorer backgrounds (who simply can't afford the equipment for a good video presentation) or who are naturally not extroverts (and hence break down in front of a camera).

What's the reasoning here?
Having learned Mandarin, I can tell you that giving up because of the way it is written would be a perfectly sensible thing to do.

However, we are comparing apples and oranges. Learning any language takes years, Mandarin a few more. The syntax of a programming language takes a few days at worst.

When someone invents a programming language where each of 30,000 library methods is a unique character that must be memorized separately, I'll be prepared to grant your point.
I thought an evidence was an objective piece of data, not someone's word.
Still doesn't work on Firefox, very impressive on Chrome.
CAP Theorem Myths: “Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem” Analysis
Pulse/alsa/jack shenanigans make audio production the only thing I still use MacOS for.