skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter recently sold Fabric to Google. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/18/google-twitter-fabric/

I never used Fabric even though it was extremely useful exactly because I knew Twitter will pull something like this.

It's really not any single person's fault. The problem goes really way back when they made the decision to become a media instead of platform. Back then it could have become anything but now it's already been decided what Twitter is, so it's near impossible to change the direction. That's why little things like this is just waste of time and money.
Armenia. This is common knowledge for those of us who live in los angeles, which has a sizable population of Armenians.
No, it's to create something.
And on the other hand, Graphics Core Next was initially designed for low level APIs — they actually started the whole "low level API on desktop" trend with Mantle.
All development is just re-solving or extending? That's a sweeping generalization. My own work is definitely the incremental kind, and maybe yours is too --- but surely you'd agree that someone, somewhere in the world is doing truly innovative work.
Sad to break the news to them, they will always and forever be underclass to the aristocracy. They will never join their ranks. Even these rich ministers don't qualify. Their aspiration is totally delusional, aside from the religious component.

But Republican elected officials have to keep trying to grow their market though. There simply aren't enough plutocrats to win elections. So they're going to continue their enhancements to the Nixon southern strategy until the party blows itself up (or the country, whichever happens first). You can pretty much see it's only the old GOP who have some sense of social moderation, that not all cooperation is collectivism, and not every government office or program is socialism, and sometimes those things have consequences society likes and wants. The Paul Ryan Republicans are basically a huge FU party, sometimes though they do say please GFY. So I guess they do have some standard of manners.

But even Paul Ryan is poor in the eyes of a proper plutocrat. He's a tool of power, not power itself.
You reminded me, that I made a Javascript game with Box2D five years ago: http://www.loudrider.com/

I was using Box2DWeb https://github.com/hecht-software/box2dweb . It could be good to mention other javascript versions of Box2D and say, what are the differences between them and your library.
OT, but I'll keep it short, and the user should now it is okay now: you are right. I vouched for the comment in this thread and that seems to have helped.

Looking at the history, it's probably the anti-trump comment that got flagged.
Impressive the abstraction NNs can achieve from just character prediction. Do the other systems they compare to also use 81M Amazon reviews for training? Seems disingenuous to claim "state-of-the-art" and "less data" if they haven't.
It's a trade off. In my opinion when using rebase you don't lose history or make it inaccurate. A bug would still be introduced by the commit that made it, so tracking down bugs with bisect or other tools works the same. The main advantage is that your history is much cleaner.
You hit the nail on the head. This is the relevant question.

Of course we have states and they do both enforce and sometimes create rules. That is why people like Hayek and many others were not anarchists. The hole philosophy of classical liberalism is based around the idea of a small state to enforce these rights.

The problem is that the solution 'the state' is not a complete one.

We of course also know that property rights do exist and persist outside of state systems. Many different types of system can and do provide rights and have mechanism for enforcement.

It is a major field of study in both economics, for legal scholars and many others. There has been a lot of work on this question and it is a hard one to answer. One possible that one economist/legal scholar provides is that it is all about the Schelling point, you pick some point and commit to overreaction. Once you have this idea even two people on a empty island can establish property rights. So its about commitment and signaling.

We can easily find situations like this in real live. There are tons of example both now and historically. Common Law for example was not created by the state, but was in essence eventually enforced by the state. The first Stock market in Amsterdam was neither created, nor enforced by the state.

There is a hole lot to be talked about. To tie it back together with the original discussion. If we are talking about pollution protection in the current world, it would of course have to be either rules created by the state, or rules that evolve as they did in common law (in fact many rules already exist in British common law).

The state could set the limits for a pollutant but then let it be enforced by normal law enforcement, more like civil rather then criminal law.

P.S: Many classical liberals believe in Natural Law, but many also do not. This debate is still active and has not gone away.
I'm a typical HN user I suppose. Own/run a software company, we even code in Microsoft's tools! However, I do 99.9% of my work on a Mac laptop.

I've installed Steam on said laptop but it's just not the same as having a console.

I love my XB1, it just works. I buy a game, pop the disc in, download a metric shit tonne of updates for a couple of hours (a rant for another time) and I'm good to go.

I don't care about 60FPS or 4k resolution. I care about being able to use my minimal spare time to shoot teenagers on COD. I'll sacrifice an optimal gaming experience, for ease of access.

Just another thought.
Get your company’s financial metrics in Slack
How to find 56 potential vulnerabilities in FreeBSD code in one evening
I think part 1 is fair, but part 2 is not. That's just silly.
Teachers in the US make more than the median salary, and get a ton of perks.

The US spends more per student than any other developed world.

I'd say we're paying plenty.
Actually, if markets are efficient enough, you can just buy any old thing for a good price. (Ie efficient markets preclude superior returns, but before-taxes-and-transaction-costs also protect you from inferior returns.)

So the downside to investing-by-liking might not be too bad.
Fast Bitcoin block validation without UTXO-index
The Keybase server manages giving out usernames, and recording the proof URLs for users, and then your client hits the URLs, checks that the proofs are signed with the appropriate key, and caches them to watch for future discrepancies.

Keybase offers decentralized trust, in that the Keybase server can't lie to you about someone's keys -- your Keybase client will trust their public proofs and not the Keybase server -- but it's not a distributed/decentralized service as a whole, because you still receive hints from the server about where proofs live, and learn Keybase usernames from it.

(I work at Keybase.)
The only thing new about "NoSQL" is branding. Persistent key-value stores are not new.
Start on codacademy html and css courses, then javascript, take it from there.
I'm not writing a one-off procedure in RAW SQL. If ActiveRecord could turn functions into SQL equivalents, it would be awesome.
That would be a hell of a coincidence: "Typo'ed SSN just happens to give someone else who is a customer with the same bank and multiple components of the same name (Cheng Jiang vs Cheng Xian Jiang, IIRC).
Indeed, it depends upon your investment in games already and if your old console is still alive. Though the ease of just having one system connected for some as a conveniance does factor in.

But for many keeping there old console/games and using that or indeed buying a replacement second-hand old console to utilise their game investment is always an option.

Gets down to choice. Though the aspect of having to repurchase the games is somewhat a crux and does in effect reduce the option of older games to in effect buying the game again. So more for those who never had the original game/console I surmise. More so if they add no new features to those games to make them seem like value for money.
I've messed around with various incarnations of Box2D, including at least one other Javascript port. How does this one compare performance-wise? Does doing a full rewrite perform better than the automatically generated Javascript of the other ports?
Very interesting, this reminds me of the 2012 paper by Andrew Ng:
Building High-level Features Using Large Scale Unsupervised Learning
> What about if the DB itself supported a psuedo-PHP runtime, or better yet closer to native code?

Note that in PostgreSQL, user defined functions can be written in many languages, including SQL but also Python (very well supported) and PHP (not so well supported, but doable).
That is an extraordinary claim you're making, that people had to be forced to remain within agricultural societies. Of the scholarship in this area that I'm familiar with, nothing supports this. If you're aware of research that suggests otherwise, please share it.

I often see this nostalgia about how much better things used to be, compared to how bad it is now, whether that time period is 5, 25, 100 or in your case, 10000 years ago. This usually glosses over the very real downsides of living in any of those time periods. In the case of hunter gatherer societies here are some problems that we no longer have to deal with once we moved to agricultural societies with central authority. In no particular order

1. Vagaries of food. You had to constantly find food, because storage wasn't easy. You could have a few months where you had plenty of food but a difficult week could see some friends and family die of starvation. This was a very real danger. Compare that with what a difficult week looks like today. This led to

2. Constantly moving. You could never stay in one place too long. You really like the area you're currently at? Too bad, move on before food sources dry up here. What if the new place is not as good and food is difficult to find? Too bad, keep moving. This led to

3. Leaving behind people. If a person could not walk at the pace of the group, they would be left behind to die. There was no quiet corner they could retire to, they had to walk or die. Not just old people. If a person broke their leg, and couldn't walk for a couple of months, they would be left behind to die.

4. Safety. If you lived in a large group with strong fighters this wasn't a problem. But if you didn't, or encountered a larger or more skilled group of fighters, you could see everyone in your group killed except for younger women. That's less of a problem in societies where a central entity has a monopoly on violence.

There is absolutely no doubt that all of these factors led to a high mortality rate. Once people moved to agricultural societies that were relatively safer and had relatively stable sources of food, the population exploded. The choice that people made was not forced upon them. Indeed it would have been difficult to do at a time when society had just started to change and central authority was still weak. Rather it was just people choosing the safe, stable option rather than the interesting one.

The interestingness of being a hunter gatherer is what modern societies find attractive - eating different things everyday, moving to a new place every couple of weeks, almost like a constant vacation. But it ignores the constant spectre of death that hangs over every such society.

My understanding of this topic is based on Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. I highly recommend it.
To further clarify: does unlabeled mean "we didn't use sentiment data" or "we were only trying to predict the next character given the prior characters", since the amazon data does come with associated 1-5 star ratings, were those used or not?
There's a "Full screen" button at bottom-right of the image that improves readability.
If it ever sees the light of day. I'm an early backer and they've really had issues keeping their organization together and costs under control.

Maybe by 2020 and for $5000 we will have a truly free phone with the specs of a device from 2009!
Okay, Catholicism. Fair enough.

But I think you're wrong about every other denomination on your list. I've been to enough Baptist and Lutheran churches to feel justified in disagreement. The Presbyterians (including our president) feel much the same way.

The simple fact is that God's blessing = economic prosperity is practically biblical. "May his tribe increase" and all that.

Also I'm not OP and did not refer to megachurches.
Upgrading from 1.13 to 2.x isn't terribly challenging. (1.12 to 1.13 was much worse.) What's holding you back?
I used to ~20 years ago. It was a curses-based mini-emacs in C; the fun part was a notebook-style interface to a Forth-like language I added in. Eventually I wanted the same kind of interface for Python programming in Emacs, and moved on to that with https://github.com/darius/halp.
Which, imho, is why we need to stop making excuses for SQL. It's better than the terrible "NoSQL" alternatives for a lot of reasons, but it's still far outstayed its welcome.

We're past due for something new. Something that natively works with the typed-graph thinking of the client code instead of forcing everything into the flat resultset, but otherwise keeps the ACID guarantees and the relational model.
Welcome to Hacker News. Take your humor elsewhere.
Can you give me an example of a site like this?
That can be effectively done without the explicit tie to Stallman and FSF, whose absolutism many find offputting.
Until they increase their API rate limits, this change is next to useless.
A couple other things I've noticed having to do with "promoted content":

1. uBlock origin seems to block ads in the normal web client, but not in the mobile web client (in desktop FireFox as well as mobile FireFox).

2. Mobile twitter client lacks the drop-down menu where you used to be able to choose "I don't like this ad".

Now that I look at it, though, that menu on the main twitter web app doesn't have that option any more, either. You can "report this ad", which isn't quite the same.

To get to the same menu in the mobile web app, you need to tap/click the add tweet, then choose the more options icon.

The normal twitter web app has now added a "dismiss" option on mouseover.

FFS, there's no consistency of interface across the three at all!
On the Xbox, if you owned it on the 360, you own it on the One. You can either download it from your library if it was a digital purchase, or stick the disc in the One if you have the disc.

I have not noticed any difference between playing, say, Burnout Paradise on my 360 vs. on my One. So it seems like MS actually did a decent job on it.

'Course, you're probably referring to how you have to buy Playstation 1 games to play them on the Playstation 3 or 4, right? I have a PS3, but I've never had any PS1 games. They really don't let you just stick the disc into the PS3 to confirm you own it and then download the emulated game from the Playstation store?
The Beeb is forbidden by law from showing ads in the UK.
Would it work well for algorithms like A*, or other quazi-AI problems that crop up in games?
If "winning" means "same operating system on all devices" then I don't think Electron, etc are competing in that contest. ChromeOS (which I understand to roughly consist of a Linux kernel and Chrome, and not much more) is by far the closest in concept.

Imagine, a process per browser tab for all the things! Why should this not be the case? It would be a revolutionary improvement in process visibility, in general. moreover I don't see why there would be any limitations over what you get with ps and dtrace.

Indeed, I suspect there is a quite nice visualization of the kernel itself that would fit nicely in a browser tab. Maybe not a real-time picture, but surely you could do simple simulations at the very least, and perhaps set configuration options if you wanted to change your own kernel.
We did not use the star ratings.
Introducing support for cross-domain Glimmer components, with xcomponent
Very helpful, thank you!
Ask HN: YC Startup School Weekly Update
Curious if anyone has any thoughts on the YC Startup School Weekly Update.

1. Metric:

- Revenue
- Active Users
- Other

2. Value: Total added last week.

- [SMALL-TEXT-FIELD]

3. Growth %: How much did you grow last week?

- [SMALL-TEXT-FIELD]

4. Additional information:

- [LARGE-TEXT-FIELD]
HTML and CSS "won" on the web. No one in their right mind would call them good or even suitable for their main use case.
Cheating Death in Damascus – The escaping death dilemma
Two studies connecting violent video games and real-life behavior retracted
Yeah, about WiFi. I wanted to bring my desktop somewhere where I wasn't sure I'd have ethernet.

"No problem," says I, "I'll just buy a USB adapter."

I have 802.11ac in my house, and it's pretty nice, so I thought I'd get an 802.11ac adapter. So I run down to the store, and pick up an adapter that says it works on Linux ON THE BOX. I look online, and it is using the RTL8812au, which people have reported working in Linux.

Turns out none of the drivers compile on Linux 4.4+. I managed to mess around with the makefiles and the code a bit to get most of the compile errors to go away, but it was still hanging on a few files that I couldn't make heads or tails of. So I went on Github and downloaded a version that had been updated to account for this device in the past 4 days. No dice.

All told, I probably spent 6 hours trying to get the stupid adapter to work. I would have returned it after hour 1 and bought a more expensive Atheros or Intel adapter, but they literally only make 802.11ac adapters in the mini-pcie form factor.

On one hand, the device was USB 3.0 instead of USB2, was made by Tenda (who kind of cut corners), and all the fixes were either for Ubuntu or Arch, and I'm using Fedora. On the other hand, it's 2017, 802.11ac has been out for a while now. I kind of expect to be able to find at least one 802.11AC adapter that works. Most of the 802.11ac adapters that other people had gotten working only worked in 2.4ghz mode, or only worked with 802.11n.

So that was pretty disappointing. It felt like it was 2006 all over again. (It really would have felt like 2006 if Xorg had broken during this process.) It's not like I bought "outdated" hardware either. The FCC approval is dated December 19, 2016. So you'd expect the driver to compile on a recent kernel.

I think I'm just going to buy an 802.11ac router, run it in client mode, and velcro it to the top of my case.
I made a graphics library IvanK.js and made a Box2D demo for it (using Box2DWeb). It ran smooth even back in 2012 :) http://lib.ivank.net/?p=demos&d=box2D
In the market for Twitter data that we were in at ScraperWiki, it wasn't the price per Tweet that was too much, but the minimum spend and the difficulty of getting access to the data at all.

https://scraperwiki.com/2014/08/the-story-of-getting-twitter...

That aside, our treatment as potential partners was really bad. There just wasn't a process for new ideas to be brought to Twitter management attention. I wouldn't risk using their API for a business again.
In addition to what others have said, this would have a significant impact in accessibility and break a lot of the tools used for those with some sort of disability or accessibility issue. You are basically talking about what Flash used to do, and that's not a road we want to revisit.
This could also be an argument from the opposite side. In a dehumanising place only a market of self-interest survived. People only cared about themselves and would not share any food or other products unless they got something for it.
Wouldn't the "conservative" choice in your example be to replace the part or correct the measurement to spec even though it has worked in the past.
I find their locking issues interesting: they are supporting snapshot isolation for quite some time now, but it's still not default and the community even hardly knows about it. Hint's like NOLOCK are more often suggested as "fix" as considering snapshot isolation.
Hmm. This suggest that 200ug is a relatively strong dose[1] (the dose used in this study is 100ug). It's worth noting that a lot of things - alcohol, marijuana, even Robitussin (DXM) - can have very unpleasant side effects when the dose is too large. Drugs like caffeine and alcohol also have a much greater toxicity than LSD, for what it's worth.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LSD/comments/2hg6io/different_dosag...
That's what I thought, and that makes this all the more interesting!
I think you're being uncharitable in attributing a misunderstanding. The OP used the phrase "in the first place", and it's mostly correct that if you don't have any cached nodes (hence that phrase), the bootstrap nodes do in fact act as a single point of failure for you.

The multicast neighbor discovery is a neat idea. I wonder what percentage of clients/connections it results in successful bootstrapping for.
Before we go there you perhaps want to answer this - what in your opinion is the function of banks and of currency?

If there's a single currency, who gets to set it's value in terms of goods that it can be exchanged for?

If there's a single bank what is its function?
That sentiment is tempting, but unfortunately the "good stuff" does actually occasionally cause insane reactions in some people, even in people who have had perfectly nominal trips on exactly the same batch of substance.
>Currently Mac users are limited to Maxwell GPUs from the company’s 9-series cards, but next week we’ll be able to finally experience Pascal, albeit a $1200 Pascal model, on the Mac.

>We have reached out to Nvidia for a statement about compatibility down the line with lesser 10-series cards, and I’m happy to report that Nvidia states that all Pascal-based GPUs will be Mac-enabled via upcoming drivers. This means that you will be able to use a GTX 1080, for instance, on a Mac system via an eGPU setup, or with a Hackintosh build.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/06/nvidia-titan-xp-beta-pascal-d...
I think it's a fair claim. Labelled data is very hard to come by compared to unlabelled data. Being able to get a highly accurate model with only a small amount of labelled data is a very sought after and practical property.
Hacking and Contributing to Servo on Windows
> Maybe there are special procedures for things that have to move quickly like this?

Yes that's what I'm proposing. I don't know CA specifically but in general courts have what's called a "special term" or an "ex parte part" or something similar. In that court a judge is sitting during the day and is available to sign orders that relate to exigent circumstances, which this would qualify for.

Typically you can file an OSC and/or a TRO and seek temporary relief while you make arrangements to actually begin a proper suit. It's very commonly used, for example to prevent a business partner from cleaning out an office full of jointly owned supplies, or preventing the auction of a property when there's a dispute over ownership.

It's very different from the long slow plodding process by which an actual court case proceeds. But it's applicable here since this isn't an actual court case, it's mistaken identity. Once it comes to everyone's attention formally, with a judge's order, it's almost certain to end right there.
Because workers are not executives.

Instead the push for 15 dollar min wages has pushed fast food industries to find ways to replace them.
Japanese scientists call for boycott of military research
Yes. I don't know why this article is phrased as a question - it is an established fact. Also, what is going on with the location debate Europe vs Asia? Armenia is in the squarely between the caucuses and the middle east.
It's pretty weird to see "correct" justified by calling the opposite "poor taste". We're talking about a mismatch between a style of code and certain tools; a better answer is to use tools that work well with the style of code you like.
We are getting better and better with automatic text generation. I wonder who will be the copyright owner of an AI-generated text, comments, songs, etc.?