skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That should be on the front page. Above the fold.
The *ACL conferences (major NLP venues) decided to allow presentations to be in Mandarin now; the rationale being that a lot of presentations were in such poor English already, might as well let half the audience be engaged.

It will take at least a few more years before submissions are allowed in Chinese: reviewers can't be assumed to know Chinese. The momentum is there though.
"Market cap" is the most-quoted vanity metric of the cryptocurrency market.

A more reasonable measure of the value of a cryptocurrency would be the following: if it were possible to create an infinite number of currency units, how much USD/EUR/etc. could be earned by selling everything into the market? In other words, the more reasonable metric is the sum of all (cryptocurrency) buy orders.

If we use the Bitcoin/USD market as an example, the four most liquid USD exchanges (using data from https://bitcoincharts.com) are --
in descending order -- Bitstamp, Coinbase, itBit, and Kraken.

The sum of all USD buy orders for these exchanges is $43 million (22583567.85[1], 9551529.73[2], 9310393.07[3], 1679397.01[4], respectively).

I'm not sure what this figure is for Ethereum, but my guess is that it's around 1% of that of Bitcoin -- whereas Ethereum's market cap is around 50% of Bitcoin's.

EDIT: On GDAX/Coinbase alone (https://www.gdax.com/trade/ETH-USD) it's possible to sell Ethers for over $12 million USD. So I guess I was wrong about the 1% figure. Although I believe $43MM USD for Bitcoin is an underestimate.

[1] https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/bitstampUSD_depth.html

[2] https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/coinbaseUSD_depth.html

[3] https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/itbitUSD_depth.html

[4] https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/krakenUSD_depth.html
Oh, the irony of discussing an all-powerful organization tracking your every movement... on Facebook.
What went wrong at British Airways?
Fair enough, but just to be clear my intention was not to debate either side as any more or less reasonable.
The article explains that its an active research area and that there are three methods for doing this, and the new approach the article describes is combining two of them. Perhaps the Dutch system is using another method?
For something simple you could just catch the error and write to your logs. If you're using something like Papertrail you can setup filters to watch for and alert you of specific events like API failure. It can notify you via email, Slack or other things. Then you can simply login to papertrail and review the logs, hopefully with messaging that includes why it failed so you can investigate.
"BA blames a power cut, but a corporate IT expert said it should not have caused "even a flicker of the lights" in the data-centre."

Isn't it obvious that there's a data problem? What else would be so disruptive? How can an organization with BA's resources allow such a huge failure point to persist?

It can't be just about the £££, they are going to lose millions on this. Are they really just high-stakes gamblers? What else have they gambled on? Aircraft maintenance?
I know paleo isn't an accurate term, but I am saying your dietary guidelines fall into what a lot of the "Paleo" talkers advise. Unprocessed meat and vegetables with carbs from sweet potatoes... Half the "Paleo for athletes" types articles advise even eating legumes.
Indeed, there's a new shiny framework every other week.
Can you give examples of what we've been missing in recent years? I count the Atlantic among only a few news publications that are worth a damn.
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•	Software administration of the LRZ RStudio Server

Qualifications:

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Yes but it's mostly funded by philanthropy and tax breaks.

Nobody does basic research thinking about a specific market issue
Details : company is http://REDstack.nl

RED -> Reverse ElectroDialysis
The issue with git isn't that it has warts or that it's not improving - it's that it's a cli tool with bad and confusing defaults. Because people use bash for programming, the cli interface is basically an API now. So we can't change it because it would break peoples bash ci/cd scripts. That's why git is bad for humans: because it's kept backwards compatible in order to be good for computers.

I keep arguing that the unix model of using the same api for human consumption as for scripting is broken. One needs to be concise and doesn't need to be backwards compatible (interactive use), the other needs to be descriptive and backwards compatible (sctipting use). Git wasn't designed in the 70's so could easily have avoided this.
You think it's eevil for people to generate their own power, because not everyone can do it?
The very technology of the spring winding is a McGuffin in the story.
Because VR still sucks, and even good VR still messes with sense of proportion. Easier for most just to handle the object. But for complex or impractical to print items, it is a fantastic idea used by most modern engineering companies.
Neural networks also need to balance exploration and exploitation. You will find it in the form of:

+ generalization / overfitting

+ cross-domain knowledge transfer

In a more embodied approach it is free energy minimization as advocated by Friston. Consider us divided by the world through a Markov blanket, or even better consider our actions and perceptions divided by one. How do we continuously surprise ourselves without getting mad?

A guy who would say it's the same thing is probably Polani with empowerment: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1863. The rational choice is to navigate to that location in state space where you have most decisions.

I think curiosity-based research is quite interesting from the perspective of rationality and creativity.
(Meh, why did the PC-squad downvote this? Geesh, grow up. It's okay to have fun with languages!)

As a Swede:

I also read it that way the first time.

The second time I read it as "avslutningsdike" (Swedish) or "finishing dyke" (English.) But after Googling the word it turns out afsluit is more like "tätning"/"isolation/termination".
A simple way to make diagrams in Markdown
And the Flintstones.
Plenty of industrial AI is using other methods as well, it's just not where most of the current hype is, so there's a kind of bait and switch where they lead with the DL and then if you look at the products and APIs they're actually deploying and selling, the workhorses are often some mixture of very classical stats methods (like logistic regression) and general-purpose non-NN ML algorithms (like gradient boosting). One common breakdown is that the general-purpose APIs use these general methods, and then there are separate NN-based APIs for a few specific kinds of problems like object recognition in images, where NNs give a big performance increase.

Especially true for companies in the data-science niche, since DL rarely gives you much of a win for tasks like data-mining SQL databases, or when you have only modest sized data sets, but nonetheless you still need to at least offer some kind of DL solution to be perceived as a state-of-the-art AI offering. (Like with the "big data" hype wave, many companies that think they have gigantic data sets don't.) These other methods are better understood though and not in a ton of flux, so there's no need for an acquihire frenzy to get that expertise.
Referring to the episode "Fifteen Million Merits". IMO it's one of the greatest dystopian works ever.
This is the first time I've seen you change a Show HN title. For my Show HNs I spend a lot of time thinking and coming up with a title that I can stand behind. I may be extreme but if I were the poster of whose Show HN you changed the title I would rather have the post removed.
That doesn't seem right - surely a modern animal farm yields more food per energy expended than a group of hunters?
Getting rid of 'QA' and why what we call things matters
Check out http://www.quantize.maths-fi.com/
The website is edited by some of the best mathematicians in numerical probability field.
I'm wondering how much "hacking" (e.g. use of undocumented functionality, modifying of existing code) is required to bolt this on an existing Haskell compiler.
you can pay obese people to lose weight, but you can't have something like that everywhere.
Yes, that way my code looks more like one entity than a mess of different things.

I can see why you are skeptical of it but once you've used it for a while it becomes second nature. And you can always mix if you want to. The thing is that you can choose how you want to do it. And there are extremely few cases where the casing actually makes the identifiers different (keeping it mind that the first character is type sensitive).
Skimic – a boring news app
An 1874 Type Catalog
gov can just keep finding new things to tax.
How not to sleep:

/this

I read this article 8 hours ago. Now I'm in bed, staring at this screen, typing this comment at 5 AM.
I think that's a bit unfair to Houdini. As others noted here, one of the main goals for Houdini is to make CSS cleanly extensible, so every time some cool new feature comes along you don't have to choose between a) waiting for it to be standardized and implemented in browsers and b) abandoning CSS entirely.

Of course, I agree with the rest of your points.
New York’s old public bath buildings still inspire
And the solution is to sleep with a CPAP? Could I just rent one and check if I wake up more rested? Does snoring correlate with sleep apnea?
That's pretty much how Template Haskell works, except it doesn't go through the lisp roundtrip.
Undocumented opcode in MsMpEng emulator can access internal emulator commands
Does anyone know if these Docker+Kontena type of things could be used for smaller scaled deployments?

I've always wondered if there's an easy way to deploy a Postgres server and a couple of application servers that would mostly take care of themselves. Upkeeping standard VPS servers is annoying with all kinds of setup/update SSH work. Of course you can buy a traditional hosting service from someone but those are usually restricted to PHP/Mysql. Or you can go with Heroku but then there's a whole lot of other restrictions. Then there's the full AWS route but that has a very costly database use/network transfer cost.

In my imagination I would want to set up a Docker script for Postgres, another Docker script for Nginx and my application, and then push them out to the internet and have them fend off for themselves. I'm really bad at figuring out what Kontena etc. does and if they can be used at all for something small like this, but there's some keywords that I like from the features page:

- Native support for databases

- Health checks/automatic restart

- Let's encrypt support (I can set these up with the docker script too but seems interesting)

- Zero-downtime rolling deploys (Not that interesting for me but I guess this could also mean that it is easy to update my application server?)

- Logging/monitoring (I guess most vps have this too)

- Automatic maintenance and security updates
I've heard most of the things you do suggested before, except for fermented foods - could you please elaborate on what is your reasoning behind that?
Wikistream: realtime editing activity on Wikipedia
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> I think this is a great example of how having multiple rendering engines is healthy for the web.

Yeah, it's too bad that Google's Chrome-first/Chrome-only approach to Web development these days is making that increasingly difficult to sustain.
What are best appmakers for building woocommerce native apps
I am looking for quick and easy way to develop for my clients.
Ask HN: How to come up with SaaS ideas?
Here in Germany libgen is not blocked.
London, Rome, Athens, Lisbon, Dublin, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Venice, the list goes on and on (with the last two historic capitals being right in the water, not even coastal; and while I'm aware that Venice is not a capital these days, theirs was a formidable empire)
Is woocommerce the best?
Is it?
Well, not really what I was saying. More like 'geography is history' ala 'character is destiny'.
Now that I am no longer a single employee business (again) I can admit that I ran Mark II of my company on my own doing everything without outsourcing (sales, customer support, development, sysops, UI/UX, website design, copywriting, manuals, SEO, advertising, accounting, etc) making much more than seven figures in profit for quite a few years.

It probably wasn’t the wisest idea to stay solo for so long, but the freedom of not having employees made me very reluctant to hire anyone again. The only reason I chose to hire is that the business' growth forced me make the decision to either turn away customers or hire staff. The people I have are great, but I do miss the days of doing everything myself without having to explain why something is important.
It's the same thing also for the newest CRISPR related papers, so I guess it's true generally for cutting edge research
These stats may be "scary", but they sure ain't surprising.

> The number of app store applications is down significantly in 2017, averaging only 500 per day since the turn of the year.

Well, duh. Everyone and their dog already has their own app, so of course the number of new applications goes down at some point. It's called market saturation. Look it up some time.

> ComScore data suggests that half of U.S. smartphone users download zero apps each month

Well, duh. At this point I've figured out the set of 5-10 apps that I actually use, so it's entirely realistic that I will go for another few months before installing the next app. I actually find it surprising that every second customer downloads a new app each month.

> If you Can get users to hit download, according to Flurry Analytics, only 36 percent of apps are retained after one month and only 11 percent for a year.

Well, duh. A lot of app downloads are for one-off usages, like "I need to scan this one QR code" or "I will use this Wifi analyzer to check which Wifi channels are overcrowded and choose the best channel for my router".

> Even worse, says Andrew Chen, the average app loses 77 percent of its daily mobile users (DAU) within the first three days, and 95 percent of apps aren’t used regularly after 90 days.

You can tell that something's very very wrong with the app industry when they consider it a bad thing that they can't get you addicted to their product.

EDIT: One more thing:

> [Pinterest] leveraged massive incoming traffic to their website and then used that as an opportunity to get users to download and install the app, a platform where in Pinterest’s case they could engage with the user even more deeply.

Why does every website ever want me to download and install their app, when the web is just as powerful an application platform for 90% of use cases? When they say "engage with the user even more deeply", the only two things that spring to my mind are annoying notifications and always-on tracking.
laowai = foreigner
That's amazing, and I think we would all love to be in the same position one day.

I would have to disagree with "that's a lot more valuable than a few more million dollars in the bank". Having a few million dollars in index funds (with some hedging) would also give you a Senior Developer salary, but would carry a lot less risk than running a software company. But I do understand what you're saying, and I certainly wouldn't complain if I had some passive income like that!
I bet you bank blocks the charge from coinbase because it's a foreign charge.
Apparently whole Heathrow airport, .. was shut down yesterday. United and Lufthansa has to cancel their flights there too. So it meant more passengers trying to get with other plans to neighbour countries.
I have an issue with all privacy norms in the country at the moment. I would want far more stringent norms in place.

I definitely relatively less issue with a private entity than a govt.

The Govt is in the business of making laws and exercising power over me. The business I can chose.

The govt in turn controls the laws which control the business.

If the Govt gives no care, then for sure - the business will not either.

Therefore, Govt control and behavior is paramount. Next is private.

The fact that the Govt controls these things without biometrics over multiple different databases is OK.

The fact that aadhar is

1) a biometric data base (and biometrics I decry in particular)

2) which is being used to unify all databases

3) including things which it is not supposed to,

4) with the architecture underlying Aadhar

5) while removing all options to opt out

6) For demonstrably false gains (the AP results, their false reduction in costs claims)

Are immediate and clear over step of Govt power over Citizen rights.

This over step creates the levers and mechanism for the Govt to influence and control citizens at a scale at which our laws and constitution are not designed to protect.

Even now - there is no law for privacy, and the govt has claimed that we have no ultimate right over our bodies, or that there is any right to privacy.

These are not FUD as you keep claiming, but fact.

Let me bold that for you -

The GOVERNMENT OF INDIA HAS SAID TO THE SUPREME COURT THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE A FINAL RIGHT TO YOUR BODY AND YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO PRIVACY.

These are fundamentally true - there is no framework for privacy in India.

I would like to see a framework which prevents companies from compiling surnanmes or caste information, or bundling address information and other such data into lists which can be used.

This data should fundamentally be blocked and broken up, without ability to be connected easily.

People who do create such lists should be worried, not resting easy.

> Oh, I think I do! Along with overwhelming majority of a billion

And Ancient Rome thought Lead vessels were the best vessels.

The fact is that a majority of Indians do not know what the constitution is, what their protections are, and do not have recourse to it.

However - when Indians do learn their rights, they value them and fight for them.

It is instead people like you - who sell their rights for cheap pennies, who are considered craven, and who they despise.

Do not go around attributing that billion+ to anything when you have no proof.

As it stands, more evidence of the utter failure of aadhar to achieve its ends keeps being brought up.

> That is for you to demonstrate, since it's your argument

I state that it is a matter of my right to privacy and trust in governance. I state it is so, and for evidence bring forward the Case of Aadhar and Privacy currently being studied by the Supreme Court of India.

The SC of India, is a far higher and learned body than you, and if they consider the case to be a matter of the right to Privacy, then it is so legally.

Now please, show me how Aadhdar is not about Rights and Trust.
MXNet implementation of Pix2Pix
How to Create Multiplayer Game in Go from Scratch
Very broad question.
Stairs on one side and something like a waterwheel on the other. Charge less than a gym and sell it as partially powering whatever local association/charity could do with a break.
Credit me when it's a thing heh
Interactive Bid Requests with Apache Druid
How to Avoid Multitasking and Be More Productive
> Isn't there still a correlation between status and size these days?

Yes. The wage gap between short men and huge men makes any perceived gender based wage gap between male and female look very, very puny.
...if this was the only condition for "what city becomes a capital." Looking at Germany, there's Hamburg, Köln, München...all on nice rivers, but none of them were the capital of Prussia when Germany was first unified - since Prussia was the essential driver of that political process, Berlin became the capital. Something of a coincidence in the grand scheme of things, really.
Wires can be more effective than tubes and pumps.
I'm sure their maintenance strictly follows aviation industry standards, i.e. government mandated minimums.
Mithril.js (https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js)

- only 8kb which should be more important to people

- no reinventing javascript in html

- can easily plug in flyd (or other) tiny stream libraries for reactive data

- small api surface area to learn before you can be productive (if you actually know javascript)
The more honest explanation here is that our industry is producing apps that are junk.

Everybody enjoyed downloading apps because they got a kick out of them. Now the industry is mostly pumping decaf.
Throwing that back at you: Don't conflate Java problems with static language problems...
Your Camera Wants to Kill the Keyboard
It's more like 'closing' (something). The afsluitdijk is a bridge/dike that can be closed in case of storms.
I just want to point out that for all intents and purposes, having millions of dollars is equivalent to owning a software company that brings in 6 figures of passive income. If you invested $4 million in index funds, you could safely withdraw $120k per year (3%, accounting for inflation).
How Icelandair Opened Up Air Travel in the 1950s
In that case my first guess was right after all. :)
"Why does every website ever want me to download and install their app, when the web is just as powerful an application platform for 90% of use cases?"

Yeah, that's annoying as hell. It's like an old "best viewed with IE" all over again. A wast regression from functional and vendor neutral web.
>The IDE should do that for you.

Fail. IDE dependence is an anti-pattern and a programmer-smell.
Proceeding along this train of thought, they've already made a TV show episode out of it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
I'd guess "about half." The rest might be uninhabited and open to settlement (e.g. North Dakota)...but the commute might be sort of long ;)
My "One Simple Trick" to help limit active thinking when in bed, and thus make it easier to sleep is to write the thoughts down, pen on paper.

By thinking I mean things like being excited about an event, going over a conversation, thinking about some code, an idea, things to do tomorrow, errands etc. All things that can be literally dumped onto paper and stored. In my experience I have found that pen and paper work better than typing into a device.

Now, I still seem to wake up multiple times during the night, but it's not because my brain is excited anymore.