skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this chart of Newton's involvement in the South Sea Bubble: https://cdn.sovereignman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013...

Think I'll print it and stick it to the wall somewhere.
What's the meme though, honestly it doesn't look like anything but random cpp abuse to me
This is called market inefficiency. Don't fret, there will be a lesson or two and companies will catch up in understanding what this is about, exactly.
In England you'd write a letter before action. This would set out what happened, why it's wrong, and what you want them to do to put it right. You'd give them a time limit - maybe 14 days. You'd send it by mail, by signed-for delivery.

Then if they haven't put things right in the time limit you'd go to court, which can be done online now.

I think a similar process exists where you are, and would focus coinbase into fixing the problem.
I wish I knew what an ICO was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO
ECS vs. Kubernets: same same but different
ES2017's async/await is the best thing to ever happen to JavaScript
Your article doesn't mention the other uses of smart contracts, of Swarm, and of Whisper. The article is embarrassingly one-sided in terms of arguments.

(Disclosure: I bought ETH one month ago for development using these 3 tools).
4.0 is a regression imo. The docs say that if you do server side rendering with code splitting then 'God Speed' (their words not mine).

I don't see the benefit of switching if v3 allowed me to ssr and code split while v4 doesn't allow me to do both.

From the user pov it went from instantly displayed page with minimal js required to choosing one of those options.

What benefits could exist that supercede giving the user the best possible experience? (Genuine question).

I can't imagine huge speed gains going from one page to the next from this change and indeed changing pages in SPAs are essentially instant. So what could possibly be better that makes it worth getting rid of ssr and code splitting? Imo I won't be using react-router in future products because they are too fickle with their codebase.
Thank you for that story, it really cracks me up. The whole cryptocoin trading thing is fun because it is so crazy.
I don't know why anyone really talks about Ethereum. The community basically just goes around saying "Bitcoin is dead" and tries to get you to buy Ethereum as if it's some sort of pyramid scheme.

No thanks.
Unfortunately, it spans farther than inside the company. There's suppliers, outside counsel, partners, customers, etc. Voice for that sort of thing is dying too, because people either disable, or don't check voice mail.
> I don't really see if implementing what they have because it's already built in.

Amsterdam, as city, is hundreds of years old. Bicycles weren't around then. They have had to put bike infrastructure in.
"Wind energy takes a lot of coal to setup, so we shouldn't even try" is this author's entire statement. He suggests we focus back on fossil fuels, i.e. natural gas and coal, which he admits he has a commercial interest in.

While I cannot discount his assertion of how much power it takes to build wind turbines, I can point out that using CURRENT fossil fuel power generation to bootstrap our renewables, even wind energy, is a good thing. We're not attempting to go from 0 - 60 by building an entirely separate power grid from scratch. We, as a species, are attempting to move from a harmful and eventually scarce set of fuels to clean energy. Not suddenly. Not quickly. And eventually, slow moving as it is, we will find ways to maximize renewable output. Look at how long it took to squeeze so much power from coal and oil. It didn't take 5 years, it took decades.

To decry renewables like wind because we RIGHT NOW need current coal and oil power to produce it, is worth mentioning but NOT a reason to discount such!
The shovel makers win.
OpenCV Web Apps
> written in such a way that objects are assumed to be non-moving

Not generally, but you can take the address of anything and shove it into a union or pass it off to C code that stores it somewhere. Because you can, it would be very dangerous to move objects around because of that.
Well, you're assuming asymmetry with no evidence that it's particularly likely.
I seen it's use of smart contracts with the DAO.. now that was embarrassing.
Got a link to your resume? Happy to give you some pointers. (3 years working remotely so far and have been on a lot of hiring teams for remote positions).
Smart doll fitted with AI chip can read your child’s emotions
Interesting, but...

> Upon creation, a unique smart contract tracks the value of her three assets, and holding her collateral.

How does the smart contract track that value, in a manipulation- and tamper-free way? The only way seems to be through data published by centralized exchanges...
The blatant disregard for the Bundesverfassungsgericht some politicians show drives me mad when I think about it too long. They shot down the Bundestrojaner once already, and based on their reasoning about the matter (or what I remember of it), I am certain they will do so again.
I use Webpack in a couple of projects, but it only seems to fit well for single page applications that fit their near-standard configurations.

We tried to replace Gulp with it at work for some relatively complex software but it was an absolute nightmare; Webpack is highly opinionated and to get it to build multiple different targets with different configurations requires jumping through a lot of hoops or worse, having to have separate Webpack configs and different build commands for each different asset target.

The last straw for us was how messy it got trying to build our LESS at the same time. Packaging all the LESS into your compiled JS, then having to extract it to put it in other files is absolutely ridiculous.
SCOTUS Narrows Forum-Shopping in Big Pharma Action
Gillian Anderson, 48, endures NIP-SLIP as she flashes  derriere in  swimsuit
> This is the world of Linux software installation.

You don't get to first choose Arch for its different packaging system and then
act highly surprised that it's different and adds to the variety of package
types. Sorry, no banana here.
Got any sources on this?

I'm finding it hard to believe smoke from cannabis combustion is anything other than terrible for your lungs.
"An acm day is a day at which you do nothing but pracitce, typically spending 16 hours in practice and sleeping/eating/doing other stuff in 8 hours. For sure, this is not reasonable for our daily lives, but we need to define such a day as it is suitable for feeling progressive."

I don't get it. If it is agreed upon that this acm day is not reasonable or practical, why do we still need to define it and why is it 'suitable for feeling progressive' ?
> and as a result the ecosystem of copylefted software is reduced

You might be worried, but I'm not. In fact, I'd say that it's a magnificent trend. The less copyleft software, the better.
As someone that has been openly critical of bitcoin in the past it's funny to see the bitcoin communities response to other cryptocurrencies while claiming anyone that doesn't buy into their coin is clearly just unintelligent or unable to comprehend technology and the future.

I'm reminded of the joke about the atheist and the christian where the atheist says to the christian "We believe in basically the same thing. I just believe in one less god than you".

I'm still yet to see any cases where any of these coins or tokens perform better than a centralized system(and can continue to perform better at similar utilization) or where the value of the distributed system is worth more than the cost of distributing it. But I've been surprised by the communities before so maybe I will be again.
While this is probably a step in a good direction, I would like to see EU enforcing companies to be responsible for the security of the products they are offering if they want to conduct business in EU states.
Unions, Workers, and Wages at the Peak of the American Labor Movement
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the analogy to taking away an epileptic's driving licence.

People who regularly suffer epileptic seizures are not allowed to drive, for example, but we don’t think of this ban as “punishing” them for their affliction.

“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm. It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”

I've long thought that one of the cruelest things about our justice system is that it barely takes into account the terrible circumstances that someone might have been through before they become a criminal.

Is the epileptic analogy really the right one, though? By that analogy, we would pre-emptively remove freedoms from people who've had a bad upbringing, or a genetic predisposition to violence. That sounds like precrime, and a very dangerous road to go down.

I would love to see a more compassionate and rehabilitation-based justice system, but I really don't think he has chosen the right analogy.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14591097 (from 12 hours ago)
Are they easier on django compared to go+framework ?
Sure, I'll take the last word. I'm confident I made a strong argument that the website is heavily integrated to the physical locations. If the website were purely informational, I agree you would have a strong argument. But the website is transactional, and the website transactions entirely replace a set of actions that would normally take place at the physical location. Would you really characterize a transaction which I initiate on the web and then complete in the physical store as not integrated?

If you still can't see that, that's ok. Winn Dixie will fix their website regardless of your curious position.

More importantly I'll add that you've been increasing patronizing and condescending with some of your remarks, and for your own sake, I hope you don't talk to people like this when you are face to face. Your last two replies come off as a cringe-worthy attempt to demonstrate intellectual superiority ("look ma, how smart I am"), or perhaps a style of speaking learned from debating club. Everything you said could have been said using simpler words, fewer words, and it would have been clearer and easier to read. If you do talk like this when you are no longer behind a computer screen, you might see an significant increase in the quality of your relationships if you tried hard to at least pretend that other people are your equals and deserve respect when you speak to them.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -- Maya Angelou
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That sounds exactly the same as the bitcoin community which basically just goes around saying USD, WU, PP, etc are dead and tries to get you to buy Bitcoin as if it's some sort of pyramid scheme.
This Orbital Fruit Roll-Up Could Be the Future of Solar Power in Space
The EU already forced e.g Microsoft to adapt to the European market. For example the "N" edition of Windows.

I can't see how this feature would be any different. If Microsoft wants to sell windows here then it will have to conform.

They could just leave the European market but it would be way more expensive.

They could also just hide the fact that they aren't conforming to standards and hope it's not discovered or leaked. The fines would be ridiculous (and ask VW whether it's a good idea).
Author here. There's a part II coming later today, focusing on how to refactor an existing codebase.
That is something I forgot to mention. Webpack is great for SPAs and not so great for classic site with lot of html files. You can have multiple entries (html files), but share common chunks between them might be difficult in some special cases.
How does the US ensure its hardware has no Chinese backdoors?
I'm so, so skeptical of the current cryptocurrency valuations.

$200 mil for a browser with no users.

$1.5 billion for a coin that was twice renamed to hide that it was premined.

$500 million for a Reddit with less than 1/10000 of Reddit's users.

$30 million for PotCoin.

$350 million for DogeCoin.

The list goes on and on. If BAT was a normal company, would someone buy them for $200 million? Would someone pay $500 million for Steemit? These valuations sound insane, but that is what people are paying.
Show HN: TETRE a Toolkit for Exploring Text for Relation Extraction
Which one?

The one with webpack? 1? 2? Now 3?

What about react? And redux. And react HMR. Oh and you probably need immutable.js if you want to use react the 'proper' way not like those fools last year. Your starter script was configured with react-router? That's a shame, because it's no longer the latest and greatest, and everyone knows you should have moved on to React Mini Router. Or is it React Universal Router now? Wait is the particular configuration of webpack in this starter script even compatible with the latest and greatest babel-loader? Hang on, you wanted to use promises? Yeah, that's another plugin for polyfill and more config that interacts with most of the above. Don't worry though, there's plenty of tutorials to get it working with webpack... Oh wait, they're all for webpack v1 and you're on v2.
I watched the Enterprise Ethereum conference. They're using private chains for scalability and privacy, but hope to migrate a lot of their work to the public chain in a couple years. They think zksnarks, proof of stake, and at least the basic sharding plan will all work.

In the meantime they're being careful to stay compatible, and contributing development resources to the public project. JP Morgan is working on an open source client that bridges private chains with public.

Even using the public chain doesn't mean they're using ETH, but lots of startups on the public chain aren't using it either; nevertheless ETH seems to be maintaining its position as the dominant Ethereum currency, and it will play a unique role in proof of stake.
It's bullshit. I'm half tempted to go back to make and just cat'ing JS files together. It was so much faster, easier, and it wasn't always constantly broken.
I think one problem a lot of people in the cryptocurrency world have is overvaluing immutability/expecting most people to demand it. Most people don't want immutable payments. If you're the consumer it is never a good deal and most people are consumers.
> Mailing lists are kind of terrible beyond a certain point of complexity. First, they lead to a lot of self-spamming, with internal conversations.

This isn't a clear argument. What do you mean?

> So at very minimum, you want something threaded like email, but stored in a single location, so storage/duplication/deletion aren't problems

Certainly, the distributed nature of email may pose problems for an organisation which stores emails for a number of its employees. Storage is cheap and backup processes de-duplicate data so using mailing lists shouldn't pose too much difficulty.
Try give up all your bad habits, today. You (or at least most) will find that our "free" will is barely free on the margin. We're able to change, but not in an instant decision, more like a chemical process - slowly, methodically, by working at our inner animal. Many can't change, just stay stuck in their habits for life, despite how free we believe we are.

> Before Descartes could proclaim "I think, therefore I am" he had to choose to make that proclamation.

Not at all. I could program a PC to say that. We believe he chose that. A determinist might say he had as much choice as a plant. A person with his characteristics, given his context, would say something like that. Now if he chose to take up gymnastics and run away with the circus, that would be more like free will. Try acting out of character. Quite hard.
Can anyone here explain why is competitive coding used so much in the hiring process. I think while basic things like asymptotic complexity or binary search are sometimes used in real world, I am still to see a problem which uses advanced competitive coding knowledge. Why base so much on a test that is almost surely never used. I am generally good at competitive coding, and I think I will be on the gaining side once I graduate, but still.
>It's like casual cycling vs racing.

If you're offering up that analogy yourself, I guess I don't understand why you're asking, "what's the point of competitive programming?"

The point of "competitive _anything_" is The Competition itself. What's the point of competition running?!? Shouldn't running be a utilitarian function of escaping an angry lion in the African savanna? Therefore, what's the point of Usain Bolt competing in sprints?!? It's the competition. Same reasons for competitions in spelling (spelling bees), cooking (Iron Chef), etc. Humans just like to compete.

You don't have to enjoy those competitions to understand why other people participate in them.
Many people consider this discussion as personal privacy vs government. However most encrypted communication is done by corps. For instance FB-Chat, Whatsapp, and Gmail probably have more communication going on than any person could do.

So in the end it's a battle corp vs government. And in that regard I don't know, but I feel more trust towards a government agency to protect me than a corp. Corps are only nice until they dominate a market. Government is always on the edge between exploiting and protecting its people since they need to be open to some level and can be replaced.
Simple question every investor should ask himself: How many Bitcoin tokens exist and how many of Etherum?
Those kinds of remarks are discouraged in all of the main Ethereum forums, with the partial exception of /r/ethtrader, which is like all cryptocurrency trading subreddits.
SQLiteProxy - https://github.com/assafmo/SQLiteProxy - which has proven itself big time in production the last couple of weeks.

A telegram bot that sends me NBA related tweets from the ESPN Stats & Info twitter - https://t.me/nbaespnstats - https://github.com/assafmo/nba-espn-stats-and-info-telegram-... - which was amazing during the 2017 playoffs and made the whole watching experience awesome for me. The channel also have around 20 followers right now, so I guess others like it to. :-)

A script that downloads all my shows every day - assafmo/DownloadMyEpisodes
I teach several competitive programming high school teams. On one hand, I hate it, for exactly some of the reasons on this thread. On the other hand, high school bands compete for trophys too... who ever thought to have competitive orchestras?

people are competitive, and competitions motivate. They aren't for everybody, but for some, they find it valuable. The competition and the coding ability are two separate life skills, forced together in the crucible of the high school education system.

I cannot criticize the motivation, or the fact that my students in high school can solve problems many professionals I know cannot. I can criticize that the competitive spirit marginalizes some of the groups we need to Encourage more.
Is Ethereum a community? I thought it's a company. As a company their strategy makes sense, and they'll probably win at some point.
What do you think about it revenue-wise? Are you pulling decent money from the MAS?
and JavaCard 1.0 wants to know what a GC is. No need to throw away perfectly fine objects.
The current president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, used to be the Polish Prime minister before he took the position in Brussels. Definitely not B team.
> If you have no free will, you can't express yourself... nothing you do will be the product of your desires. Weren't you free to choose the words you wrote in your reply?

My words are "my" choice and indeed the product of my desires, but that me and those desires are nothing more or less than the product of various mundane processes. I could never have been anything other than myself, and as such I could never have chosen any words other than these. (And if my choice of words was not determined then that just means they were random, which doesn't seem to make them any more an exercise of agency or free will - fundamental particles are able to behave just as randomly as we are).

I am a coherent existence because the causal relations from one thing to another really do go through a nexus that can be identified as me, but there's no free will there - what would it even mean to have free will?
The output for x 2 was chosen to print out \sqrt because it is possible to have x ^2 in python whose output would be x ^ 2 as expected. The idea is using to print long sqrt so advantaging this behavior. Although i haven't implemented x^2 planning to do it next week with the new improvements.
> I'm still yet to see any cases where any of these coins or tokens perform better than a centralized system(and can continue to perform better at similar utilization) or where the value of the distributed system is worth more than the cost of distributing it.

Silk road?
As a loony lefty myself, I find it really disappointing that Labour has decided to take the turns it has with regard to protecting civil liberties. This is just about my only qualm with the leftist parties in the UK; they have little or no emphasis on protecting the right to privacy, freedom of expression etc. and even the right to possess certain drawings, which was made illegal in 2009, as I remember via the proposal of a Labour MP.

Is it really so much to ask for a democratic Socialist party that favours protecting civil liberties? One would think it's in the interest of the proletariat. Oscar Wilde would be in favour of it.
Slightly off topic but I'm surprised she chose the word luring in the title. Sounds creepy.
How Technology Will Shape Tomorrow: Interview with Kartik Gada
Is this what is now PTC Perc? Don't see much references to Aonix after 2010.
What's special to emacs is that you can monkey patch all thrthe apps you're using on the go and modify them so easily.
So don't upgrade to the latest and greatest tech? Find something that works and use it just like anything else.

Is your complaint really that there's new tech out and you have the option to use it? Do you complain every time a new language releases? Do you use Django 1.2 because you don't feel like upgrading to 1.3, 1.5, 1.8?

I don't exaggerate in saying that the comments you've posted in this thread have taken more time than it would take to have a basic webpack setup.
I'm huge fan of React Router v4. It works great with webpack and it's worth upgrading. Forget about static router configuration in one component. With v4 you can do router delegation, when router component can delegate routing to another. This allows you to split your app into chunks in before impossible ways with webpack.
Just pay taxes on it like any business. Hire a CPA and CFO.
Well, Linux does originate from Scandinavia (Linus Torvalds is Finland Swedish), and it's open source, so nothing stops us from building operating systems on top of Linux. But there are however a lot of good Linux-based operating systems out there already (open source, too), and the problem would rather be what comes pre-installed with the machine you buy. If Microsoft for example can't ensure the EU that Windows doesn't contain backdoors for the NSA for example, the EU could regulate the PC market to favor, say, Ubuntu over Windows pre-installed. But I really don't think it would be a good idea to do that.

I do however think that our government agencies and militaries should be forced to run Linux. They already have a problem of being too reliant on Windows for pretty much everything.
It's unfortunate that various European countries have similar limitations on our freedom of expression and their attitude toward privacy isn't that much better.
I used both and still prefer Browserify. No configuration required, it just does what you want. Also its source code is quite short and easy to grok.