skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the conclusion most folks are going to draw, yes. I'll take the heat for it. Very occasionally, it spawns interesting discussions whose contours look a lot like those of the article, and I think that's great.

The point is far more likely to be lost if I simply straight-up tell them the perceived problem in an "unpretentious" way. A lot of startup bros work quite simply; they may call you a pretentious prick, but they're more likely to respond to challenge to their egos by way of riddle—even if delivered in the dumpster fire form, i.e. a joke that their FOMO makes them anxious about not being in on—than sincere entreatments to ponder the uselessness of another multiplatform ad analytics play. I've given up on the latter.
>Plus, these experiences were shitty for the user but they must have worked

I spent years as a data scientist in the online display advertising space, and I was shocked at how much of a disconnect there was between advertiser ROI and clicks/impressions/whatever metric is being sold to the advertiser. There are very few parties whose best interests involved clearing up that connection. I heard one story of an ad executive getting fired for introducing A/B testing to their advertisers and proving the negative ROI.

Big flashy ads certainly improve clicks, but it's not clear if they make a customer want to buy a product.
Tip jars. Support the content you value without having to deal with ads.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/search?q=Tip+jar
I think you are wrong. Think coding as in talking with technology, think technology as a kind of species. Sure my dad wont be able to program a new plumber but he will be better able to take advantage of many of the benefits technology offers.
I'm not saying it wasn't true. I'm saying it was an empty gesture that was meant to meant to pacify the media and was successful in doing so.
> The logic would need to have been put in years before it activates.

But we HAD years to do this. Why didn't we do it?
He might have been better off laundering it.
Those crashes hapoen every 40-70 years. Deleveraging is the term you are looking for
> Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it?

I personally still spend plenty of time reading stuff on the site, both educational (r/askhistorians, various programming subreddits) and entertainment (r/popular). I'll definitely tend to avoid the more meta subreddits when not in a work mood though.

> Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?

Oh yeah, it definitely happens: heads down in code, doing a complex series of deploys, or just in a bunch of meetings.

There's also the times where I go to check on the site to check on something I deployed and instead get distracted by something on the front page and forget what I was doing. Oops.
This reminds me of those blinky goggles that made you see a bunch of trippy patterns (even though the blinkiness was completely diffuse!), here's the instructions (http://wealoneonearth.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-build-gogg...) and here's a proper scientific paper about this phenomenon: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou... .

The interesting thing is that the patterns that recur (known as "form constants, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant ) in these geometric visual hallucinations are pretty similar to those obtained by taking hallucinogenic drugs (like LSD). As one might expect, these "form constants" don't directly originate from the flickering light nor the LSD molecule -- there's certainly no way to encode a description of those swirling geometric patterns in a small molecule or in diffuse light -- the information for those hallucinations has to reside in the brain somehow. Fascinatingly enough, these trippy geometric hallucinations are generated by the exact same brain structures and mechanisms that the visual system uses to process edges/contours, surfaces, and textures: http://www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/publications/01-3.pdf ! Certain operational modes (that LSD or diffuse flickering light can help create) in the edge/contour/surface/texture-detection machinery -- once transformed to the visual field's coordinates -- look exactly like the form constants. These geometric visual hallucinations -- the imagery fed to a conscious mind whose visual system is temporarily malfunctioning -- have a deep correspondence with the normal mechanisms of vision, in much the same way that the "glitches" produced by feeding a H.264 decoder with a slightly corrupt video file let you immediately appreciate the motion-compensating machinery of the codec.

There is sublime beauty in seeing these "form constants" in images that look like geometric visual hallucinations appear in machine learning research. The universal adversarial perturbations (which, when added to an image, are said to cause misclassification) in page 6 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.08401v1.pdf were striking to see, as they strongly resemble the same beautiful swirly colourful geometric visual hallucinations that humans experience when taking a hallucinogenic drug (or staring at diffuse flickery lights with the hallucination goggles).
obviously.
Hacker News now has the ability to hide stories. This should be the default reaction to stories which one simply doesn't want to engage with, but which are not obviously egregious, rather than flagging them. It also hides comments from those stories.
What is missing from this picture is that whoever wants to send you bitcoins needs to get them. This is still a huge barrier especially with having no idea what your bitcoins are actually worth and also it's a given that your wallet will be stolen sooner or later so you want to buy only a little at a time but that has overhead so...

As for transferring money, Transferwise is leagues ahead in usability when you consider that the sender has some sort of currency and the receiver wants currency (and bitcoin is not a currency, no matter how hard these Ayn Rand types insist, not without a nation state backing it). All you need is a name and an account number and the UI is super friendly and the transfer is cheap.
I wrote it myself. One of my key features has always been that everything is streaming (unless it's algorithmically impossible, like Sort), and I couldn't find any Mac charting widget that supported streaming input.

That's why its feature set is rather minimalist. I'm not opposed to using a third-party charting library, if there's a good one that supports what I need, but at the time I wrote that, there wasn't.
If you handle other people’s sarcasm, cynicism, sardonicism, nihilism, ... by eliminating interaction with them, you’ll miss out on hanging out with some truly hilarious and insightful people throughout your life. YMMV.
US approves social media background checks for visa applicants
May I also ask if you have any more books on embedded devices or IoT devices not specific to just Bluetooth. I'm worked on a research project I led last summer where I fist learned about software and hardware development for small embedded devices like microcontrollers and this year I'm working on another research project using the same technology. I feel as if I understand the technology but am not proficient with it at all. If you have any other resources let me know.
> surely you can't actually believe that

Not the grandparent poster, but I would have preferred if you'd either ommitted this part or provided some justification for why you feel it isn't a ~~public~~ non-rivalrous good.
Prostitution, that's how
I think you are thinking about programming too litterally. Its more a question of learning to "think in technology" i.e. to at least be able to take advantage of technology.
Last time you listed symbols that were missing dsacco showed that they were not. Why should we believe these?
Javascript strings are UTF-16 (or maybe it was UCS-2?)
Pix2pix on a face dataset
How does one currency peg its self to another?
The workaround functions by opening the privileged socket and re-executing the binary as an unprivileged user with access to the filehandle. Any background goroutines would exit with the privileged parent.

Also: please don't spawn goroutines during init(). There's generally a better time and place, and in the event that you justifiably need a package-level background routine you can spawn it on demand with a sync.Once.
I agree that this is an argument against unions, but only to the extent that it is also an argument against companies. Swap union/company and employee/employer in your argument and it remains just as valid.
Each of those higher abstractions the brain is processing us because the neocort3x is a filtered hierarchy that communicates up and down at each layer. The result of the lower levels trigger and input into the level above it. The higher levels project an expectation of the next result to the layer below themselves. While the lowest level might be concerned with identifying edges of lines, the layer above it is identifying letters and above that words, sentences, concepts, meaning, how that is similar to other things, etc. Each of these layers is active at a moment in time, but the communcation interface between each layer is a sparse distributed representation.
Riemann Abacus
I agree with you, but can you talk more about this? Is there an article or some other resource that talks more about this topic?
Neither is worth anything if we as a society kill the planet we call home so this isn't about race or worth. It is about us as a planet deciding to keep our planet healthy. Like I said, just because one country does it doesn't make it right for others. The others should be scolding the US not following in their naive ignorant foot steps.
As a current Missouri resident - I am getting the heck out of here.
That's all fine as far as it goes; I enjoy such discussions myself, as the opportunity presents. What I don't do, though, is act like a smartass for the sake of acting like a smartass. It's not funny and it's not clever; it's an annoying waste of time for all involved.

You can be the smartest person in the room, and if you're as smart as you think you are, everyone else in the room will love you for it. Acting like you're sure you're the smartest person in the room is a great way to make everyone else in the room hate you. Which do you think you're doing, when you act like you laid out above?
As an employee, the union is an organization you belong to which works to further your interests, and the company is an outside organization in a hopefully symbiotic relationship, where you provide them with things they want, and they provide you with things you want.

As an employer, the company is an organization you belong to which works to further your interests, and the union is an outside organization in a hopefully symbiotic relationship, where you provide them with things they want, and they provide you with things you want.

I am not saying that an employee has the same relationship with their union and their company. I'm saying that when you break it down into employee/employer and company/union, it becomes fairly symmetrical. Look at the individuals on both sides, and then at the organizations on both sides. If one side shouldn't band together, why should the other side do so?
Especially the non Web bits.
So do silvers (well, rush a site).
the value of the length field must also be expressed in base-1. also, the total length reported by the 'message length' header must included the space taken by the header itself as well.
Trading is a zero sum game. You are making nothing. You win, someone else loses.
Before you run away with your paranoid hat on, think about it the other way around: voters want something done about organized crime, and politicians look for the easy wins. Since large untraceable cash transactions are almost always criminal in nature, it makes sense to lower the weight of evidence required to seize unusually large amounts of cash.

And frankly, I'm fairly comfortable with that. It'll never affect me, because I don't deal in large cash transactions, and I can't imagine any world in which I would. The largest would be buying a second-hand vehicle privately, but I wouldn't spend 10k on a private purchase - the mugging risk is too high.

Yes, poor saps do get caught up, especially if they're doing something like collecting money for charity - small numbers add up. They're ought to be easy ways of appealing the decision for legitimate reasons.

I don't really buy the slippery slope argument either. I think the limit will be quickly raised once it's obviously too low.
The idea is that capitalism will lead, inexorably, to fewer big companies and fewer people who control those companies. Those fewer companies and people will have more and more power, the people at the other end of the spectrum (e.g. unskilled workers) will have less and less power, over time.

Wall-Mart has a lot of power; its workers almost none. In fact most of its workers are kept part-time so that they don't have benefits and more than half of the full-time hourly make less than $25,000/year[1]. Remember that almost 60% of Americans don't have $500 in savings. These people are often terrified of losing their job.

The notion of using workers to make deliveries is representative of late stage capitalism in that at first it sounds like Wall-Mart is letting its employees "hustle" for a bit more money, but instead it's really putting itself in the situation where it can leverage its employee's circumstances. Note that, even in this proof-of-concept stage, the risks and insurance costs are already passed to the workers[3].

Please note that I don't think Wall-Mart as a company is particularly evil or would ever try to not pay its workers for this service -- on the contrary, they will certainly, always compensate. My concern is that that compensation will not cover the costs when all variables are factored in and that while it might start as voluntary, if it's indeed profitable, that would start to be pushed toward a work culture pressure of, "Do you want to keep your job? Deliver this at a net loss to you."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-23/more-than...
[2] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/walmart-begins-testing-usi...
Quantum Supremacy [AUDIO]
The desktop web is still a horrible experience, especially on slow connections or slow computers. Turn off adblock, open the inspector and you'll see ads consuming >90% of bandwidth, memory and CPU, even on mainstream sites. It really is an absurd situation.
There is no single MLS, so basically they have to get data from the various services located in any given market.

They typically paid for that access though I do know they were cut out of the Milwaukee one a while back.

I think they were scraping data at one point (but I could be entirely off-base there) At the end of the day, they are combing through public records, past sales from MLS and in many cases retyped/copied and pasted by the real estate agent.
"Non Implant", "Dental"... should be in the tittle. In saying that, pretty cool. I'd love to see consumers be able to do this.
appear superficially like human reasoning

Exactly.

Anyone who wants to see the perfect example of this should watch Watson totally blow the Final Jeopardy question by not understanding what is the meaning of "U.S. cities". http://techland.time.com/2011/02/16/why-did-watson-think-tor...

Watson is a fabulous tool, but it's nothing like "the kind of cognition that humans or animals do".
^ Sarcasm.
> These shortcomings are expected to be fixed in Base65538.

I fricking love qntm.
And what % of capital is available to entrepreneurs tackling those problems?
New suckers. Also a zero sum game doesn't mean one side always winning.
Good call, But pricey than the alternative, which is to not cut a pattern at all, or to cut a unique pattern. Also, at this kind of scale, people easily balk at a reasonable sum; if it costs, say, $100 to waterjet one 4'x8' sheet, then a facade at 20'x40' on 4 sides of a building is all of a sudden a $320k budget.
I get it too. We have to break the loop somehow.
38 characters of ASCII gibberish (all 95 printable characters) gives you less than 2^256 possible passwords, and pretty much nobody uses a password with more entropy than that.
I dunno. Haven't thought about it that deeply. If they can think up Twitter Emoticons for Dogs without having to intellectually complete the puzzle of social purpose, I can stop short of thinking through all the issues on my side, too.

What I do know is that wisecracks seem to have more provocative potency in our day than commonsensical, plainspoken talk. The latter is easily deflected by hipster shields, as described more fully here:

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live...

TL;DR avoiding committal engagement with serious ideas and issues is pretty much table stakes among the Millennial version of MBA frat boys. That's not how you get to them.

I've talked more than one of them out of stupid business plans by making fun of them. That's closer to their language. It sometimes works.
Regarding how awesome Bitcoin must be, can I just take a moment to point out that only half the reason crap like randomware exists (and hits places like hospitals, etc.) is suboptimal security. The other half is untraceable digital payments. Food for thought.
Thank you for posting this! I have a tooth I need extracted due to a fracture from stress, and have dreaded getting the screw implant in my lower jaw. Science to the rescue!
Are you on an iPhone 6+ or 7+? If so, a new build is being reviewed by Apple.
Most people care deeply about their family members and close friends. Caring about doing a good job is normal, but caring deeply about your clients is weird... Either way, what kind of research have you done to know about most realtors?
> I remember the first electric car

You should give Guinness a call. They think the oldest living person is 117, and you should have that beat by at least 15 years.
I hope the Rust team takes a look at Kotlins coroutines (and all the stuff they managed to build on top of them).
I think Kotlin is a good example because it is built ontop of a 1:1 runtime and uses very elegant primitives.

I was pretty disappointed Rust didn't ship with async/await and some form of lightweight thread but it's understandable.
A new build is being reviewed by Apple!
That's why you disguise the CNC commands as legitimate social media noise.

Then you can double dip - sell what the content of the command/abort messages are (or just allow for 'padding' messages for advertising in between) and suddenly your botnet doubles as a completely legitimate social media firm

Super bonus round: Launder your money from botnet activities through the social media firm's books

(I am, of course, kidding)
We prototyped a JS version of that during a hack day, with the intent being that people could elect to donate some mining time to charity while using a client's website.

It worked, technically, but the return was basically zero.
I don't want to pay money to read a website that I have never seen before.
I'm not sure that's entirely fair to Netscape and Mozilla. Early versions of IE had absolutely horrible standards compliance, so there was a substantial lock-in effect. Other browser developers had to expend considerable resources to emulate IE's rendering, bug for bug. Even Microsoft had to bend over backwards to maintain compatibility, via the once notorious quirks mode.
Something like that, yes.
Lessons Learned from Hearing 1,000 Startup Pitches in One Year
Agreed on all points. But my post was really intended to ask people for smaller scale ideas than "fix entire health care system" which seems nearly unachievable, and larger ideas than "donate what you can when you hear from someone in need". Is there nothing between the two extremes?
oh, that's easy, the unions fought for what was fair, and when they got it they KEPT GOING. we need a good balance, not for the side who happens to have the power at the moment taking all they can get.
Approximate chance a Sam Kriss article isn't the article of the year on Hacker News: 0 (at least when displayed as an integer). But I wonder if this one would win in a fight with the one about Neil deGrasse Tyson...

(I like a lot of HN articles, but the average Sam Kriss article is a lot better. Like I'm a dog drooling over my kibble... and then one day I get a sniff of my master's well-cooked person-food.)
I went to the conference 1 or 2 years ago and it was good. Worth the student pricing. I only did the training this year, also on student pricing, and it was pretty disappointing.
Most environmentalists want to bring a high standard of living to everybody in a sustainable way. Yes, there are some over on the "voluntary human extinction" end of the spectrum, but you shouldn't tar them all with that brush.
Ah, miegakure is not out yet, sorry!
A surprising number of people play multiplayer games just against bots. Because they aren't good enough for multiplayer, or don't have Internet, or the servers have long since been shut down, or they just don't enjoy multiplayer. I have played many hours of age of empires 2 against bots. But I find the multiplayer extremely unfun and have never won a match (not to mention lag and disconnect issues.) As a kid I played tons of Star Wars battlefront entirely against bots because I didn't have Xbox live.
The trick is to change your metrics often enough, so people can never be sure they gamed the right one.
I didn't know the author was a thing. This is my first collision[1] with his writing, as far as I know, although I don't always pay attention to bylines as much as I should.

[1] Badoom tss.
There is no one MLS, it isn't a cohesive database, it is made up of a ton of tiny independent services with fairly obnoxious policies and inconsistent data formats.

Zillow gets their data generally from the various MLS around the country and aggregate data with public records
They're still deadly: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-al...

People are still being taken advantage of. In some ways it's worse because 75 years ago if you managed to struggle through a shitty assembly line job for enough years you could afford to own a home, retire comfortably, send your kids through college, and hopefully ensure a better future for them. Today these jobs don't pay as well comparatively, and a lot of key expenses needed to get ahead are much, much more expensive. So instead of getting ahead working these dangerous jobs is like being on a treadmill.
Maybe it's art? I'd sat hateris is.
I wonder why NYT conveniently chose to ignore the previous US administration's WTO complaint on India's local component requirements for solar panels and it's subsequent verdict against India.

India required US solar panel manufacturers to source cells from locally, which was challenged by US in WTO and subsequently awarded in it's favour. So it's not just India is moving forward with green energy in spite of 'unfair-share' in global climate policies but also moving against the hurdles imposed specifically targeting it's green energy movements.
Hey all, I see a lot of comments asking about getting into CTFs. Trail of Bits has an awesome field guide [1] that I learned a ton from - check it out!

1. https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/
Very nice job. I've looked for mac plotting libraries and couldn't find much. Hence the question
per capita is pretty good measure of efficiency but environmental impact is probably better measured by emissions per area of the country? am I wrong?
It does look extremely similar to an SD card in construction, with a large flash die and a smaller controller: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022

The part number on the IC, after some contrast enhancements, appears to be MX28K128GL0 --- not a publicly documented Macronix part number, but may be related to the 28F128, a common 16MB (128Mb) NOR flash.