skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, in order to have something stored in the blockchain, you have to make a transaction, which incurs costs. However, reading the blockchain is free (once you exclude network traffic costs and electricity).

This is an overview of how blockstack works: https://blockstack.org/docs/how-blockstack-works

This is a description regarding the transaction fees on the bitcoin blockchain: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees

Here are some real time stats regarding the costs/byte of info to be stored in the blockchain (in satoshis - 1 USD is approx 45k satoshis at today's BTC price)
I can't help but assume Zuckerberg's motive for supporting this has nothing to do with helping society, and everything to do with helping himself and his future campaign (and distracting people from Facebook's role in Trump's election).
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The requirements, hopes and dreams was probably bigger then one document per second.
The thought terrifies me.
Who cares what his motive is?
It is perfectly clear to me, in the very link you have posted:

"This 2-year guarantee is your minimum right. National rules in your country may give you extra protection: however, any deviation from EU rules must always be in the consumer's best interest." (which is the case of UK law).
> because the tools it uses are, objectively, better.

Bullshit. Python is often used for early exploration but the people doing serious work in ML almost always end up using C++, Java or Scala.

> you're dismissing them for decidedly stupid reasons

So having relatively poor tooling, poor package management, poor performance and bad concurrency support aren't good reasons for dismissing a language? Go and Python aren't even particularly well designed languages. That's far more than you've given for dismissing Java and claiming that alternatives are "vastly better for a typical startup."
That's ridiculous. He'd be more accountable in office than he is as CEO of the world's largest country. I mean, be skeptical of it by all means but banning people from running is just foolish.
I got to attend a "naked party" back in college.

Sure, you spend the first 30 seconds gawking, but you quickly get over it and realize being naked isn't inherently sexual
Hey, not the GP, but just glancing through the quiz - Question 3 focuses on the fact that Python passes things by reference to functions. This is definitely specific to the two languages you guys use (as is your prerogative), but if you're expanding this for others, you should definitely explain that these focus on the JS and Python languages.
<<rant>>
I am looking to buy a New TV now... Attempting to find a non-smart TV is very hard, not impossible but there are very few options...

I bought my last TV in 2004, I want my next TV to last atleast 1/2 the time my Current TV has. There is no way the Embedded PC will continue to support all the new Applications and services in 6-10 years, I would be shocked if most of the smart TV functionality is dead in less than 2 years after purchase or if it does get updated it will run so poorly it will be nearly non-functional

I just want a Display I plug things into, I have FireTV's Roku's and rPI's to provide the smarts...

<<end rant>>
Data as a mass noun, while less traditional, is still valid.
Alexa, don't talk to strangers
I've had a couple since the original Surface RT and I have a tough time with it. I really don't use the device anymore because balancing it on my lap became really annoying. It's fantastic on a table though.
It's not a difficult idea. Mindfulness of how you are spending your time is quite useful.

What results from it is, however, difficult. Nearly without fail I have seen these tracking systems degenerate into blaming, micro-management and tools for destruction ("Figby is working two hours a day more than you are, what's up?")

So no, not difficult at all. Easy to do. Much, much harder unless you want a culture of fear and overwork in your company, and screw that, I've been there.
> [...] and refrained from considering the enormity of their undertaking

Sigh. Another perfectly good word dies due to being too similar to another word.

At least we're still adding new words to the language to make up for these losses in expressiveness and shades of meaning. "Bigly", "sexting". "Cromulent".
My advice is to learn to enjoy the ride and let the company worry about its own business. Alienating people just to make a point does not end up at a happy place. I've learned this only after long years of getting beat up before finally deciding to accept the lesson.
> “If you love Type-C, it means you love dongles,” jokes Panay. “We’re giving a dongle to people who love dongles.”

And of course I would prefer to have a magnetic charging connector over USB-C all day. Makes even more sense if your USB-C is from this very same connector.
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There are a couple of issues that this article misses :
a) Why is the rent in Toronto going through the roof ? If people were merely flipping houses, why would they bother with renters ? In Vancouver, the rents in condos were very low. In Toronto, the rents are high and increasing .
b) The author mentions Brampton as relatively unaffected due to south asian diaspora concentration. However, Mississauga has similar concentration of South Asians and the housing market has seen a similar appreciation in prices.

Is it possible that people find Toronto to be a great city and want to move here ? I know of several families that moved out of mcmansions in Brampton because schools in Toronto are so much better ? Ordinary citizens may be parking their money in Toronto real estate because they may be unsure of the future value of their stock investments.
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yeah not saying he's going to sink, saying he's not going to be able to call for help after he pukes all over the radio and the flare washes out of his hand while he's getting tossed.
>brain is still developing until 25 years

Careful, "developing" is very much a weasel word in these contexts. Brains are "developing" until death. That's very much their purpose: to change as a function of input.

Also, "punishment" is a bit of a weasel word in this context. It's quite clear that some form of punishment is instrumental in the proper development of the brain, especially with regards to social norm. This holds even with people in the depths of despair.

The issue is about whether we're actually punishing in a constructive way, and whether we're simultaneously extending a helping hand.
Microsoft stores 200 MB in DNA
"Cloud service" supporting it will probably not last for long.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/02/28/the-futu... there's also this post by Matthew Green (which has been submitted before to HN but hasn't gotten comments)
Tongue prints work fine on typical phone fingerprint readers, so it is an option.
Yes, the prevalence of studies that report averages are what you are referencing--though you don't provide any. But, there are plenty of anecdotes (e.g. the several Google Sheets pay experiments folks have run) showing disparity. I am a sample of one, but I have seen this disparity--and, worked to fix it--with folks I've managed over the years as well. So, I do not agree with absolutes like "that is not the case."
they didn't say syntax, they said Python idiosyncrasies. Knowing move/copy rules in python counts as that. It's something that isn't intuitive unless you know python, ex: the matrix question. An experienced dev who isn't a python person would pick the intuitive choice, see the matrix is malformed, then Google how to clone objects in python.
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One thing you miss if you only interact with "true" friends is a diversity of opinion. People online often complain about that crazy uncle who posts birther nonsense, but it is important to keep in mind that those people exist and if you want to know them you have to understand where they are coming from. If you don't, they will blindside you when you meet them or people like them in real life.

It's too easy these days to construct echo chambers to live in and discover only too late that you have drifted out into the fringes without ever realizing it.

This is one of the most surprising things about the Internet IMHO. I had thought for a long time that all of the conversation online would bring people together in shared understanding. Now I realize that it has more effectively allowed people to segregate themselves into like minded groups. In the old days there was only one or two big news stations and maybe a couple of local papers where people got their news and opinions. Sometimes the newsmen would say things that conflicted with your worldview and maybe on a rare occasion make you reconsider. Now you can customize the message to only ever hear what you want.

Social media can fight this a bit, if only because you don't get to choose your family and people notice if you selectively ignore them.
CNet! So beautiful! Best BBS system I ever came around! I even had it installed on my system to be able to develop ARexx doors, just for fun and learning.
Pentagon Mapmakers Want to Tap Mobile Ad Technology
As a Pokemon Go player, I picked up an Anker battery pack because of the Ingress player reviews. It works really well, I can fully charge my Pixel XL 3-4 times before it's empty.
Lessons from the Cloud Builders
on desktop, i definitely feel you.
Not hotdog.
Finding Stack Overflow code snippets in GitHub projects
It's not supply. It's speculation.

>From 2000 to 2010, the population of New York increased by 2.1 percent while the US Census reported that the number of occupied housing units increased by more than twice that amount, 5.3 percent. . . . If we could build our way out of our affordability crisis, the ratio of housing costs to income should have gone down during this period. However, average rents and the share of income spent on rent both increased well above inflation over the same period. [0]

[0] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/new-york-housing-gentrifi...
They should be safe given that, um, race is not a scientific concept and has no genetic substrate.
Could be a scanning back.. but they also don't seem to have a shutter cable attached :)
[disregard this: I jumped the gun]
It isn't necessarily required to plant trees back. It depends on the type of management and cutting being done.

One strategy is to remove the highest value trees from time to time, as they tend to be larger and removing them creates space for smaller trees to grow larger. Such harvests will also remove smaller trees that are unlikely to increase in value (often sold as paper pulp or wood chips, not necessarily discarded). This creates space for new trees to grow.

At the extreme you do have companies cutting down everything and using herbicide cocktails to prepare the ground for planting.
> Too big for Excel is not "Big Data"

This. Should be sold as posters with pre-printed "Happy birthday mr manager".
Not the OP, but I had a similar deal with a Lenovo P50 during their black Friday sale, 1k USD for 15" quad core i7, discrete graphics, and 256 SSD. I've never seen the OPs price point except for vendors like Sager.
bluetooth? wifi? the future is wireless (hopefully, imo)
> The political concerns extend beyond the company's own internals. They must appear enterprisey if they expect to be treated enterprisey. Today, enterprises have "data science" departments and blow $100k/mo on useless crap. If they're not doing that, it's a liability for the whole company, not just from the petty territorial perspective of one individual. It doesn't matter that it's possible to accomplish the same thing with one one-hundredth of the monthly expense. The enterprise signaling is worth the cost.

This is a great opportunity to sell $400/mo. enterprise solutions for $100k/mo.
On the other hand, how many languages do you know where arrays are passed by value?
> A tasty, energy-packed paste made from peanuts, oil, sugar, milk powder and vitamin and mineral supplements

What do they do about peanut allergies? If they are so common and dangerous (as witnessed by many US schools banning peanut products) why doesn't this food use an alternative protein source?
Support the decentralized internet by using the products of a company currently trying to centralize the internet!
The range of the exponent. Stochastic rounding is intended to prevent bias towards zeroes which paralyze learning, but with floating point this is less of an issue since you only round the mantissa.
> IE; IntelliJ IDE, browser, mail client

I run all of that on a 8 GB machine, it works perfectly.
It's interesting that's the connotation that was brought to mind for you. In the context of this thread, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are the definition of enterprise infrastructure. Google laid the ground work for much of the enterprise big data infrastructure. They've also developed buzz worthy software such as kubernetes, and spanner. Facebook and Google both are known for big data machine learning. Amazon brought the cloud to the mainstream, and offer many popular big data services through AWS. In general, there are few companies in the world who operate near the scale, with the reliability of these giants.

I think you're conflating enterprise with old and stuffy, and non-enterprise with bright colors and cutting edge technology. When I think of enterprise I think of software that needs to operate at scale with strict requirements on performance and uptime.

Apple loses a lot of the talent to other companies, and has never really been known having strong technology, so I understand that.
Your comment contains a lot of appeals to emotion and very few facts, if any at all (for example, the claim that the "vast majority" of rape accusations is true definitely needs a source). This is the hallmark of someone who goes along with mainstream opinion without thinking for themselves. I urge you and everyone else to think deeply before reiterating what you have heard or read from others.
I have a Dell XPS 15 9560 with the TB16 dock. I had tried a couple (Kensington, etc), and had issues (like, buried waaaaay down in the Kensington fine print was the fact that if you had a 4K display, the USB3 ports would "downshift" to USB2, and the GigE port would go to 100mbps...)

The TB16 dock is great though, works seamlessly and smoothly with 4K displays, GigE, supports Power Delivery and remote 'wake' (there's a power button on the dock that if the laptop is sleeping will wake it).
> The idea, however, was not to require any python-specific knowledge

But the quiz specifically mentions on multiple answers that "In Python, unlike language X, Y, Z" OR "In Python, like [similar language] A, B, C"...I mean this says nothing about my programming ability, this says whether I know the quirks of the language in the same way that I can tell you all the quirks of JavaScript but not in Python. This to me is not a programming quiz, but a Python quiz designed to determine how much someone knows about what can go wrong in Python.
I do, in case you missed that.

I don't think we should be giving people credit for PR "philanthropy".
I like Cato because while they're libertarian they're also sincere, ie they also stand up and take lumps for an open-borders immigration policy and call out institutional racism and so on.

Most libertarian sites and writers, though, just offer anti-government claptrap on top of some shallow tropes of rugged individualism. If you want to find out how serious a libertarian is, make them tell you how they'd deal with the problem of crime, using real-world examples of vulnerable people and populations.

I'm in favor of governance that maximises liberty, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence. People who say they want to abolish government are either living in a fantasy world or aim to set up an autocratic government of their own, sometimes both.
Sense-ible Redux Thunk
good lord, why did they need a cluster with 30TB when all they had was 2TB? you could downsize that cluster by a factor of 10x.
You can stay for 12 months no matter what owner says.
I would recommend Python 3 for sure. I just use the installers from https://www.python.org/ and don't tend to have any problems.

I prefer lightweight tools, so I use Visual Studio Code. It won't hold your hand, but neither will it get in your way.

When working on projects, get in the habit of using virtualenvs. It's a small amount of overhead, but will save you a ton of frustration in the long run. A primer on windows:

From project directory, initialize it:

> python -m venv .env

(I put my virtualenvs in .env out of habit. Virtualenvwrapper, itself a useful addition for managing virtualenvs, puts them in your home directory, which can be fine too.)

Activate it:

> .env\Scripts\activate.bat

Use "pip" to install your dependencies. Also use "pip freeze" to record those dependencies for installations elsewhere. I'm currently following this for dependency management: https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/a-better-pip-workflow
> an entirely new way of thinking about selling your product or service

> here's my wonderful life with this product, don't you want it (the life) to be yours?

What, seriously...? That concept definitely- at least- pre-dates the invention of search engines. I could probably dig up a relevant 90-year old essay by Edward Bernays if I cared to take the time.
For datasets maxing out at 2Gb you can try www.CSVExplorer.com . It might be a good way to give your clients access to their data.

Disclaimer: I built CSV Explorer.
Yeah, I've seen this too.

"No one but the customer is even going to know this machine exists, so why would anyone try to access it?" levels of ignorance are the cause of most of the IoT security issues we face today.
Wouldn't that be a great way to implement a form of UBI all over the world? Just have all these non-profits,government and people advocating UBI sponsor these food packs and distribute it to every child in the world that needs it. Quickly and fairly cheaply get rid of child hunger and malnutrition and move to a next problem.

It costs about $0.30 per packet.There are about 1bln children in the world under the age of 15. It would cost 300mln/day to give every child this little life saver. It would cost 109bln to feed all kids in the world. Because of the volume I think it is safe to assume that we could lower the price to half of that. Since not every kid needs it,the real cost would probably be closer to 25bln$/year..
That sounds plausible. I've never needed support off the continent.
Not really, if they replaced either mini-DP or the surface charging port.

I have a 4k monitor with a USB hub and it connects via USB-C. So I can just plug in one cable for power, video, keyboard and mouse. On the surface that means three cables coming out of both sides of the thing, and one of the cables going to a USB hub since there is only one USB port. But I guess you could use the dongle, assuming it supports HDMI output.

That monitor is 2 years old now, I bought it with my 2015 macbook.
I tried a bluetooth headset but it had enough extra latency to throw me off (I play rhythm games sometimes). In theory my wifi's fast enough for copying data to/from my phone, but I don't think it offers an easy way to do that (and my camera doesn't have wifi at all).
How easy/hard is it to manage? Does it conflict with Yum?
There are great many explorations on a decentralized protocols (this, Zeronet, IPFS, urbit) but I don't see many infrastructure related projects that we can play with today. Anyone can knows of hardware stack that enables fault-tolerant meshnets?
In a world you can buy a 24 TB RAM 8-socket 192-core 384-thread box able to hold 20 2.5" devices and a mix of 16 devices picked from NVMe storage, GPUs or other coprocessors (giving you up to 16 coprocessor hosts, each with 72 x86 cores, giving you 2304 threads and 256 GB of RAM), the odds of you actually having big data (as in "intractable from a single box") are remarkably small.
Good point. I think that objects are passed by reference in a high enough % of language in common use (PHP and C++ are the two exceptions I can think of) that this is a fair question. But if enough people think it's bad, we'll remove it.
Show HN: Bloom Filter JS
You might be right that the person was not innocent.

No, you do not give the accuser (and in this case, the company firing someone from their job) the 'benefit of the doubt' in my world.

Either it's a clear cut case (fine) or it's not (if you fire someone in this case, you're an asshole working for a shitty company).

Now, I'm not saying that Google DID this. But the defendant should have the benefit of the doubt.
You guys might want to learn what FIPS-140 actually specifies before deciding it's part of a nefarious plot.

> In many other countries, it might gain lots of traction.

Maybe, with a handful of techno-anarchists impotently shaking their fist at any US originated standard. But 'other' governments and enterprises routinely spec FIPS-140 compliance. For example, in the EU, CWA-14167 is the equivalent standard, but even ENISA acknowledges that FIPS-140 is equivalent, more widely adopted and is a perfectly acceptable alternative.
"For further information please contact the seller"

It is kind of cheeky, since in most cases for Apple products, the seller is also Apple.
Show HN: Sed-based YouTube dl
test $# = 1||
exec echo usage: $0 itag-no

sed -n '
s/http:/https:/;
s/m.youtube/www.youtube/;
s/youtu.be/youtube/;
s/embed./watch?v=/;
#etc.;
s/;.*//;
w.'"$0"''
read a < .$0;
rm .$0;

n=0;while true;do
curl -so .$0a $a;
unset a;
# is tr needed probably not
tr -cd '\12\40-\176' < .$0a \
|exec sed '
s/https%3A/\
&/g;
s/ *//;
/https%3A%2F%2F/!d;

s/%3A/:/g;
s/%2C/,/g;
s/%2F/\//g;
s/%3D/=/g;
s/%3B/;/g;
s/%3F/?/g;
s/%26/\&/g;
s/\\u0026/\&/g;
s/%252C/,/g;
s/%252F/\//g;
s/%22/\"/g;
s/%255B/[/g;
s/%255D/]/g;

' \
|exec sed '
/itag='"$1"'/!d;
#change if dont want mp4
/video.mp4/!d;
#change if want webm
/webm/d;
/ytplayer/d;
s/;+codecs.*//;
/timedtext/d;
' > .$0b;
rm .$0a;

read b < .$0b;
rm .$0b;
test ${#b} = 0||break
#number of retries default is 10
test $n -le 9||exit
n=$((n+1));
done

exec curl -o 1.mp4 $b
#unset b
Iron.io acquired by Xenon; founders join Oracle
That's not what this article is about.
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You're presenting a dichotomy. Alienate superiors by communicating erratically or without solutions; or be a willing accomplice to incompetence and fraud.
No, of course not. Your implication that this knowledge of genetics could somehow help allocate resources provides a very clear example of my concern. While you may be thoughtful and evenhanded, many people in power are thoughtless and greedy. Others still are racist and sexist.
jesus.. it's like bad investment keeps demanding more investment.. all waiting to blow over.
> Actually they have it right at the beginning. Hens don't know if an egg is fertilized or not.

I hate to nitpick you here, but the person you're replying to is correct, and it's really not at the beginning of the article. Like you reiterate, the article states that the hen doesn't know — which is sensible (how would the hen know?), but doesn't answer our question: "What does a hen do with her unfertilized eggs?"

The article does answer the question for the case of a non-brooding hen: the hen doesn't brood, so not much of anything. But I think a lot of us were more interested in the case of a brooding hen, and the article then tells us about the process for a fertilized egg, which, while interesting, doesn't answer the question.

(I would guess that most of us that were raised in more urban areas believe that most or all hens brood. I did not know that some did and some didn't, for example.)

You, and other commenters in the thread, have thankfully given us closure w.r.t. the question by posting, though.