skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think someone once proved that all programming languages (or just about) are equivalent in their expressiveness, and given that similar problems arise in all paradigms, it is not surprising that all paradigms have their own names for similar things. Just as monads and continuations are two different ways to express similar computational notions, it would not be surprising if there were others. None of these is more fundamental or "real" than the others. They are simply different ways to formally model an abstract concept.
Watch the whole stream, it was beautiful. There was a view from ground all the way from separation to landing.
Analysis of gender bias in news texts with Python and textacy
The key to flow/meditativr-state is sussposed to be fitting the processing capability someone's brain has , to the task. That way all of your attention is given to a network called "task mode network" and no attention is left to the "default mode network " (which is resonsible for mental chatter and self in past/present) so the brain becomes quiet.

So maybe there's a way to make chores more demanding of attention[1] ? Like deciding to do them in a different way or focus on more/different details ? Maybe that's why the Japanese tea ceremony is so complicated ?

[1]As drumming is , altough maybe there's something meditative about music?
It's not. Calling it theft when technology is transferred to China, is an exaggeration.
No they haven't and they are not even close.

OpenCL is a bad language for synthesis. The strength of an FPGA is deeply-pipeline-able sequential algorithms. C-based languages just aren't good at expressing/controlling pipelining, so the synthesizer/compiler has to infer this but that problem is too hard. You could change 1 line of code, a minor fixup and the clever optimizer fails and your design is suddenly 10x as big.
> Social media has changed the way our society works

Change is not positive per-se. It can be just as easily negative. I had a Facebook account for exactly two weeks and realized this wasn't an improvement over what I already had. I much prefer quality over quantity when it comes to personal relationships and Facebook really does not satisfy that for me. Besides them being absolutely creepy about the way they position themselves and use the mountains of data they gather about people.

On top of that Zuckerberg seems a thoroughly despicable person which doesn't help in trusting the company that he leads.
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The longest thing you’ll see all week: Barry Lyndon
Strong social ties? Strong social ties is what you find in places that don't have internet.
If you're happy to throw away up to 30% of your performance I think you've got to question why you're designing hardware, even on FPGAs. It probably is good news for Altera as you'll now need a higher spec device to solve your problem.
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They will refuse to sell you it again if you do, and given that for security patches you need updates this is fairly effective. They will also refuse to sell to anyone who distributes their kernels, and thus would be obliged to redistribute source, you can only buy it for on premise use. So yes, it falls within the letter of the GPL, and it could in theory be distributed, but it is not in practise.
But driving requires focusing on the road, hence taking neurons away from thinking.
How to hack Under Construction Page and use any background image you want
Not it's not. It's time to stop supporting ad-based businesses. Install an adblocker. Install an adblocker on your friends' and family's computers.
Damn. I thought this had something to do with the Sony Playstation Network.
You can literally go out of business over night if one of your suppliers change business practices, or the law changes, or your lease is up, or interest rates changed, or postage changed, or the price oil changed, or your neighbors changed, or your neighborhood changed, or taxes changed, or the market changed, or society changed, or the economy changed, or thousands of more reasons.
This guy has access to everyone's conversation and anyone he wants to talk to at his finger tips and he has gone off on a "listening tour". Says all there needs to be said, about his ability to have a real conversation on his own platform.
Ask HN: How will SW Development evolve?
Is there a future to "traditional" web based apps using the current, most common stacks (LAMP, MEAN) etc. I'm asking this because I see more and more Data Science, AI and ML related Jobs and programmers branching off to these fields.
Perhaps that'd be good for motor neurons. But walking on concrete paths lets your mind focus and think about new ideas without worrying about tripping on something unexpected
Would NK trust a Western country to make their spy tech?

I'd be worried about getting free rootkit updates from the CIA and UK spooks.
The list of domains owned by Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) & Amazon (Amazon Registry Services, Inc.) probably give a good idea about their future (predictable) priorities (Google - Ads, Android while Amazon's list looks more shopping oriented)

Any ideas on what they they plan on doing with guge & esq domains?
Similar idea, but uses sqlite to make an awk like utility with sql syntax: https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk
I agree.. when I hear that this doesn't exist then I am wondering if the author has heard of Eve or Elm
I agree with this. I've worked countless hours in cafes abusing the free wifi, and I completely understand their position. If cafes shut off their wifi then this will hopefully spur working spaces to open up.
well if you consider that the most successful one can be as a lawyer could be to write or interpret the law then the most successful lawyers would be either politicians or judges. It really depends on your criteria for success.
What do you think about the UI of their flagship search website, goggle.com?
Installing 10-Series GPUs, CUDA8.0RC, and TensorFlow on Ubuntu 14.04
You almost forget that it was an NRO spy sat payload.
There also used to be the Transmeta processors which were x86 compatible and did the translation to VLIW in software (CMS - Code Morphing Software).

I used to have a hp thin client with a Transmeta Efficeon where I installed Debian and it worked remarkably well for a 2004 processor, handily beating some Atoms and VIA Nanos in real-life workloads. Frankly I don't know what led to its demise.
But what? If anything that 8 petabytes is 1/1000000 of a sniff in Universe scale
Also: Rather than get rid of the wifi why not remove power outlets? That will make most people leave after a couple of hours.
Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in
Why do you believe that financial activities don't benefit society?
The library is awesome.
Bruce Schneier's _Cryptography Engineering_ (the second edition of his classic _Practical Cryptography_) might be your best bet, depending on how in-depth you want to go.

https://www.schneier.com/books/cryptography_engineering/
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ESPN is essentially a service and the franchises are a capital asset. As you know long term economic policy for a couple decades has been to inflate and bubble capital assets (real estate, for example). Meanwhile services get a mixed bag of tagging along or declining. So a capital asset like real estate or a pro sports team "must" go up 10x in price over a couple decades and a service may or may not keep up. ESPN kept up for awhile, not so much recently.
I liked and used sharelatex initially, but my thesis was eventually moved to overleaf because overleaf has support for git repo (inside the share button), which is easier to manage for the research group.
How is this any different to "trickle down" on a large scale? If you encourage capitalistic self-interest enough, it will create benefit? Why not just create the benefit directly instead of going the roundabout way of having people act in their own self-interest, fostering mean-spirited relationships between people, competition instead of cooperation and general wastage of resources?

But perhaps there are other laws within capitalism. The law of value, for instance, which its recognition by capitalists and relative ignorance of it by wage labourers leads to Marx's theory of surplus value - this is the side effect of this self-interested activity of labour.
No toilets?? Where are you? Even inner city DC libraries have toilets.
I had worked with ~2 TB of data in CouchDB (a few thousand endpoint calls / sec) for my capstone project at University and I thought I had experience, but reading these comments, I realized how much less experience I really have.
Short answer: yes it would.

Slightly longer answer: there are various ways allowed under the US tax code to receive income from a business and have it taxed not as salary; some of those ways have significantly lower marginal rates than if the income were salary; none of those tricks is going to do you much good at the $100k tier though. May as well think of it as salary for tax purposes.

What you could, and likely would do as this business owner with $100k in profit, is you'd arrange for the business to buy things that are legitimate business expenses but also make your life nicer and/or cause you to need to spend less money from your personal finances. e.g. you need computers, phones, tablets to conduct your business so now you don't need to buy any of those things with your own money. You can't do this with cars, fwiw.
for me, it wasn't just the ESPN cost, which was buried in the package. it was also the "regional sports fees" that Comcast lists as separate line items and have very obvious increases.
In this context, it means the object capability model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability

Which can be used as the foundation of security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

Relevant application in Midori:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/10/objects-as-secure-capabil...
Why are most corporate bonds still traded on the phone?
Show HN: TypeSafe HTML templates in TypeScript. Why learn a template language?
Hi HackerNews!

This is the result of a small side project. I needed an html templating language but didn't feel like learning mustache/handlebars. I'm using TypeScript, so thought: why not have it native and type safe in my language.

Interested in your feedback and thoughts.
-- nicojs
Makes you wonder if that's the core issue here. If you can't communicate well, you would likely end up with issues convincing the kernel devs to take your patches, and a harder time attracting contributors.
The verbosity of VHDL isn't 2x it's more like 20% bigger on average and since VHDL 2008 it's pretty much the same. VHDL can be wordy but it also reads a lot easier & it looks more structured.

Verilog isn't C, it's C-ish, just different enough to make me make mistakes all the time like 'not' in verilog is '~' instead of '!', or the lack of overloading, the weird rules with signed & unsigned numbers and the implicit wire declarations etc. Verilog is full of surprises.

Do you like determinism? Have you ever tried running the same (System)Verilog design on multiple simulators? Almost every time you get different results, VHDL doesn't have this issue.
This may be true. But, if they switch from adding color commentary to being solely color commentary, will people still tune in? I get the sense that people tune in to have their opinions validated. ESPN analysis opinions matter because of ratings. It seems to be a risky strategy.
For the typical office worker, much of the day is spent pretending to work.
It seems the title is clickbait (and should be changed?), they check if your app is 32 bit, but don't seem to fix it for you...
Wait, that's not what's happening. We're not talking about something that actually failed but appeared to work. We're talking about something that was maybe poorly used but still worked correctly. That can be genuinely beneficial.
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I'm in a similar situation as you are, although I get almost no complaints about the price whatsoever, it's unfortunate you never tried something like $12 or $15, because I'm not going to try it either :p
@Coldtea had it right - I meant it has many concepts that are new to the most popular platforms. For example C# is very popular, but what it has of these features has trickled in slowly over the years and many .NET programmers have had no need to master them, same with Java.

Ada was a beautiful design for its time. Maybe its most fundamental flaw was government oversight. So much about designing a widely successful language is non-technical, choosing the right features, trends, hardware, that builds enough momentum to support a self-sustaining ecosystem. To do so often requires an agility that the DOD just doesn't have. Ada is one of so many examples that reminds us technical superiority commonly loses out to pragmatism.

I do like the name, it would have been fascinating to know Ada Lovelace.
ITT: butthurt germans
Have you run into any issues where you would want to work with an otherwise good client, but they would only be able to pay on net 30?
I admit I've only started programming around '99/00, but I don't remember learning "weird" languages being very popular even then. Mainstream communities mostly had a mix of C/C++/Java/Perl/PHP.
Noiszy interview: How a browser plugin masks your digital tracks
I think even though 'Animats wrote this backwards, it doesn't really change the argument all that much. The way capitalism works may be "self-interested actions lead to socially beneficial outcomes", but as a society, we want to have capitalism precisely because of those socially beneficial outcomes. This "side effect" is the reason to employ capitalism in the first place.

Now it turns out (with-hindsight-20/20) that Adam Smith did not fully understand the "mind" behind the "invisible hand". It indeed does arrange for social benefits... except when it doesn't[0]. A good contemporary analysis of this mechanism is the article by Scott Alexander, "Meditations on Moloch".

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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[0] - For instance, a lot of those social benefits are in fact signs of market inefficiency, and those eventually get "corrected" as more and more people compete in a given sector and the margins dwindle.
Amazing video from the ground this time. Link to the webcast at the time of separation.
https://youtu.be/EzQpkQ1etdA?t=1211
How exactly do they enforce this? Do they have any measures to stop a subscriber from posting their patches anonymously?
Having to fill up 24 hours of daily airtime, across multiple channels (how many do they have now? four -- espn, espn2, espnu, espn classic?) has to require thinning out the content.

I'm mostly like you. Sportscenter is largely useless with highlight available on-demand, and the only time I've watched it over the past few years was when major events happened around a team I like. I think that was twice -- Lebron James coming back to the Cavs and the Cavs winning the championship.

There is so much garbage content and I can't imagine spending an entire Sunday morning watching their NFL pregame shows. They are so bad and rehash the same things over and over again. None of their content is any better. PTI set the standard for what a lot of their programming has morphed into, but PTI worked because the guys on it were smart, took interesting angles, and the show was novel. Now that there are 50 other programs just like it, the novelty has worn off and the hosts are largely "hot take" machines.

Really, besides their national NBA game broadcasts or college football, I can't think of any reason why I'd watch ESPN on a routine basis any more. There are sports podcasts that are far better and don't require my full attention than the studio shows ESPN produces.
why are these articles always so pointlessly long. who wants to read all this meandering tangential bullshit when it can be distilled down into two paragraphs at most.
Now that they are monopolies all they need to do is remove the numbers next to the like/retweet/view counter. This is what gives ppl the false high, that trains them live pavlovian dogs to produce reward(count) maximizing behaviour. There is no sane reason to have these counts associated with every sentence someone types/photo they take/video they record other than providing advertisers useful data.

They can still provide that data to advertisors without giving their users the instant gratification high. It's not complicated for anyone with a little imagination. Delay displaying the numbers, display the numbers as temperature gradients etc. As soon as these suggestions are made someone will jump up to say but then some other social network will start peddling the drug. But who believes this is going to happen to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

The competition is just going to get swallowed up or dismantled before they can pose a threat.
This site made me feel strange
It's important to note that this is about fake reviews; not necessarily "fake research". There is an important difference. Fake research (eg. people fabricating measurements) often passes real peer review and is a different problem.

The authors committing review fraud probably are not trying to publish fabricated research; it's more likely they were attempting to make it more likely that their research is published.

Most articles are not rejected by reviewers because the research is "wrong"; rather because they are not significant enough, or other papers are better.
Would you prefer vice signaling?
Just like "spring constant," which is the same for all springs.
Noiszy is a browser extension that attempts to mask your online activities with digital "noise," purporting to reduce the value of data harvested online. It came to the forefront of attention at its launch last month, leading to front-page discussion on Hacker News and Reddit.
https://noiszy.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002995
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/62ld8k/noiszy_a...

I caught up with Noiszy's creator to learn more about the app, how it works and why it has been built.
No, they didn't forget to add that extra detail which adds nothing to their post.
I've managed to finish a few 1 hour runs on pavement only during races, but an hour long trail run in in the woods? I'll plan a weekend around it. In Japanese there is the concept, Forest bathing, shinrin-yoku (森林浴).
The counterexample is Orkut, Google's homegrown, initially successful social network, years before the rise of Facebook. It died mostly from scaling issues, i.e. became slow when many users were on it.
ymmv, but according to our business accountant this trick of paying yourself a very low salary is not kosher with the IRS. They want to see a salary that is justifiable in the context of the market rate for the job(s) you perform for the business. If your salary is significantly lower than that, they are not happy. They are also aware of the idea that the CEO of a coffee shop is not in fact a barista.

Also remember that the FICA tax is capped, so above $117k taxable income there isn't such a big spread between wages income and schedule K income.
Wait. The guy who wrote this lives in Moscow. So was this coffee shop in America, or Russia? Huge difference.
A JSON diff utility, written in Go
Then you will see it is not the bit that flips, it is only yourself.
Agreed; as someone posted above, the correct ideological slur for the National Review is "neocon".
This sentiment is further eloborated in the book "Disciplined Minds" - http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/ I highly recommend it.
Even before this announcement, important parts of the PaX/grsec gcc plugins were apparently not part of the public release, rendering the claimed protections ineffective: https://twitter.com/paxteam/status/858446189624164352 I'm not sure if this was ever publicly announced, or if it was only became public because security testers discovered the bypass and the PaX team responded by saying this wasn't an issue in the private release which they couldn't have access to for testing.
I couldn't make heads-or-tails of it, and stopped reading.
I know why I would go, although realistically speaking there's no chance of that happening. Chasing new ventures makes me feel alive. That's the one thing I particularly enjoy about our industry, we get to try new things constantly. The Internet is like the ideal testing grounds. You have an idea, you create something on the spot.
And there's no bigger adventure than colonizing Mars. Sure, going there means that you'll probably never see Earth again or even worse your relatives and friends. But you know, it doesn't matter that much. After all, we're all alone. Once you come in terms with that you become free.
They mention a "comprehensive report", but no sample. The only way to see what's delivered is to submit an app url and an email.

I tried that, and it just tries to subscribe you to a mailchimp driven mailing list: http://imgur.com/a/mkvYD

Seems scammy to me.
> inflation in Canada is <2% because they essentially exclude housing costs

The practical month to month housing costs are included. Rent is an item in the basket of goods, as are mortgage payments, insurance payments, etc.[1]

> as if that's a minor part of a typical family's budget

What is missing is the "once in a lifetime" down payment made on the purchase of a home. But that happens so infrequently that it is difficult to see how spending changes over time. In terms of family budgeting it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to exclude it - you don't really need to budget for it.

[1] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/62-001-x/2017003/tbl/tbl-4-2-en...
> Google had search and used that to prop the rest. Simple.

Simple? Tell that to anyone else doing search.
Show HN: I wrote a book for tech job hunting and negotiating
https://www.createspace.com/7083159

For anyone who's new to the job hunt game or just a little rusty, I recently put together all my hints, tips, and tricks into 1 coherent book. There's lots of advice in there, but the main takeaways are (1) apply to lots of jobs to get practice going through the interview process (2) don't be nervous or feel that the company in question has the upper hand ever.

The book also goes through how to clean-up your resume so it looks a little more interesting, where to look for jobs, and has some solid answers to typical interview questions.

I've got about ~15 years experience in tech, and have interviewed several hundred candidates at this point (and have also gone on a fair amount of interviews myself).

I crammed every bit of advice I wish I knew way back when I started in there. Hopefully others find it helpful! (it's also up on Amazon)
that is a severely reductionist outlook on a set of activities that generates billions of dollars of economic activity the entire world over.
I choose several words describing the project and look them up in a Latin dictionary. These are already a natural sounding words, so you may tweak them a little.

Pros: the domains are almost always available, sounds classy and trustworthy

Cons: it usually doesn't describe what you do just by the name of it.
What is truly amazing is that this is becoming normal.
Media is in reaction to multiple people catching deadly illnesses. Media can also be silenced. Worse, it's not even guaranteed the media catches on that. And it'll be extremely localised.

FDA rules prevent those events from happening, as well as guaranteeing a baseline for food quality.

I'm going to stay with the FDA.