skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Um, per capita is the important metric.

The true number of starving people is not an important metric?
Any coin can be subverted if the majority of the userbase agrees so - that's a fork.

Note that for fiat currencies, this is true, too. It's even worse, because usually it's 51% of the issuing national government, which might be a much smaller group that the total users.
I have run a company for 13 years and I don't have doubt about it at all. Dropping to 5 hours is for sure going to be less productive unless all your employees are terrible in the first place (in which case, just hire people who want to work more).

I am not claiming that the standard 8-hour day is the maximum; but I think if a shorter day is better, I would guess the situation would peak around 7 or 7.5 hours. But again this depends on what kind of people you are talking about. I personally work 60+ hours a week, most weeks, and I prefer it that way.
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> A US dollar bill is at the end of the day just a piece of paper - that is assigned a value (that constantly changes) by the market.

Ultimately, the U.S. dollar is backed by the U.S. Military. What is bitcoin backed with?
Leaked Internal Documents Show UberPool Was a Cash-Burning Machine
The damaged component is pretty similar to a bug in a library.
Graphics are irrelevant, I'm talking about physics. Stock KSP graphics are "good enough".
Before you get excited about unleashing the power of 16 cores on your desktop... I have recently upgraded from the 4-core to 6-core i7 with roughly the same frequency/turbo and noticed that compile times have actually increased.

Disappointing, I thought, especially because in addition to extra two cores I now sport a quad-channel DDR RAM. Well, turns out that compiling my Go projects does not generate enough "hot" threads, and the Linux scheduler keeps moving them around between 6 cores, letting the cores to "cool down" and drop to 1.2Ghz idle frequency. Meanwhile the 4-core box is happily spinning at 3.4-3.8Ghz during the compile cycle.

The only way to make the 6-core box to perform was to enable "performance" policy for intel_pstate which leads to the CPU running at its full speed even at idle (not great). Once I did that I saw the performance increase by 50%.

Here are the compile times of the same project on both machines with different CPU frequency scaling policies:

governor/cpu 4-core 3.4Gz 6-core 3.3Ghz
------------ ------------- --------------
standard 13 sec 15 sec
performance 11 sec 9 sec

As far as I know, AMD does not have an equivalent of intel_pstate in Linux kernel and relies on legacy ACPI governor which isn't as sophisticated as Intel's (where the CPU is more self-regulating) and I wonder what kind of effects to expect in regards to performance / power consumption if I go for Ryzen.
Looks enticing. Is it a single fixed menu every week or can we select from a variety of different options?
Hi, this is the CTO of Armory. If any of you have questions about cloud adoption or want to learn more about what setup might work for you, feel free to ask me!
It seems the submitter changed the title, against HN policies.
It's not going to be enough, that's why. Sure, you can work more right now to try to save up money, but making 30% more money now isn't remotely enough to make up for how much those kids are going to cost.

On top of that, you have to remember that you can't have kids by yourself (at least not easily, if you're male): you need a willing partner. If you're working your ass off to save money for kids, that means you're either letting your relationship suffer because you're at work all the time, or you're missing out on opportunities to find a partner. And the older you get, the harder it is to find a good partner (really, you need to find her in college; if you haven't found her by age 25, you probably won't).

All in all, our society simply isn't set up to have an enjoyable middle-class lifestyle and have kids. You need to pick one or the other: either be poor and have kids and struggle financially, or enjoy a more financially comfortable lifestyle and forgo having kids. Also, having a happy relationship and having kids are at odds with each other, so again you have to pick one. Either have kids and look forward to divorce and child support or at least a miserable marriage where you dread coming home from work, or find a partner who doesn't want kids and enjoy spending time with her.

It's little wonder that the birth rates in developed nations have fallen so low.
Another great explanation - so its kinda-like a package manager for complete systems (like my above WordPress example).

Neat! Think I'm getting the appeal now
You can download the Brave private browser at www.brave.com. The Brave browser automatically disables all ads and tracking when you browse any website. The founder of Brave also created JavaScript.
Ha, the top 100 holders own ~99% of the total token supply. Really poorly executed distribution model: https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/BAT
I don't think it has to be explicit hate-of-the-job for burnout to occur. For me personally it was just lack of meaning in that job. I didn't, deep down, feel that it was very important, or the right thing for me to be doing. It was just the thing I was doing because I didn't have anything better to do.
Maybe Skip SHA-3
I never thought to video them. There are rallies every year in our local town where 20 or so get together and drive around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbs5BfpbAH4

My father-in-law is a conductor on a local steam engine. My SO got to drive it -- the lucky lady :)
It's not observable to the calling function (the return value didn't change) so it doesn't count.

Perhaps a way to think about it is as a way defining the contract between a library function and its callers regarding what substitutions are permissible. For example, substituting a faster algorithm is likely observable to the end user, but the calling function will continue to return the same value so it's a compatible substitution.

Similarly, turning on compiler optimizations or debug logging should not be a correctness issue, though it certainly matters or we wouldn't do it.
I've been playing with kubernetes for the past month and I'm just now deciding not to go with it for our new production systems, mostly because I just don't understand it well enough to know how to fix it if it goes wrong.

There's a lot of cool things about kubernetes (e.g. I had an automated SSL cert fetcher for LetsEncrypt that applied to any SSL ingress I added) but it still does some weird things sometimes (like constantly trying to schedule pods on instances without enough spare memory, and then killing other pods because of that; fairly certain that's not supposed to happen).

I think I'll revisit it next year and hope that it's a bit easier to get into. I'm especially hopeful about using it with Spinnaker and some sort of CI, though I couldn't find anything lighter weight than Jenkins that was straightforward to get set up on it.
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This particular example may not demonstrate it, but it absolutely is an American issue, not a Trump issue. Denial of climate change, its negative consequences, and the merits of fighting it have been a standard part of the Republican platform for a long time.
Isn't this simply a case of execution?

Everyone has ideas. I had an idea for a product. Then a couple of years later somebody was selling the product and seemed to be doing well out of it. I was pleased that at least it was out there. I had my chance. I didn't execute on it.

So the real question is, can you be first to market? If not, can you execute better than them? Can you join them? Ideas just happen all the time.
Hotly anticipated solar mission renamed to honour astrophysicist Eugene Parker
I'm wondering if they were bitten by the semi-common "any authenticated user" misunderstanding. That maps to any user in all of S3, not just your account.
It seems quite relevant to me - the ethereum foundation has a reference implementation of PoS and is planning to begin a partial transition within 6 months. It's clearly roadmapped, and much development has been done already, unlike the vague assertion that "other coins would switch to it"
> I should have said that it's very limited and much more difficult to use than Ethereum's smart contracts.

I think the biggest issue with Bitcoin Script is that only a subset of scripts is considered "standard" [0] and only standard transactions are propagated by the network. If you can find a miner that accepts non standard TX then it's fine and blockchain already contains some interesting transactions (like lottery [1]).

[0]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21123/which-scri...

[1]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts#multilottery
Thank you, this is exactly what my rhetorical question was aiming for. If BTC/ETH are investments, fine... that is a world away from currency.
To put it into perspective, the USD has an inflation rate of 2% a year, according to the feds target.
These concepts are discussed in detail in the Coursera course "Learning How to Learn" and the accompanying book "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley. Spaced Repetition, Pomodoro, Chunking, Interleaving are things I'm trying to integrate in my learning routine.
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Looks fantastic. I've been complaining for years that there wasn't any program like this, and even started many times working on it. Thumbs up!
Is this expected to affect the market for ETH ? And if so, by how much ?
Could a chip based on the SuperH ISA (off which the patents expire) [0] like JCore compete with RISC-V if similar effort would be put into it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperH
It costs extra because CORRUPTION. They're skimming off the top at every level, and that's why they can't let anyone investigate.
I'm not a very versed DevOps guy, but I have used Ansible, Terraform and Kubernetes.

It should go a bit like this:

- Use Terraform to provision VMs, networking resources and storage from DigitalOcean. Basically, write the scripts that make your whole infrastructure available with a single command.

- Then use Ansible for anything you might want installed on those machines - Kubernetes, security packages, SSH keys for your team.

- Use Kubernetes to then deploy your application on top of your secure and replicable infrastructure.

Each of the steps above should be roughly one shell command. If you are disciplined enough to always provision machines, install packages and deploy your app via config files, this should be very much achievable.
>The first is that the environmental impact of building the car doesn't get much coverage and focus is on the impact of running the car.

Here is a first order analysis: A car that travels 200,000 miles in its life @ 30 mpg (nation avg is 25.5) will burn 6667 gallons of gasoline, weighing 42,000 lbs. The weight of the gas burnt is over 14x more than the weight of the car. Those 6667 gallons produce 133,340 lbs of CO2. The average car burns its own weight in gasoline in 12,000 miles, less than a year of driving.

Here is a more complete analysis:
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cle...
Very interesting list of links. This is such a good topic for popularization because of its visual and concrete aspects. (e.g. Papert and Turkle's idea of the "revaluation of the concrete" http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html ). (Drawing is always concrete, I guess, not just because it's a hand-eye coordination thing, but because of its particularity.)

FWIW The most general wikipedia article and category that comes close to covering what you describe as "optical synthesis" is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_sound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphical_sound

The page emphasises the optical film soundtrack (on celluloid) as a medium for experimentation, which is something I'm fascinated by.

The gender aspect is interesting too, maybe related to ideas like Papert and Turkle's. There are at least two female film artists who have done interesting critical work with the optical film track:

Ute Aurand
http://www.uteaurand.de/filme/paul_celan_liest.php

Lis Rhodes
https://lux.org.uk/work/dresden-dynamo

also, in a different way,

Aura Satz
https://www.thewire.co.uk/video/p=15036

whose work has, AFAIK, included providing replica tapes for the Oramics machine when it was displayed at the Science Museum.

There's also of course the very famous and female Delia Derbyshire, working in a similar milieu to Oram, but without pursuing the graphical aspect.

I'm sure you're aware of this, but for the record, there's a physical archive of Oram material at Goldsmiths in London:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/
The man in charge is Mick Grierson, an old Dorkbot London hand.

Your software looks excellent. Very intuitive version of what others try to do textually
e.g. http://functional-art.org/2013/hudak.pdf

On slide 16 of that set Hudak uses the dreaded Haskell monads (well, arrows) to compose a synthesis setup (a model of a flute), but it's an excellent example of something that could be done so much less opaquely in a graphical environment like yours)
Which makes it all the more telling that the denier side cites essentially no scientific results.
For 2017 it is 14.75% [1]. The bigger question is to what it may change in the future. Vitalik has stated that it will be lower / closer to zero, but who knows. The only given is that it will change.

[1] https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/12501/what-is-e...

Updated typo: 14.75%, not 1475..
I have the exact same issue with it. It just tries to do everything and it's too much to wrestle with when you just want the basics.
I don't disagree with the overall thrust of the piece, but the information about the F-shaped reading and four-second page switch doesn't imply, I don't think, what the author thinks it does. Typically people are sifting through tons of search results to find what they are looking for and exhaustively poring over each source before moving on wouldn't make a lot of sense. Not really the same as being distracted.
CoreOS Automates Kubernetes Node OS Upgrades
Instagram Stories vs. Snapchat: 5 Reasons Stories Is Dominating
Remember, this is Russia we're talking about - or haven't you watched any of those dashcam videos? If it drove what we in the West think of as "normal", it would probably cause more accidents, not less.

/s
Man, k10k and Joshua Davis' stuff were the first stops for every designer looking for inspiration at my old job circa 2000-2004.
Thanks for the reply.

1 - For patronage, how do you view the Patreon model?

2 - A gift economy seems good, but how do you eventually "gift up" to the necessities (food, water, shelter)?
For figuring out how to write pod and service specs - I really like looking at the Helm Charts source code:

https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable

(Helm aims to be a package manager for kubernetes, and its packages are called Charts)
and thats precisely the cool thing. i made 4k last weekend working on a video encoder. delivered and now goof of since then
Ultimately, the U.S. dollar is backed by the U.S. Military

What does this even mean?

That if the US economy crashes and dollars become worthless, the military will plunder a few countries for resources to restore it?
What do you by saying USD is backed by the Military? I'm sure what you mean by that? I guess if another country owes the US money the military could "go and collect"? What about in country?

If you mean legally - I believe stealing anything in the US is illegal, this would include BTC. The effectiveness of the government to enforce punishment for stealing BTC could be a valid weakness.
Thank you, awesome, please do!
Though hopefully some day ChucK will have proper WASAPI and ASIO.
http://prestonservices.co.uk/category/steam-engines/road-ste...
I would say people.
Original source is no longer available.

https://github.com/search?&q=qart for a few different implementations, and some advancing the theory.

https://github.com/vitrun/qart - cloned from original source

https://github.com/chinuno-usami/CuteR - picture with a bit of data dither

https://github.com/scola/Qart - Android app

https://github.com/kciter/qart.js - javascript version, browser or NPM
I say this as a massive KSP fan with ~1000 hours in it (admittedly a lot lower than others).

Almost any level of support will be better than SQUAD.

5 guys working part time on it would yield more features/year than SQUAD has managed to roll out over the years.

My only concern is mod support, since that's been the main source of new feature growth.
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Lies. Merkels government just changed how the number is calculated. They created programs for unemployed (1 euro jobber, "Aufstocker") and removed them from the statistic.

They still receive social support but are not "fully unemployed"

http://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/arbeitslose-statistik-100.htm... (german)

The growing income inequality tells the real story.
Valve is.
Assuming you wish this list to be drawn from the list of "things humans can do" as opposed to "things just are simply impossible (as far as we know)", I'm having a tough time coming up with anything.

My feeling is that the the main "thing" separating human intelligence and artificial intelligence going forward, will be the "embodied" nature of human learning. That is, there are things we learn though our senses of sight, hearing, touch, kinæsthetic awareness, proprioception, etc., that you couldn't easily transfer to a computer. It would basically have to live in a body (somewhat) like ours and experience the environment somewhat like the way we do.

But, that said, robotics and AI seem to advance in lockstep to some degree, and it may be that in 100 years we have robots that allow an AI to experience the world pretty much the same way we do. If so, that would close the gap even more.
I don't remember "varying your study location" in that book.
> But this does not prevent me from paying for my taxes with my labor; I just have to convert my labor into that currency first.

So BTC/ETH are going to become currencies like the dollar or euro and not a painting or a goat which they are equivalent to now? Is that your position?
You made a typo and are off by a factor of 100.
I almost purchased that book. Is it working for you?
Solution: Keep all CPU's active.

go build main.go &

go build main.go &

go build main.go &

go build main.go &

go build main.go &

go build main.go &

/s
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Support

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2940175/cryteks-powerful-crye...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)#OS_X.2C...

UE4 even runs in a browser out of the box. Unity is not the Magic Linux Engine, it's just a bit more convenient because of .NET, particularly when it comes to modding.
Somewhat. A few bad Gram positives are coagulase negative Staphylococcus, MRSA, Streptococcus pyogenes/pneumoniae/virdans/mitis etc.
Compared to the other topics covered, and to be covered, how is this essential to a successful startup?
I've been running a software company, working on and managing various software projects, and launching/running software products for 10+ years.

The timing of this article is excellent as I was just about to start the search for conferences I could share some of my knowledge with. I've spoken at universities, colleges, and small business conferences a bunch of times and my talks are usually well received.

However, I'm still not sure about is where to find conferences with audiences who might be interested in what I have to say.
Your original comment read as if you were saying that Unity was to blame for what the graphics look like.
The link section is a world of nostalgia for me. Lots of websites that were truly amazing in 1997-2000
There is a huge speculative bubble going on in the cryptocoin world. Check out the history of the largest non-Chinese exchanges Poloniex and Bitfinex before getting involved. They have created billions of dollars in equity in just a couple months mostly in useless altcoins.
Hackers jailbreak permanent mods onto Super Mario World save files
KSP was possibly my best entertainment spending ever. It definitely is the best game for me in terms of costs / time played. If you haven't played it yet, do yourself a favour and buy it now. If you have a kid with even tangential interest in space, get a copy for them.

Side effects of playing KSP include:

- getting an intuitive feel for basic orbital mechanics

- finding yourself reading up on actual math to better understand what's happening with your rockets (and how to build more efficient one)

- no longer being able to watch most space movies due to frustration caused by the filmmakers not grokking basic orbital physics

(RE the last point - after Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and The Expanse series, getting basic spaceflight wrong should no longer be accepted in popular media. Looking at you, makers of The 100.)
Galileo used that method (balls rolling on an inclined plane) to slow down gravitational acceleration enough to study it by eye.

[Edited to clarify Galileo's use of a slightly tilted ramp.]
The parent said it's 'not graphics' that's the problem. I agree that it's not really the graphics that are an issue in KSP, but most likely the physics engine.

Essentially, most (unity) games don't allow their users to create content, whereas the essential part of KSP is the creation and simulation of lots of bodies.

I've definitely experienced a substantial slowdown when many entities are on the screen at the same time.

I'm not sure if KSP makes use of the normal Unity physics engine, a third-party one, or something developed in-house.
I think I get the underlying idea, and it is clever.

A traditional antibiotic does one nasty thing to the bacteria. So if bacteria find a single point mutation that helps, there is an evolutionary advantage. This allows resistance to evolve fairly easily once the mutation comes along.

But this is doing several nasty things to bacteria at once, in parallel. So a point mutation that helps with any one attack confers only a minor selection benefit because the others still kill the bacteria. Ideally it would want to evolve a combination of resistances to different attacks in parallel, but that isn't how evolution works.

Resistance can still evolve, but it will be much slower. Improved resistance to whatever is currently the deadliest attack does have a selection benefit, and will spread. But it will be a smaller benefit, and the evolutionary path to full resistance is much longer. So the process is slowed.
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