skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't get much quicker or low maintenance than gitlab, though it is definitely not lightweight.
Do you need the streaming features? IE, would a json endpoint in a technology of your choice be good enough? Would a message queue like rabbitmq be appropriate?
Doesn't always take a Mathematician to show it. Until (within a few years) recently, there was a district (15, I think - but unsure) in Illinois that looked like a horse shoe. There was a district that was drawn east/west that surrounded another entirely in it's center, and it was only connected by an uninhabited area down the center of a tollway. That was the only thing that connected the north and south areas of the district. It was obviously drawn to ensure a Latino Representative was in the Congress. I don't know how you'd prove it, but it was obvious looking at the map of the district & it's demographics. I can't find a link to prove it, because, of course, the district lines have been redrawn.
I can't wait until this is implemented into GitHub!
Then I can really code socially! /s
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What a great time to start learning linguistics and phonetics!
Personally I did not find this deceptive or confusing as members of jumped out at me right away. I've also seen several other startups do the same thing before. Beyond the article, I don't know anything else about this company per se.
Andrew Miller does not hide his ties to Zcash; I believe none of the other authors are associated with Zcash. I do not think he needs to recuse himself from academic study of competing currencies, just because he has loose ties to Zcash.

Also, the authors do not hide the fact that the vulnerability is not new. Most science is incremental; I haven't seen any evidence of 'academic dishonesty'.
It should be scriptable... It would be a whole other level
Per the HN guidelines, please don't express an expectation of downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If this is something you're actually concerned about, please take some extra time to craft your comment to be assubstantive, reasoned, and well-balanced as you can.
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That whole channel is amazing! I can start just listing all the videos by virtue of picking out awesome ones, but check out the one he did on Euler's formula[1]. Blew my mind.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmuCPvRoWQ&t=385s
But ipfs.io is just the gateway.

I mean, this is the same document:

https://ipfs4uvgthshqonk.onion.to/ipfs/QmWYTeggKeL8xBitA8uQW...
It's been done and it works. I believe they just map the image to a spectrogram and convert it to audio: https://www.seeingwithsound.com/
> Interview processes and resume writing are more important to them than actual knowledge.

This should be unsurprising. For many, many jobs, the actual knowledge requirements are dwarfed by the importance placed on interview skills and a polished resume.
A host who specializes in Wordpress can take a lot of the sting out managing it (patching, caching, security, etc). I'm in the process of moving a bunch of WP sites off of dedicated hosting for this exact reason.

So far the best options look like WPEngine, Wordpress.com, or Pantheon.

I've also worked with Squarespace and would caution that developers can find it to be frustrating--requires a lot of hovering and clicking to configure pages and post content. Not really a fan now--too much of a pain.
The same, a month and a half.

But if you're waiting for a feature that was just finished to get into stable, that time is faster. You will only have to wait for N+2 instead of N+3.
> There's quite the contrast between the way experienced athletes who already are very fit incorporate interval training long-term (often 1x/week)

1x/week? Where are you getting that number from? For many athletes, their sport essentially is interval training (e.g. sprinting, tennis, American football).

As a pretty capable sprinter, I do something akin to interval training 4x/week, weight training 2x/week (one heavy day, one light), and then mobility and blood flow work whenever I can.
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My understanding is that the OSIC program also included funding for Rackspace + Intel OpenStack developers, some proportion of whom will probably be losing their jobs out of this I imagine.
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> should show that the overwhelming majority of Zcash transactions have the privacy properties of Bitcoin transactions (or worse).

Agreed, this should updated to specify that only transactions between shielded addresses are protected. The point they are trying to make is that the anonymity set between shielded addresses is that of all transactions in the anonymous set. (FWIW, this is a pre-publication draft.)

> No? It seems kind of imbalanced to have an analysis which emphasizes the security compromises caused by older monero (pre-CT, pre minimum mixin count)

ZCash is pretty explicit about the difference between shielded and transparent addresses....

However, the news here isn't about ZCash. Monero's main claim to fame is that it has an "opaque" blockchain, but this isn't cryptographically ensured. Instead, it relies on each client to create dummy transactions that mirror real ones. That leaves Monero wide open to side channel attacks now and in the future.

One would expect careful analysis and much more cautious language. Instead, it looks like clients weren't even doing basic checks:

> We find that among Monero transaction inputs with one or more mixins, 62% of these are deducible, i.e. they can be incontrovertibly linked to the prior TXO they spend.

It's a solid piece of research and even if Monero fixes everything in this upcoming release, that doesn't make this analysis any less worrying.
OP meant "raises the question."
I thought Calexit was a troll. Ambitious, but not creative. He's serious? Bye and enjoy Russia?
Any chance i could get that as a static document? It seems chrome on linux and microsoft office online don't get along
The most credible threat is that of the PRC towards Taiwan. Rhetorical defense of the PRC is universally accepted in mainstream western discourse.
Someone in the comments pointed out that Youtube's new structure is designed so that only famous people can make money. I have no idea whether this is true, but it would fit it with the constant drumbeat of threats, pressure and lawsuits from the large media companies. The democratized model of Youtube and other video sites is a threat to their business model. Even though they've gotten their way with pirated content, they now need to crack down on anything original, because the independent content takes attention away from the dross on television, and to them, the viewers themselves are their property.
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Dopamine released from task success primes long term potentiation, effectively acting as the analog of the cost function's gradient. The larger the dopamine hit (generally) the bigger the learning step.

You are correct that neurons can't do backprop. Keep in mind that the networks of the brain aren't straight feedforward, they're recurrent. In order to provide temporal control of activation propagation throughout the network, inhibitory neurons are needed. Thus, instead of "tweaking weights" backwards in the network, the brain learns to activate inhibitory neurons to provide forward feedback against activation.The mechanism is different but the learning effect is pretty similar.
That's a bit overwrought, but it makes sense. Firing @ev was an act of fearful stupidity. No matter how many fail whales flew, installing a square like Costolo was a complete overreaction. We know this because as TFA observes he killed the company in his first year, and still the zombie trudges on. Whatever crazy shit @ev was going to do, it would have taken years to destroy twitter, and might well have actually produced a business model. "Pulse of the planet" was probably not in the cards, but it was conceivable.

Whatever might have happened, the obvious way to profits capable of reviving the zombie we see now isn't actually that far from the "media company in ads" model that TFA derides. Twitter is a broadcast platform. It is most valuable to those broadcasters who reach and monetize a large audience. Charge them for that audience without chasing the audience away, and now you have a business.
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Obviously. By sleeping enough you get the sleep you need, by not sleeping you obviously don't.
Was the comment veiled? That was not the intent, my apologies if it was perceived that way. ;-)
What America needs an amicable divorce. (Several, actually.)

Since that won't happen, America will eventually get a nasty one.
Source is: https://github.com/hashbang
Anyone here using Lucene.net for anything?
+1000%. Dick did what he was brought in to do. The way it panned out is another strong datapoint for the argument that consumer internet companies should be led by product/visionary types while detail/implementation types run the operation of the business.

Like Zuckerberg/Sandberg or Jobs/Cook or...
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You can just use normal (stable) Firefox for that. It still has the same great devtools!
Sure, agreed! But it's not like the two parties are all that different in that they both act on the interests of wealthy elites.
The length of the canal would be different, wouldn't it?
Very novel approach! I can't see this scaling to the scope of most modern games though. Eventually it always comes back to an army of QA testers.
Your statement is correct, but doesn't tell the rest of the story.

The disk has an onboard data buffer, usually implemented in DRAM. That DRAM chip is likely sourced by the lowest bidder, and it is likely not to have either parity or ECC. Also the CPU used in the drive can introduce its own data errors and corruption. It doesn't even have to be hardware. A firmware bug can also corrupt data.

There are numerous buffers and storage elements involved in transferring the data to/from the disk's onboard memory to/from the computer's RAM. Many/most of those elements are not checked for parity. Data is subject to corruption in transit.

That's what makes a filesystem like ZFS so interesting. It checks the entire data path. It doesn't care where the corruption occurs.
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I didn't say it wouldn't be funny, just hinted that people were laughing at the OP on the other side of the world too :)

For instance, this episode of Last Week Tonight on the french elections is just full of "ho ho the french eat snails and like pastries" jokes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZir1L7fSY

I'm sure there's the equivalent jokes for americans.
I can get it to say "yeeeeaaaahhhh"
I tried to find more information on this and the best thing I could find was this blog post claiming that you can't get permanently stuck in the Water Temple (at least, by using keys in the wrong order).

It looks like the dungeon is set up with a few carefully designed chokepoints using the water level mechanics to stop players from going too far down the wrong path:

http://blog.breakingzelda.com/2013/03/the-water-temple-myth-...

Unfortunately, the author also claims there is an alternate way to ruin your game in the water temple that they'll cover in a follow-up article, but that article doesn't exist.
Has anyone considered that one of the main reasons for Twitter's lack of growth is that the product in itself is opaque to most users? Unless you have a following, there's no such thing as a "friend network" on Twitter. The product is not social, contrary to what most people think. It's a boring, lonely existence on Twitter if you're not a somebody and don't have the time or personality to become one. It's a niche product, a niche that happens to be 300M MAUs (I think they should measure "monthly engaged users" and the number would actually look much worse) and no more. Unless they make the product inherently _social_ and appealing to a broader set of people, I don't see them growing this number, no matter how they slice and dice it.

The argument the writer makes is a valid one but just a hypothesis. You can't say for sure if that was the reason. Developers are not sprinting to build apps on Instagram and Snapchat but both are growing like wildfire. A social network needs to be social, feel social, and make you feel like you have friends who want to listen to your drivel on it.

For all you know, Ev might have turned it into a "pulse of the planet" and it would've still failed to be social and/or make money. Also, we're talking of a 2009 meeting that talks of his ambition, that's |7| years ago - ample time for it to have gone astray in a different direction.
Tell them to write the software themselves. Then, when they say that they can't, tell them that most of the rest of the world can't, either. There's a reason that it's a specialty. Whether or not you are as good as an expert does not matter. Whether or not you are good enough to do the job that they can't do for themselves, does.
The compensation vs time/effort required getting a PhD must surely have a lot to do with this. Wasn't the hey day of US science during WW2 and the Cold War, when government funding was much higher?
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In the 60's and 70's I lived in a town which didn't have any department stores except "5 and dime" stores. To get really good stuff you could go into the city or you could go to the Sears catalog store. You could literally walk into a store and browse their catalog, order stuff from a clerk behind a counter, and wait for it to come in. There were some small items like mixers on display, but not necessarily in stock. During the holiday rush, this store would be hopping.

The Sears catalog store in my town was in the same small mall (think "bigger than a strip mall") as a "5 and dime" store and a supermarket. It was not the anchor store, the supermarket was.

I almost relived that last week when I bought a router from Best Buy's web site and picked it up from the nearest store. Best Buy is not the only B&M chain that has this. I could imagine that to the extent retailers survive it is in this fashion or something like it. Either about the same size as now for browsing, or smaller pick-up points.

And then of course we have drones and so on.

Keep in mind though, Amazon is showing us how to annihilate such a model by bringing up trust problems (see "commingling").
This is Art. Thank you for doing Art on HN.
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https://feedback.canny.io :)
I think Dick is actually a pretty good CEO and told a good story and had a good vision for Twitter as a business. It was just a vision for "Twitter as it exists right now" which is what a hired gun CEO is going to have a vision for. I can imagine Dick being a great founder/CEO.

But yes - surrounding Jack (pre-Evan switch) with a STRONG #2 was the move. When that didn't happen, can't blame them for not seeing it at the time!, Dick was probably the best they could do. Still, it's sad. Evan's vision for Twitter was correct and more obvious now than ever.
This operating agreement doesn't really differ from a regular LLC agreement except that it does away with members putting capital into the business, which is usually where the entire difference in voting rights comes into play.

Minor nitpick with the note about forming in Oregon vs Delaware - Businesses generally pay tax where they do business instead of/in addition to where they are incorporated. The discussion of corporate taxes also isn't particularly relevant to a usual LLC situation where all the income is passed through, and the members will just pay tax where they live.

In addition Delaware has a very complete body of business case law that is a major reason businesses choose to incorporate there. It's not generally for dodgy tax reasons. I will definitely concede that a lot of people start business in Delaware when they definitely don't need to because of some magical perceived advantage but there are real benefits for some businesses that don't involve ripping off your home state.

I also take slight issue with the note about the business not existing to make a profit for itself. Every business exists for the benefit of the people who own it. Obviously not all businesses are owned by the people who work in it, but nowhere is there a business that exists solely for the purpose of loading up a corporate bank account with no shareholder as the ultimate recipient.

The note as it's written points more to the distinction between big C-Corps and every other entity than it does to the distinction between business as it's done today and co-ops.

It's basically a justification for self employment rather than a justification for a co-op specifically.

Quick edit: I love the spirit this is written in but I feel like it's unnecessarily critical of the way businesses are formed today. In my experience, people who run small businesses think a lot about fairness, and just because that doesn't always manifest itself in all equal everything doesn't mean it's not fair.
What I'm saying is that if Steam can support many distros easily, then it is certainly possible for Intuit/Sage/Adobe to as well without that much extra work than just focusing on one distro. It really comes down to just providing packages for each package manager (Deb, RPM, etc.). Linux environments aren't all THAT different at the end of the day.
its bc these professors are tenured and get grants well into their 60s and 70s partly bc they are brilliant, and partly because they are well connected. peer review is in favor of its peers.
I am very eager to see what's in store here when it goes live. If indeed it contains accurate, unbiased and factual data then it is a great project. And it is about time someone did it. I wish it was citizen funded instead of rich individuals (even if the intentions are good). But I will take what I can get for now.
H1B as it should be. Only for highly skilled. It will be a severe blow to bodyshops and companies which thrive on cheap H1B workers. My prediction: Big corporations will come up with N number of reasons & lobbying because their profits depend on cheap H1B workers and outsourcing.
The reports out of Mexico are a dire warning of how bad it can get for journalists.
I'll get excited when it comes out. What is in it for ballmer?
I have a close family member who is a doctor, and I've always said how envious I am of her company's structure. All new doctors that come in are on partnership track, and it only takes two years to make partner (but there is a buy-in period). It is a large practice with over 80 doctors, and the practice is wholly owned by the doctors (it also employs a large number of technicians and support staff). Being in a situation where you're both "the boss" and "the worker" is rare these days, but it can be incredibly satisfying.
Kinda sounds like "I'm sitting in a room"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room
Interesting! I always thought lawyers did that...
I really never liked Ballmer, but I did love him for the Developers dance, and now, well, this is awesome. I hope he does it in a long-term sustainable way.
Absolutely, you're right. The argument is just a hypothesis and unfortunately, the known laws of physics don't allow us the time travel capabilities necessary to actually test it.

However, what you're saying fits in quite nicely with the thesis of the argument: If Twitter had seen itself as a platform for capturing and analyzing "the real-time state of the world" instead of a "social network" or a "media company," its opaque product would likely have been less of an issue.
It makes his wife happy? That is what is discussed in the article. Frankly, it's a reasonable motivation.
Yet another "ads are bad, third party clients are good" post. Seen it at least a dozen times and still yet to see any evidence of an alternate strategy that has actually been thought through.

FourSquare made a data business work because location data is valuable from the largest to the smallest business. Twitter data isn't and so the comparison is tenuous at best. And Bloomberg, really ? The idea that Twitter could be an alternative completely misreads the industry.
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I think this is an interesting point:

>One rule Mr. Ballmer said his team made early on was to use only government data — no outside providers — to avoid accusations of bias. But this created its own challenges.

Its going to be interesting to see the site. I wonder if it will be free?
Its a niche product because people you actually know aren't on twitter - if there's as many people on twitter as there is on facebook, its a plenty good platform to compete with the instagrams/etc of the world.

I think the author of the OP has good points, but with the huge rush to monetize as fast as possible in 2012 I doubt there would ever be patience to achieve the goal - nor do I think they've used their engineering resources wisely. I don't think a single person on HN can tell you what the hell their 5000 something engineers actually do (may be wrong number), given the frankly very limited usages of the site and the apps, and the lack of features over time.
Did you perchance read the article? It's points were a little different from that.
It's quite possible for someone to be a mediocre CEO and still do good, smart things. This is a good thing, and smart.
I'm on it :p
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The article mentions that the data shows a huge allocation of resources to education. Why is education publicly funded in the USA, and not left to market forces? Can't that be considered a "socialist" policy?
Disclaimer: I hold Monero

In my opinion, this is an attempt at smearing a better cryptocurrency competing for the same recognition: true anonymity.

It could very well be the tip of a broader, coming attack. The developers of other cryptocurrencies are spending money for marketing and acceptance into exchanges, Monero is not.

They are willing to grease the wheels to success while Monero grows organically instead. This may or may not be a problem for Monero. If they run a smear-campaign on Monero, they could win with their inferior cryptocurrency.

There is a much better/detailed response to the claims made in the paper on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/65pon8/monero_linka...
>"The listed examples include prepending sudo"

Which you can get by typing:

sudo !!

and git completion is in contrib:

https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/completion

Not really a strawman is it?
What an unfortunately brief article. The reason seems clear to me[+]: there are plenty of science students but not enough entry level "professional" jobs. Hence the long post docs, the multiple post docs, until the poor candidate gives up. Either we need more research labs and universities or we need to age scientists out. I would prefer the former, but who knows?

+ (but like many beliefs, a study is needed)
FTA: "Marakby’s departure comes not too long after Uber lost its head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, VP of growth and SVP of engineering."

This feels like one of those things that's going to keep snowballing.
> Marakby’s departure comes not too long after Uber lost its head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, VP of growth and SVP of engineering.
Are you into Science Fiction? You may enjoy Nancy Kress' "Beggars in Spain." It's a story with a similar central thesis.
"“But come on, doesn’t the government take care of the poor, the sick, the old?” Mr. Ballmer recalled telling her."

Too bad he never had a mentor who was an expert in philanthropy...
Real time state of the world is a nice platform for the ones who want to check the real time state of the world every day. Most of FB/Snap/Insta's B+ users just want to shoot the breeze with their posse.