skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That place being the cool esoteric language that everybody fools around with on the weekends, but is almost never used seriously?
Periodic forest fires definitely seem more healthy for forest ecologies than logging, since they reduce potential fuel and return nutrients to the area. Logging or large forest-fires means significant deforestation/defloration leading to erosion.

We should be managing our lands with more controlled burns to periodically reduce the fuel load so a huge unmanageable natural forest fire doesn't break out.

Plus some species require forest fires, like ponderosa pine whose pine cones will only open to release their seeds from the heat of a forest fire.
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Let's not forget about Blockstack https://blockstack.org . I'm very excited to develop on this platform and it represents the direction the Internet needs to go in order to ensure its longevity. Check out their YouTube channel as the creator has recently posted a slew of micro-lessons to address common questions and concerns.
I wonder what the numbers are for Argon2
That's fine to me. Linux is about choice. One of my biggest problems with systemd is that other stuff starts to depend on it. For things like GNOME, it is not just an init system, it is THE one init system.

Also, I'm sure journald is useful, but I've had so many problems with it. For me as a Desktop and occasional remote computing, small server user, logs are ephemeral. Something goes wrong, I can quickly grep the logs which are plain text. I didn't really feel any advantage from the modern, binary, structured logs. Also, I spent hours installing something on WSL (Linux on Windows), finding that everything works except for the systemd logs, which are empty.

The command that controls services spits out hundreds of cryptic lines, services interweaved with all kinds of other objects, when I just want to list the running services. It has too many moving parts for my taste.

I don't need socket activation. I don't need a separate DNS resolver in my init system (unrelated note: I'd love more command line/GUI tools to be able to use a separate DNS resolver, work on separate interfaces, ...!), and so on.

Even if I will never use this guy's init system, if it is even a bit successful it will mean that people will stop assuming systemd, leading to a looser coupling, more interface stability, easier porting between systems, and more choice. So I think it's a great thing he is trying.
Indeed, https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

Not only that, using the particular setup you're describing, you wont have stream isolation, so all of your website browsing can be watched by a single exit node (whereas with the Tor Browser each site has its own circuit) which makes correlation attacks much damaging (whole browsing history in a session vs 1 site).
I suppose they're including the other tabs in that browser in their definition of "the rest of your computer", which seems very reasonable.
My Subaru Forester gets an effective oil change every 2500 miles. It burns a quart of synthetic in that time. Too little to get the recall work done (faulty rings). But at least the car gets a gradual oil change over the year!
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This is very cool, and I wish we had something like this, but I don't see many law firms going for it.

Most law firms (and I would guess all major ones) will not allow uploading of client documents or work-product to any cloud provider, let alone an unproven start up. This risk is frankly way too high.

The only way I see this happening in the legal context is if it can be run from the firm's servers with all data hosted locally.
> GET PAID TO BUILD YOUR NEXT PROJECT

> Choose a problem below to get started.

Get paid to build _my_ next project or _your_ next project?

This is clearly a two-sided platform, but the messaging seems conflated: the headline speaks to builders and the instructions speak to end customers.
I don't see it as a 'conversion' per se, but I've been doing something similar to property checking for years in various tests, and therefore I don't think this is necessarily a new 'discovery' but more of a refinement of a codification of an existing, long-standing (decades) practice.
Wood is still an important resource whose production and consumption has only grown, and yes, we've made it sustainable.

As an example, Finnish forests today have 2400 Mm^3 of wood, which is nearly twice as much as they had in the beginning of the 20th century, we cut ~70 Mm^3 per year, but the amount keeps growing because the yearly growth is greater than 100 Mm^3.

The reason for this is that most forests have essentially been turned into monoculture tree farms, and carefully managed for maximum productivity.
How many startup CEOs are college-educated?
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ok ok... let me try to get this straight. Just as kind of a mental process for trying to understand whether or not something passes the smell test, I typically try to take the basic premise and turn it up to 11 and see if that still makes sense.

In this problem, as you've described it, we're enumerating "ways to assign gender and birth-day-of-week." We can do this because there are a countable number of "days of the week" (so we can map to the integers: 1-6) AND there is also a surjective function of [child] -> [day of the week they were born]. Am I right so far?

Now let's replace the set [1-6] with another countable set that also maintains the surjective function. We could say "day in the lunar cycle" (so ~27 options), or better "day of the year" (366 options), for example. Do we now need to consider the 23662366 ways to assign gender and birth-day-of-the-year? Take it further with whatever you want: "birth weight in milligrams" or "number of freckles" (as I previously suggested). All countable things that meet the surjective requirement.

This is starting to smell funny, right? So let's take a look at the math.

You say there are 2727 ways to configure day+gender, assuming independence for kid 1 (k1) and kid 2 (k2). This represents: (k1 gender options * k1 day of week options) * (k2 gender options * k2 day of week options). Right? I'm with you so far. Then you say "Of these possibilities, 27 are situations where one kid is a Tuesday boy." Hold up.

We are given two pieces of information: that one of the kids is a boy, and that particular boy was born on a Tuesday. Let's say the boy is k1 (this is an assignment of enumeration, not of "who came first;" just like Sunday = 1 does not mean that any kid born on a Sunday was born before every kid born on Monday = 2). So now the k1 options are [11] (boy, tuesday), and the total number of options are: [11] * [27] = 14. Of those 14, 7 are girl options. And we're back to a straight 50%.

So yes, I dispute the 27 number. It seems like it is arrived at by 2127, minus one for an apparent duplicate. But the 212*7 represents maintaining gender non-specificity for Tuesday boy, which should be incorrect, no?

> You have stated by fiat that certain things are irrelevant to certain other things...

Yes, but that's what "independent" means, right? You also stated that you're assuming these two things are independent, hence equiprobability. But independence is defined by P(A) = P(A|B). The probability of A is completely unaffected by B. Yet the outcome you arrive at is that P(A) IS affected by B, so the math presented is internally inconsistent.

What am I missing here? I'm fascinated by the uncertainty around this little problem.
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Except for the Eurozone where the ECB doesn't appear to really act as an arm of anyone's government.
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True, but morally it's much better to try to bring everyone up to an acceptable level of political understanding, than to exclude people for the lack of that understanding, especially since ignorance wouldn't really be their own fault.
Not at all. I don't blame a single person who voted for Donald Trump (disclaimer: Bernie Sanders was "my" candidate); Trump made promises, and people voted for those promises. The fault lies with his failing his base, not the base itself.

Now, if he runs again and people still vote for him after he's lied and broken most of his campaign process, that can't be fixed, in which case maybe democracy is broken.
There's an add-on you can get in whatever marketplace they have. But I hate using those because it's not clear to me what these third parties can or can't see. I found it when I realized that despite Google storing extensive change history they hardly do anything with it.
I've been trying to scout out some open areas away from civilization, mostly to avoid ambient light but also to avoid huge traffic in and out of any park or freeway interchange.

I fully anticipate traffic to be screwed up for hours afterward.
>I think most groundbreaking research is government sponsored

And I think many of the researchers are the oft exploited grad students and the like who are not typically bound by union agreements --some staff and contractors may be unionized, but not most of the people doing the drudgery work that goes into research, at least in the US.
They should have hover over text or a sticky post on the top.
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> I've noticed multiple multibillion dollar companies who fall into disarray, have CEOs sit quietly in the background, hire a woman to come in and try to save it

This is known as the glass cliff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
According to Henrik Fisker's tweet[1], Fisker EMotion is using NMC chemistry (or LiNiMnCoO2)[2], can someone with expertise to explain more in details how this type of batteries can be fast charged in 9-mins?

[1]: https://twitter.com/FiskerOfficial/status/874036698622992384

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
These things are good, but have so far been applied carelessly and unevenly. This is where my comment about conscientiousness comes in.

We need to start asking "For what purpose?" and "Who could this hurt?" more often. Packing more transistors into a CPU and working magic with algorithms to squeeze more out of them is not so good if it goes into a machine intended for surveillance and violating privacy, or to wipe out a million jobs because it can all be done by a few people now.

We can keep packing the transistors and working the magic, but it's going to keep doing a lot of damage if the people responsible don't think about the human impact.
Thanks to JACK, they kinda already are able to operate together decently.
unless you're going to do full censorship there is no cure, the MSM is clearly against trump in the election which could be decisive in the past, the social network dared to disagree this time and actually made a difference, but, what is wrong then, let them compete and people will know where to turn to, remember, majority of them have already made their mind no matter what, it's the middle ground that is affected.
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Not all existing crypto would be broken. Symmetric encryption algorithms like AES will be fine. Asymmetric encryption (public-key) algorithms like RSA/DSA will be in trouble due to Shor's algorithm, but other public-key systems will be fine. Hash functions like SHA-2 and SHA-3 will be mostly fine, because Grover's algorithm is at best sub-exponential, not quadratic.

Also, quantum cryptography mostly provides superior key establishment/management capabilities, not superior confidentiality guarantees. It's a misnomer to state that we can achieve "stronger encryption" by "leveraging entanglement states"; most of quantum computing is useful for cryptanalytic attacks right now, not cryptographic construction.
This fills a niche I need but I can't use a service where I upload the documents to your server (unless you can show certification of at least ISO 27001). I would also be willing to pay more for it. Version controlling Word documents is a need for anyone doing a lot of QC. You have a superb product to sell.
Imagining how exciting the first galaxy detection would be though is quite a thing.
>Do you have the same objection to grouping the simple gates you mention under the name of "boolean logic"?

Why wouldn't he? Wouldn't a term like 'switch logic' be much more intuitive?
A switch is either on or off, true or false.
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Almost no car dies because the engine is worn out due to infrequent oil changes, unless the owner just doesn't change the oil at all.

Cars usually get scrapped for some problem that is uneconomical to fix due to the age of the car, long before the engine is worn out.
Just sticky the post inside of the black bar like so http://imgur.com/a/Mceqq
Can only one person "apply" to solve it?

I'm thinking of the kickstarter problem: vaporware.

If, over 6 months, 5 people apply to solve a problem, who gets the subscribers?

The first one, I hope not.

Each subscriber chooses?

P.s. Very interesting idea. Something in this direction will be useful.
I read the comment not as saying "only female ceos are criticized for too much money" but "female executives are only criticized for making too much money".
You've completely missed the point.

I make no claim about the importance of performance.

My claim is that the performance gains brought by lazy evaluation are far less important than the other gains it brings (because the performance gains it brings are rather small).
Yes, no reason for the downvotes.

Infinities are problematic too.
I love the idea and initiative!

My only concern is that this is a little "race to bottom"; most if not all the entries are along the lines of "I already have X but I'm paying too much!"

I guess this is great for solo entrepeneur/developers, hell, if I know for certain I had 100 people waiting to pay me $50/m for X, I would definately consider building it :)
It's hard to believe that a world where Ruby, Python and Node are massively popular cares about performance above expressiveness. Even Java became popular first and fast afterwards—not even talking about memory efficiency!

I'd agree that a lot of developers still over-index on performance though, probably because it's sexy and easy to measure.
This looks like an idea/market validator posing as a job listing market. Brilliant.
I don't know, I'm just wondering if they're consistent about it, or if they've internalized terms like "boolean" to the point where they forget that they're named in the same way. Given how common such things are in many fields, it strikes me as weird to single out this particular instance.

Along those lines, I also wonder if they object to measuring the power consumption of their boolean gates in "watts."
I think one of the killer apps is the purpose Feynman originally envisioned – simulating quantum systems: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman....

I wasn't able to dig up too much, but the introduction to a paper [1] by some Google folks provides a bit of insight into what might be possible:

> In particular, quantum simulation of molecular
energies, which enables numerically exact prediction of
chemical reaction rates, promises significant advances in
our understanding of chemistry and could enable in silico
design of new catalysts, pharmaceuticals, and materials.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prx/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031007
I wholeheartedly agree we spend much of our technology on both frivolous stuff and dangerous stuff (things that are detrimental to the wellbeing of people in general) -but the good offsets the negatives, I think.
Thanks! Most of the stuff is already open source on GitHub - even if it is a bit... crappy at the moment. I'm attempting a re-write with a vue.js frontent and a python LaTeX -> JSON compiler.

Here are the associated repos:

https://github.com/JBorrow/latex-pandoc-preprocessor (pandoc does not handle cross-references from LaTeX -> markdown correctly at the moment. Can be installed with pip install ltmd)

https://github.com/JBorrow/lectures-in-the-middle (the website & dodgy compilation script). The docs for this are pretty rubbish at the moment but the configuration file (litm.cfg) is pretty verbose.

If you are interested in setting it up and need more info, it's probably best to chat via email. It should work just fine already, and as I said students love it, but I'm not completely happy with middleman and the huge number of dependencies.

Also: if you're interested in contributing to the new frontend then let me know, I'm looking for contributors.
I wonder if the Byzantine generals algorithm could be applied to fake news. A distributed truth block chain.
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Isn't this exactly how Freelancer/odesk/whatever work now?
Ethereum.
Explain how smart contracts would automate away a title holding companies.
simple and easy read. kind of clickbait-y title though.

> the rule of thumb is to have at least 9 different categories or dimensions to get your data points from to make machine learning worthwhile (or in math speak, n>=9)

i'm not an expert but is that really a thing?
So would everyone else on the site. Thus the problem.
Anything can be used for good or evil. Its the wrong place to attack the problem - we can't live in the stone age because "somebody might misuse fire".
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I think you are greatly underestimating the value of developer good will.

> it's just a minimal amount of time to have their devs maintain a project page and accept public comments and changesets.

It's really a lot of work to maintain a project of this size, and all of its issues and documentation. I'm guessing it easily doubles the total amount of work.

> It makes their devs happier too, to think that they don't just work for FB, but also give something back to the community.

I would go further and say that these devs would be unhappy and question the meaning of their work without such projects.

> But for FB (...) React (...) is insignificant

Perhaps, perhaps not. But I am personally not supporting this any further, and doing my best not to be hypocritical by on the one hand criticizing Facebook and how they abuse their users in every conceivable way, and on the other hand applauding their open source efforts.
Smart tree, claiming environmental impact of up to 275 trees
I feel like I've searched pretty extensively but not found such an add-on. If you can remember the name and link it here that would be awesome.
The Robber baron Jay Gould once put it as "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other".

The middle and working classes are much less powerful political bloc if they are fighting each another (young/old). Hence the steady flow of articles like this one pitting "boomers" against "millenials" and vice versa.

The provision of decent pensions, free education and social welfare was affordable in the 50s-80s when the country was much poorer and the idea that it has become less affordable because we live slightly longer after many decades of massive economic growth is, to put it bluntly, economically illiterate. The money is there.
Sorry, what do you mean?

If I may guess: you want to make gotos central? That only holds for compiling to von-Neumann machines. Some other computational structures might not even have instruction pointers to move around.
It'd be useful to see this broken down by state, as while large trees aren't common in the Phoenix area of Arizona, there is increasing desertification there as more and more healthy desert is plowed to a monocrop or paved over for housing and shopping centers.
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This reminds me of what assembly was doing where people would list startup / app ideas then teams would form and build the idea and I think a few businesses came out of that.
>Imagine if unions were strong and IT were unionized. How would you imagine the progress we've seen in information technology?

I'm not sure this is really a compelling point. Tech companies have made some cool stuff, but technology is also heavily driven by FOSS, which is not really driven by the same factors business are. Union or no union isn't really a question with FOSS, as these projects, many of which drive modern technology, were developed without traditional business incentives. Yes they're are businesses built around supporting open technology, but techs huge advances aren't driven only by companies. I think unionization would have less of an impact on tech advances than is being suggested.
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Hey OP, this looks like an awesome tool, good job! Just a quick question, would the primary alternative to your product be Microsoft Sharepoint? If so, how would you market your service as better?
You're confusing the binary format with the tamper protection, or file "sealing". The two features are really independent.
If miners chose to mine on a chain that no-one wants, they'll run into losses. Users will probably move to some other chain.
As an example: Bitcoin users might wanna switch to Litecoin. And guess what miners will do then ?
It hasn't been an issue thus far, but I'll see if I can make that clearer. I'm not implying that developers are writing macOS apps in Python or C#, but they are writing Windows apps in C#, and they're writing cross-platform desktop apps in JS, as well as licensing servers and on-premise software (and that includes a lot--WordPress plugins, software like Sidekiq, etc.) in all of those languages. Keygen can either be integrated directly into a product e.g. macOS/Windows app, or it can be integrated into a server to transparently handle licensing (nobody can infer that you're using Keygen in this case using something like Little Snitch). Like I said before, there's a simple reason Swift and Obj-C aren't up there: I don't know them very well; I'm in the process of learning Swift, so that will change soon though.
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Anecdotally, my Camry had 3 engines before it was involved in an accident well north of 200,000 miles.
+1. title and aria-label attributes would go a long way here.
One thing I've learned to accept about Linux, in general, is that it likes to go its own way relative to other Unix-like systems.

I've come to accept systemd and actually like it in the sense that, for the most part, it just works and gets out of my way. The more I learn about journalctl's options for viewing logs, the more I like it.

The case of Linux going its own way that drives me nuts though is the replacement of 'ifconfig'. The replacement seems to be in progress, with some distributions shipping 'ifconfig' in addition to the 'ip' and others only shipping 'ip'.

EDIT: Other Unixes have also gone their own way with init systems to meet their own needs. MacOS, for example, replaced initd with launchd. Solaris, way back in 2005 with Solaris 10, replaced init with SMF[0] which does some of the things that systemd does on Linux.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Management_Facility
why the c++ hate in comments? because of the memory leaks?
Is AMP the web 3.0?
I believe in Google, not dumb enough to work there ;) I'd be a doctor if I felt like throwing away my time.
My guess is that at first it will look like existing programming languages, but with some extra commands (apply Hadamard or QFT or whatever to a register). Over time, people will find good ways to incorporate concepts like reversibility, coherent conditions, phasing, and mixing quantum/classical data deep into the language semantics.

For example, Grover's algorithm could be written like this:

def grover_search_sample(bit_count, predicate):
qureg = qalloc(bit_count)
apply X to qureg
apply H to qureg
n = pi/4 * 2**(bit_count/2)
for _ < n:
if predicate(qureg):
phase_by pi
if all(x_axis(qureg)):
phase_by pi
return measure qureg