skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have to conclude that all journalism is mostly lies and state propaganda is behind much of it.

non sequitur

From a few chosen examples, it's a massive stretch to say journalism is "mostly lies".

It's a further stretch to talk about state propaganda without distinguishing between various topics of journalism (political, sports, tech, economic, etc) not to mention source and past performance.

This is just FUD, and it's facile.
> costing 50% more than their US-made Longbow equivalents

When U.S. military equipment is considered a bargain... you're in deep doo-doo
This is your source to defend. 85% of smartphones purchased in 1Q16 were non-Apple. You used this figure to claim that 85% of all people don't own iPhones.

You're most likely right, but I don't know what kind of honest conversation can be had with someone who is so willing to pull one over on the rest of us to force his point. You derived your own figure from an unrelated figure and implied a connection.

If you had answered "Oh haha yup, my bad" that'd be excusable. But it looks like you're running with it and / or throwing the burden on me for some reason.
100% agree with you. However - posts like these might give encouragement to people who know a language that they can actually accomplish Project XYZ in said language, especially if there's accepted norms about what types of work a language is "good for".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Nice but unreadable semitransparent & thin fonts.
Market cap is a fairly easily manipulated statistic, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense as a comparison anyway.

For one thing, a lot of those tokens are either centralized or represent products that don't even exist.

For another, they are over-counted. Imagine the thought experiment: I create a new eth token and sell a bunch, pumping the market cap of my new asset to $100M. That eth that was paid for my asset was not sold - I'm still holding onto it.

Now I've just added $100M+ to the 'dominance' factor by doing nothing. People bought my token, and maybe even bought eth to buy my token, with no sell pressure being added anywhere in the eth ecosystem. This extra dominance was just sort of poofed out of nowhere.

So, 55% is not really as meaningful as some people ascribe.
Well, in the case of oil, the limiter is a physical thing - accessible petroleum deposits. (which; things like fracking and shale oil were able to somewhat mitigate or replace).

In the case of economic growth, it's productivity (which is a function of automation), and monetary supply (which is a function of fiscal policy guys playing chicken with the banks). It's not clear that there is a hard physical limit on either of these quantities.

In fact: the innovation represented by automation, might also be seen as similar to the factors against peak oil: as fracking and shale oil are also technical innovations.
Regarding NPM compatibility: I'd be worried about potential security issues with something like npm. I recognize that one must already put a lot of trust on developers when using extensions, but I'd worry NPM would make it a lot easier for a nefarious developer to add malicious code to a really deeply buried dependency.
That said, what's stopping remote engineers starting to work in expensive regions (say Vancover/Toronto) and then moving to cheaper regions (Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Alberta) for example - would salaries be adjusted every time someone moves around?

Gitlab people on here have previously said yes: pay gets adjusted when you move.
Yes, I think that would be great!
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MapD's GPU-powered database is now open source
So no, it's not even gratis, it's $500+ depending on how crappy hardware you want it to be tethered to.
Not compared to wire transfers or credit card clearing, which can take 3 and 30 days, respectively.
Yes, assignment counts as a use.

That will get you an "unused variable" warning though, which you can suppress by binding to _ instead.
Curious to understand why there has been a sudden jump in the last few weeks.
Can someone explain to me why Bitcoin is compared to a Ponzi scam so often. I understand what a Ponzi scam is and have a decent understand of Bitcoin. I'm curious if people just mean it's scam and a Ponzi scam is fresh in their memory.
I'm not seeing it, but then again I only work with 2-3 companies for months at a time, so I'm less sensitive to minor ups and downs. I also consult on software marketing and not development, so I wonder if there's more demand for consultants in the former than the latter. That would be surprising.

Instead of labeling yourself a Rails developer, could you switch to consulting on business problems? It may be that you use Rails to solve them, but that shouldn't be relevant to the client.

See: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
If you think it's going to crash, why not sell it all and buy later? Or do your powers work only one way?
Replace "game" with "software", and your post is equally valid.
Any examples out there of someone actually following this model? I'd love to see it in action.
Sophia is a modern transactional key-value / row storage library
A CarPlay-ready Pioneer AVIC fits just fine in our '05 xB.
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I thought that was the case, but wasn't sure, so I did not include it in my original comment, so thanks for pointing it out and providing the link!
...and it still does.
TortoiseGit-like GUI for Linux. Surprisingly there is nothing even remotely as comfortable as it was.
Yeah for sure. We only had to calculate 1 or 2 iterations of the game and had a random seeded array as input and preallocated array we had to populate as output so there was a lot of optimization that wasn't worth it if you were actually looking to implement Game of Life, it was designed specifically to get you to think about computer system stuff.
A lot of people have to unlearn "classic" OOP inheritance in order to learn Go. That's a significant change in paradigm.
In Britain, I think the banks charge each other. According to [1], 98% of withdrawls in the UK are free.

I assume this averages out amongst the large banks, who probably each have their fair share of convenient places. The small banks pay for their customers' convenience; presumably a very worthwhile cost for some of the new banks or Internet-only banks.

[1] http://www.link.co.uk/

[2] http://www.link.co.uk/about-link/statistics/
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Currency isn't SUPPOSED to be this volatile.

Currency is NOT supposed to be an investment mechanism in and of itself.

If I buy a loaf of bread for $1 now, I should be able to buy a loaf of bread for $1, 10 years from now.

Currency inflation is BAD, and so is currency deflation.

Stability is GOOD.

The fact that bitcoin's value keeps skyrocketing proves that it is a speculative currency which is too volatile for use. The only way I would trust bitcoin for anything would be for short-term holding to transfer value from point a to b, and then convert it back into a stable currency.

The only way I would invest in Bitcoin is if I was totally okay with potentially losing every penny I invested. It could literally drop to zero tomorrow if something happened to it (like a major country making it illegal, for example).
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Are you getting enough sleep? (BBC-Video, self test)
Sounds like you should switch to a credit union, friend.
IPC is amazing. We had some "slow" code, did a little profiling, and found that a hash lookup function was showing very low IPC about half the time. Turns out, the hash table was mapped across two memory domains on the server (NUMA) and the memory lookup from one processor the other processors memory was significantly slower.

perf on a binary that is properly instrumented (so it can show you per-source-line or per-instruction data) is really ghreat.
WeWork used legal exemption to deny workers overtime pay: report
I agree the market cap is pretty distorted, but the 24 hour volume is also close to 50% bitcoin.
I really doubt that reddit post is anything but attention seeking. It would take weeks to conduct such a transaction from start to finish. You couldn't do it on a whim "today".
If we wanted to actually solve the homeless problem, we'd build cheap housing. Pretty much everything else follows. This isn't politically feasible, since everyone wants to make it difficult to do near them in hopes of foisting the problem of "undesirables" off to anywhere else.

So assuming some long-term political will to overcome the NIMBYs, here's a plan that'd actually work to solve SF's homeless problem:

1. Design a standard-plan Single-Room Occupancy building, along the style of the Russian Khrushchyovka [1]. Prefab / economy of scale, three to five stories, no elevator, shared bathrooms and kitchens. Optimize it to be the cheapest habitable room that you can give someone a key to.

2. Pass a state law allowing a department to buy land and build one of these regardless of local zoning and input. You want to stop us from fixing the housing problem? Too bad, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

3. Add in a feedback mechanism to force construction of more housing where/when rents get too high. Something like set up a waitlist system and automatically build another one of these when the waitlist gets long enough inside a geographic area. Qualify people for free or subsidized rents based on current market rates - rental rates go up, and you can make more money and still qualify, which causes more people to enter the waitlist, which causes more units to get built, which drives rents down.
It's also true and nice for most modern game engines. I'm quite sure Game of life was just a subject for the exercise with the purpose to show that you can get major speedups without changing the algorithm - you don't always have a better one as backup.
Akka Typed: Mutable vs. Immutable
ALMA telescope captures explosive star birth
The market always prices in future utility (as best predicted), not present.

The same with future non-utility - oil price is dropping because everybody knows that Saudi (and the rest) sit atop a sea of oil which is not as needed anymore (solar, electric cars, ...)
You're ignoring history; Clinton was unsuccessfully impeached, to assert that no one will bring impeachment charges unless they're sure they can win is simply objectively factually incorrect.

We're not going to agree, not remotely, so just leave it at that.
We're playing one right now. Kills you if you succeed, too.

Must be a bug.
Ripple (XRP) even surpassed ETH to have the second largest market cap behind XBT for a little while
The question is whether it will crash from 2000 to 800, or from 6000 to 2500.
Your site contains 5 tiny files, each written in a different syntax, i.e.

README.md - 8 lines of Markdown
app - 6 lines of bash
build.gradle - 14 lines of Apache Groovy
log4j.xml - 18 lines of XML
main.js - 8 lines of Javascript

There's something wrong with the state of the ICT industry when so many different syntaxes are required for something so simple as getting Gradle to build some Javascript for the JVM.
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The Java folks have no more control of corporate policy than the Solaris folks did. You're fooling yourself if you think they've got any control whatsoever.

Did those Java folks also decide to start extorting customers?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java...

If the answer is yes - then they're no better than the Oracle folks they work for. If the answer is no, then they clearly have no say in what REALLY happens when it comes to Oracle's decision making.
they down-voted him.
Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Cross $800B Valuation
"Connectors being torqued off PCBs was nearly unheard-of 15 years ago."

That's because we were still primarily doing through-hole soldering, and SMD wasn't such a big thing, yet.
Thanks a lot! We're having lots of fun!
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I feel like all of the evidence we have seen is that if something has a camera or microphone then it will be recording you. It might be hackers, law enforcement, overreach by corporations, mass surveillance. But if it exists, it will be used.

Anecdote time. I remember turning on my iPhone and briefly seeing a picture of myself from earlier that day. I don't think I had ever used the front camera on the phone up until that point. My phone was spying on me. It was the creepiest and most unsettling feeling seeing that picture of myself where it should not have been. There were lots of reports of this sort of thing at the time. And I was surprised to see it happen to me. Not entirely pleased with Apple but Google is worse.
You will appreciate Every Noise at Once[0] maybe. It's all AI, but uses data from a massive set of users. It maps all chartable Spotify genres, and groups them into 3 playlists each. So for the genre, say "classic french pop"[1], you'd click in and see all the associated bands within that genre and see Spotify playlist links – they are:

The Sound of Classic French Pop – A sampling of music that defines the genre

The Pulse of Classic French Pop – Music that is often played by people who listen to lots of Classic French Pop

The Edge of Classic French Pop – New or obscure music recommended for people who like Classic French Pop

It's an incredibly deep web of playlists and music recommendations that has completely changed the way I experience Spotify. Highly highly recommend.

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0. http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

1. http://everynoise.com/engenremap-classicfrenchpop.html
Despite everyone saying SSMS is hands down the best database IDE, while this may be true it is also true that MSSQL tooling is a train wreck compared to what it could be. It almost seems Microsoft intends to keep it this way, perhaps because they'd have to finally admit to the decade of neglect? Who knows the exact reason, but it's a sad situation.
I would be surprised if this device were not already compromised by our government.
>Median wages stayed stagnant. So people drop out of the middle class. They stop going to the movies and take on more hours or a part time job in order to pay their phone bill.

But we can get that "side-hustle" now, so that makes it all right?
Satoshi is gone, so unless you're claiming to be Satoshi, then no one is trying to claim that title.
Using IPC as a proxy for utilization is tricky because an out-of-order machine can only get that max IPC if the instructions it is executing are not dependent on not-yet-computed instructions.

In-order CPUs are much easier to reason about; you can literally count the stalled cycles.
I use SQL Server daily and I love the relational model. The core SQL language I dislike because it's verbose, backwards, and restricts sane forms of reuse. The procedural components of MS SQL are just plain miserable.

I'm constantly frustrated that the two options in the database world appear to be "use SQL and all its anachronistic warts" or "give up on the relational model". NoSQL throws the baby out with the bath-water.

But this is a tangent. The original post came about calling T-SQL a "procedural language". Which is inaccurate... but the author was talking about adding extensions to Sqlite - SQlite is already a SQL dialect. So if you're bolting on T-SQL to Sqlite, what's the main thing it will bring to the table?

It's procedural components. So, in the context of comparing Sqlite to T-Sql, using the term "procedural language" might be a misnomer, but it makes sense here.
Why stability is better than volatility?

It doesn't seem that obvious to me. Every time price stability is forced onto something, it just destroyed its market.
All good for now, top left nuclear site on the map:

http://radiationnetwork.com/

EPA: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-richland-wa
It is an asset and not a currency.

People holding it want the price of it to go as high as possible. There is no incentive to have a stable currency when people are still wanting to buy into the hype and liquidity is still there to dump it.

I don't think it is a true Ponzi scheme but I definitely think people mistreat it.
100% agree with this article. The cloud is where heavy computational work belongs but it's not trivial to leverage these resources today given the complexity of existing offerings. We built https://paperspace.com to make this easy and affordable. Ping me if you want to test out the platform or if you have any questions!
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IIRC in the good old days, ICQ had separate status updates for Available and Available to Chat.
"Those barrel connectors are longer and so provide even more leverage.."

Those are rarely surface-mount components, though. Even in my new sound chair, the input and output jacks are thru-hole.
ETF approval is a real long shot. The SEC already rejected it, with reasoning that makes it unlikely to be reversed anytime soon.
Should have hired you...
Earplugs are great.
Or three modules.

Or two modules without a circular dependency.

When the going gets weird, good programmers move boundaries.
How, in 2017, has Amazon not learned that messaging that doesn't extend to the PC is useless. Could you enter a more crowded market without any differentiation to speak of?
It's kind of lost to history, but in the 1930s when Nobel Prize winner F.A Hayek was lecturing at the London School of Economics and arguing with Keynes he made some pretty good arguments against a constant increase in the quantity of currency in his critique of Keynes' Paradox of Savings: https://www.mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving
SCons: A software construction tool
I'd like to understand where the trade flow is coming from, it may have something to say about other, legitimate markets. That's way more interesting and valuable.
Having assisted a photographer who spent weeks coming up with ideas for and planning sometimes single photographs we traveled like 100km to take, a both very gifted and work obsessed person, I am absolutely firm in "not being a real photographer" even though I do have somewhat of an eye for it, if I may say so myself. That's not to belittle what I or others do, but my way to tip my hat. I cannot use one word to conflate all that, she paints with light, she thinks long and hard about what she will paint and how she will do it, she knows her palette, and doing right by what ever is going on in her head as well as she can consumes her. I am not that way, and I doubt the people who make most of the photos we see on the web are that way.

And yes, she could do that 100% digitally too, she uses digital if need be, and the big frame camera stuff she scans anyway, to mangle in photoshop. She just also spent her nights in the dark room she had built in her apartment ^^

Have you ever met someone who is passionate about dancing? The kind that kills your knees by the time you're 30? Imagine saying to them "oh, I'm a dancer too", just because I sometimes dance at home or at the club. In a sense, yes I'm a "dancer", in another, heck no. And the distinction I'm looking for isn't covered by "professional photographer" at all.

Oh, and I also feel that way about the "music" I make with trackers. I put it in quotes not because I don't listen to it for hours on end with a grin on my face, but because I just derp around until I like the result. I know how seriously in contrast I take the lyrics I write, that's an entirely different game; but the "music" really could be the way I make it or a million other ways, I don't care too much. I'm easy to please and lazy in that regard. Everybody has to decide that for themselves, I'm not trying to delineate "serious art" or define "art" in general, but still, if you'd call me a musician I'd say that feels subjectively wrong, I don't want that label, it's a bit too big.
Great story. For anyone interested in having a sample and to test yourself a bit I can recommend Kilimanjaro. It's very touristy but it'll definitely make you push yourself to beyond what you think are your physical limits.
It doesn't. But this article is interesting (rare/novel) because it is about Rust, not because it is about making a game.
> The fact that bitcoin's value keeps skyrocketing proves that it is a speculative currency which is too volatile for use.

Or it shows that the market still hasn't figured out a reasonable price for it.

> It could literally drop to zero tomorrow if something happened to it (like a major country making it illegal, for example).

There are use cases for it in the illegal markets that keep it from dropping to zero IMO (holding files for ransom, moving capital out of china, buying illegal goods etc), a major fall in price is possible though.
Another way to look at it is that the current notation system isn't the best overall, it's just the most tolerable trade-off between a bunch of mutually-incompatible requirements.

Replacing standard notation for all uses may be doomed to failure, but replacing standard notation for some particular use case (especially new use cases that weren't anticipated when standard notation settled into its current form) may be a very useful thing to do.

Computers also give us a few new options, such as displaying notation in a time-varying form, or using three dimensions, or notating the music in some universal language that isn't necessarily easy to read but that can be easily rendered in any desired notation.

Lattice notation for instance is something I really like, but I don't know how to represent it without some kind of animation.

Here's an example I stumbled across on Youtube awhile back of the kind of thing I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA1C9VFqJKo

Lattices generalize to higher dimensions, which means they might be amenable to virtual reality or even some sort of human-brain interface that allows you to experience 4 or 5 spacial dimensions at the same time.
The pro-regulation Obama led SEC rejected it, the Trump anti-regulation one may not.
I'm a nomad & hoarder on Google Play Music, and I find it's fairly well-suited to my habits. I have a large library of songs I like, and when I'm in the mood to discover something new I'll

a) Pick an artist and listen to "<Artist> Radio", which will quickly compile a playlist of music by and similar to that artist.

b) Sample some "Stations", which are usually themed around a genre, mood, or activity.

As I'm listening to the above, I'll Thumbs Up songs I like, which adds them to my library for more frequent listening later, and helps me to "bookmark" a new artist to browse the rest of their songs later if I want.
>If I buy a loaf of bread for $1 now, I should be able to buy a loaf of bread for $1, 10 years from now.

I'm no economist, but can't it be argued that moderate inflation is a good thing? The reasoning, as I understand it, is that it maintains liquidity since the progressive loss of values nudges towards expenditure.

Inversely, massive deflation means you're "making money" just by saving it, ergo people would rather save than spend.

Again, I'm no economist, but assuming I'm not wrong in my understanding of inflation/deflation, I'm going to doubt the rest of your claims on the grounds that they smell like oversimplification.
I think you mean hangouts (as it was), which extended beyond the apple paywall onto PC desktops, mac desktops, linux desktops, chromebooks, android, and IOS. Too bad google can't get out of their own way and has started deprecating it with no replacement in site.
I live in Canada. Things vary. For sure triage is in place in ER like anywhere else. But I've sat in many an ER with my kids, my mother in law (cancer), and many friends and myself and honestly I've always felt their scheduling was fair considering the priorities and demand.

But right now I can see my family doctor with 1 day notice, most times same day, and they have someone on-call for phone 14 hours a day and on weekends. Mostly I can avoid ER and drop-in clinic visits completely.