skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ETH's long-term inflation behavior is undefined because the dev team has shown their willingness to alter the consensus rules whenever they deem it necessary.
That actually does happen. And then we have the twisted situation where the economists say the economy is great, practically zero unemployment, even construction workers are scarce in California; and at the same time workforce participation rates for working-age males is the lowest it has ever been. Given how terrible idle males tend to be, this is worrisome.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-labor-force-men-201611...

People used to move to cities for the opportunities. Now it's increasingly difficult to do so. For lots of reasons we need to make it possible for people to move to the cities and thrive.
Very well said. I only use TeX over Word for writing math because emacs 1. makes writing it easy with macros and helper functions, and 2. is able to display the rendered visual snippets inline in the text. If I could not have the second feature, TeX would be borderline unusable, and this dependence on editors and tooling means it's not truly open. Can't envision what could be better for mathematical notation in plain text, though.
If you dont know who Chuck Thacker is (and why his contribution is important) - read Dealers of Lightning (https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...)
I thought the oldest may be this 13000yo bush near Riverside California? http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/22/science/la-sci-oak23...
You know, at some point negative tradeoffs kick in when you try to go do far with this idea of "making everyone do the right and honorable thing, all the time." Such as, for example, the very, very negative implications of the idea that "society" (really, the government) outright owns your internal organs.

Let's stick to education and (why hasn't been tried?) financial incentives, please.
I totally agree that zzzcpan was over-generalizing, but so are you: is it really the case that the Linpack benchmark (which uses arrays as large as memory) on the latest SGI shared-memory thing uses locks and barriers?
David Bonderman Resigns from Uber Board
Too bad the PATENTS file is still there.
If you can get east of the Cascades from Portland, that would be your surest bet. Even if the weather is expected to be clear in the Willamette Valley on the 21st, there is a risk that the marine layer could settle in and not clear by the time of the eclipse. The risk is less in August than now, in June, but it could happen.
Last mile problem. Only like 10 US cities have good public transit within the cities. Driving still wins in many high speed rail cases vs a fast train and expensive cabs or uber to get around.
We may have a way to farm organs literally and soon.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603857/crispr-may-speed-p...

It was already ten years ago that some scientists figured out how to grow a 'mini liver' in a bioreactor. They've developed the technology a lot further since then, but it still looks to be 15-20 years out for full commercialization. The CRISPR solution may do wonders for people waiting desperately on organ lists in the meantime.
Does 'reviveable' qualify as living? Some small organisms have been revived after over 100k years if I remember correctly.
Have you ever seen a total eclipse? An anular/partial one doesn't even compare to watching the sun during totality with your bare eyes.
Oh trust me, we Americans are getting tired of it too.
I feel like the rule should be fairly simple: your organization should match the ethnic and gender breakdown of the area it's offices are in.

So, for example, if Silicon Valley is 10% African Americans (I have no idea if that # if true, just using it for argument's sake), then your organization should be 10% African American. This also means your organization should be 50% women, since they are ~50% of the population. How you manage that (blind hiring, quota hiring, etc) is up to the company, and is difficult. But measuring proper diversity is really easy: you should reflect the local city's diversity. If you don't, you need to have a really good reason (and "we don't think we can be drinking buddies with them" is a really shitty reason).
A warning from a knowledgeable person without explanation is still better than no warning at all. I hope tptacek just didn't have time to post an explanation; maybe he'll find the time later.
I'm not sure you know what dynamic programming means. It's a very specific algorithmic design pattern. Those sites test much more than that one tool in the algorithms toolbox.
This is a very minor release, mainly just covering some bug fixes and deprecation warnings. It's not terribly noteworthy.
It's interesting to note that a common refrain you hear is "Bikes are the worst offenders! I see bikes running red lights all the time". If you pair it with this report, you might think your anecdotal experience doesn't jive with this report. As a biker, I would have to agree with the car drivers, a high % of bikers blatantly (and unsafely) break road rules; a much higher percentage than cars. I'd estimate it at 20-30% in SF.

Does this mean the law should be focused on bikers? No, here's why:

1) the laws should be focused on # of bad actors. There are more significantly more drivers than bikers on the road meaning:

Probability(driving unsafely | biker) > probability(driving unsafely | driver) BUT Number(bikers biking unsafely) <<< Number(drivers driving unsafely)

2) Even excluding the frequency of each mode of transportation, the risk profile is completely different. A car is a 1 ton fast moving object capable of killing 10s of people (see the London attacks). A bike is much less deadly. The legal constraints should follow the risk profile of the mode of transportation (which is also why truckers have much stricter rules and penalties while driving)

3) If you do a damage assessment (i.e # of biker deaths caused by bad drivers vs vice versa) you will see the numbers are way way higher on the driver side. So from a public policy perspective it makes sense to focus on the drivers.

That being said, I think public policy should have some focus on the bikers. I think humans expect some sense of fairness in their legal systems and when car drivers don't see rules fairly applied, you get road rage directed at pedestrians and bikers. So I'd applaud:
* Stricter enforcement of ticketing on bikers who fail to signal before turns, do not slow at busy intersections, running red lights, unsafely lane splitting , etc. I've seen so many bikers do this and it's so unsafe.
* Education requirements for BOTH drivers and bikers for getting a state id / drivers license
Not many, but some that were from the early days of the 68K line were finally put out of their misery.
I think you've got cause and effect wrong. What mostly inflates property values is the simple fact that lots of people want to live in an area. Or put it this way: the reason people want to live in the Bay Area is not because of the amazing luxury condos.

Sure, it's possible to build too many luxury condos and depress prices in that market segment, while not building enough of something else, but we certainly don't have that problem now.
What about Chrome's dev tools do you find preferable? I tend to find myself hampered by lack of functionality like easy replay of network requests, and don't spend a lot of time in Chrome's toolset for such reasons - I'd be interested to hear a different perspective.
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Your inferences about the future actions of the developers whose version of software you assume most users and miners will want to run aren't really like a hard and fast rule.

It's not possible for the rules of any coin to be set in stone, because people can run whatever software they want. The only reason that Vitalik and the Ethereum devs write the software that most Ethereum users run is because that is the software most Ethereum users want to run.

If someone developed a Bitcoin hard fork that most Bitcoin users and miners wanted to run, that would be Bitcoin, whether or not it conformed to any various ideals and philosophies that anyone has about money.
Thanks, I just picked it up. I read The Idea Factory last year and found it fascinating.
The remark was discussed earlier in this (flagged to death) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548761
About the Team: https://nimiq.com/team/

we are talking about a new cryptocurrency, blockchain, peer net mining system as well as transaction protocol all built on WebRTC and WebSockets?

exactly!
It always amuses me how rapidly discussions about life (define life, what constitutes a different species or organism) end up at ancient philosophical discussions. In this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus is just a breath away! (In this case: would those cells be a billion or two years old? Have all of their atoms been replaced at this point? Does it matter?)
I recently started using Tails so for security reasons coughbackdoorwindowsioscough,.. and found that it worked surprisely well. It has a disk utility, liber office, and the drivers even worked for my wireless dongle! Kudos to the Tails team!
It takes a certain kind of idiot to make a sexist remark (even as a joke) in a meeting about how your company is going to tackle its terrible problem with sexism.
How many cars do you have driving and how many bicycles? If the number of cars is greater than 47x the number of bikes, might completely flip that outcome.

I just read the article about statistics errors including base rate fallacy on HN today, worth a read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14545089
Roochnik is surely more familiar with the works of Plato than I am, but his thesis that "Plato wouldn't conceive of ethical philosophy as techne" flies in the face of much of what Plato and his school explicitly says. To Plato, things like goodness and virtue are real, just as much or moreso than the nose on your face. Knowing about them is then every bit as much of a technical problem as is knowing the distance from the earth to the sun. Many of Plato's works explicitly draw parallels between proof construction in geometry and proof-construction in ethical philosophy, and for that matter, the neoplatonist Plotinus makes much use of the concept of a "sage," namely someone who actually has figured out moral truths once and for all, perfectly (although, I don't know off the top of my head whether Plato also believed in sages, nor do I know if there's a well-accepted opinion on whether Plotinus thought that a sage ever had or would exist.)

Certainly, bright modern-day scholars attributing beliefs to older thinkers that the thinkers themselves outright deny is a thing that happens, and is a healthy part of respectable humanities research. E.g., people who talk about Nietzsche being nihilist or anti-semitic, who left us so many diatribes against nihilists and anti-semites. The humanities wouldn't be interesting if people took their source materials at their word! But its worth keeping in mind how counter-intuitive Roochnik's claims are. (And to his credit, he mentions as much several times.)

I also wonder whether his central piece of evidence, namely that Plato wrote dialogues rather than treatises, isn't projecting relatively-modern writing sensibilities onto an ancient Greek. Plato could have had all sorts of reasons for writing in dialogue-form, not least of which could have simply been the tradition of philosophers in Athens in that particular century; to my knowledge, no other philosophical writers in his place and time have been preserved, so we have no idea what his literary context was like. But, perhaps there's some really clever counter to that concern in Roochnik's books, who knows?

Also, tangental thought- the concept of "Talmudic reading" is fascinating, ut are there any works of literature that would justify that sort of confidence?
My plan is to take a long weekend, drive to Idaho (near Boise or Sun Valley). I've been thinking of renting an RV but it may be too late.
As a long time HW FPGA guy, I think you might want to take a look at the C projects again. I don't know whether Go has any advantages but the concept of a higher level language for development is being used by the major FPGA companies.

Both Xilinx and Altera have High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools. These use C or C++. If you know how FPGA work is generally done, you can separate the hype from the reality and you can understand how to use it for a real application.

The vendors have lots of libraries for IP. You don't write RTL from scratch. It would take too long to verify. You tie IP together. It can be DSP or generic maths or a video codec thing. The VHDL is done for you.

You write your algorithm in C++ in a particular format using compatible data types and calling HLS libraries. You run it all in C++ first and make sure it does exactly what you want in SW. This is where the algorithm is developed.

THEN you fire up the HLS tool and a couple of hours of synthesizing later (lol) you get to load a bitstream onto a FPGA to verify it.

Of course there can be problems in that translation. It takes good engineering to dive down into the design and find the issues.

My current work does not touch any HLS. I am doing the VHDL stuff. But I know the algorithms all started from SW first. It always does. For the bulk of the work, verification, it is somewhat irrelevant whether it is manually converted to RTL or done via tools.
I've seldom had a cyclist stop for me at a crosswalk (when crossing), when they either have a stop sign, or I had the green but there were no cars in the opposite direction. It seems as though they felt I "got in their way" meanwhile as a pedestrian I have the right of way and I should not have to tie my crossing to avoid their path.
I wonder where the pressure came from that actually made him resign. His firm?
Given a sufficient device it's actually a fairly decent format. The problem is that that device has to relatively closely correspond to printed paper sizes, within a factor of about 75% - 125%.

What PDF offers is a consistent, space-persistent, formatted output. For reading longer works, it actually does matter to me where a passage appears on a page, or within a work. Spatial memory is important that way.

I read a lot of material, in a lot of different formats: paged text (manpages, console-mode browsers), formatted HTML, ePubs, DJVU, image-scanned books.

If I'm reading on a largish (9-10") tablet, PDF in one-page-up format is actually really good. Fills the screen, is almost always suitably readable. Scans of old books (thank you, Internet Archive and Google) in particular are a delight -- there's something about reading a century-plus-old library copy with markings and (hopefully not too much) marginalia, as well as the original typesetting and images.

The main problem I have with fluid formats ultimately is their fluidity. I realise that that's perverse, and that there are times when it's a real benefit, but again, I can't seem to get away from that spatial memory thing.

If I'm extracting content from works, I prefer source (LaTeX, Markdown, DocBook, etc.). Though that's another story.

The ability to spin out formats on demand would be an ideal. I'm looking into ways of doing that.
When I saw this I swear I though it was a news story from the Onion
Do they follow semantic versioning? If so, does that mean there have been 15 releases with major breaking changes?
I just bought a new kindle and agree with you.
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IBM's MDA cards didn't support direct pixel addressing, which is one of the reasons I had a Hercules Graphics Card (original from 1982).

I spent way too much time trying to get various games to work with SIMCGA. Not only did it cause a massive slowdown (single-digit fps - or worse - was common) as it copied writes to VGA addresses into Hercules address space, the conversion from (e.g.) 320x200@16 onto a display that only supported 720x348@1 created usually required dropping/doubling lines at non-integer ratios, skewing the aspect ratio, and other nasty hacks[1].

I was very happy, years later, when I finally upgrade to a Trident TVGA9000B.

[1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-To4gB6TtJJs/Uwa-qlr0_rI/AAAAAAAAA9...
Many studies show women are better at verbal communication:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-women-really-...

Are we all _sure_ he meant it as a sexist joke?
The funny thing is, open source projects scramble to offer the most permissive license possible. It's either BSD/MIT or go home. I've seen people shit on projects that use copyleft (GPL, even LGPL, etc).

Sounds a little schizophrenic to complain about the (lack of) money at the same time?

I personally think this may be connected to the "academic" origins and mindset of much OSS. Everything's "free" in that world, which can make a software's transition into the world with real economic constraints and sustainability challenges somewhat painful.
5 minutes of internet searching should find my email based on my username and bio :)
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I feel like HN alone is already too much in contributing too information overload. I'm often trimming my news sources.

That being said, I'd just check 2-3 reputable newspapers
America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding
I think the cost of locks is so high, that even some primitive runtime zero-copying mechanism won't add significant overhead. After all, if you have to do something on another core, you have to copy it there, it's not really a physical shared memory.
Explain why making organ donation after death an opt-out process would have any negative tradeoffs, let alone a net negative effect.
>"Can I write functions that generate and consume closures?"

Could you elaborate on why closures are ill-suited to FPGAs? Thanks.
There isn't a shortage of engineers, there's a shortage of highly-experienced engineers that won't need training. Companies would rather wait months to poach an employee trained by another company than take up the task of training entry-level employees themselves.

This is just my personal opinion being a recent college grad, but I feel like if companies were really so desperate for new engineers they wouldn't put multiple-years experience requirements on all of their entry-level job postings.
Someone password cracking with 8 GTX 1080's isn't likely worried about the electricity costs associated with said cracking.
The remark:

At an Uber staff meeting earlier in the day, Arianna Huffington, another Uber board member, said one woman on a board often leads to more women joining a board. Mr. Bonderman responded “that it’s much more likely to be more talking.”

Seems ironic that Arianna's own site posted this:

Biological Evidence May Support Idea That Women Talk More Than Men, Study Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/women-talk-more-tha...

Is it not possible to say anything anymore without someone being offended?
This is as specious as "well of course vaccines don't work--pharma doesn't make money if you don't get sick!" By this logic, any profession built on solving a problem can't be trusted. Car broken? Don't take it to a mechanic--they'll just make sure it breaks again! Free-market competition (even the regulated kind) solves this conflict of interests.

"Trillion dollar diversity and inclusion industry?" That's ~1/18th of the entire US GDP--which firms, etc., do you include in this sector of the economy? I can't think of a single example.

This is why it's hard to reason through these topics. Either I'm told it's verboten to even discuss the implementation details of equal-opportunity initiatives, or I'm told it's some vast global conspiracy master-minded by Pam in HR who, having apparently learned the secrets to controlling the national discourse, can find no better application for that secret than keeping her job in HR.
Melanotan II?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II
They switched from 0.14 to 15.0 to reflect react being production ready. See here: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-version...
Maybe not locks and barriers specifically, but I'd be shocked if it's using message passing, particularly because of the overhead of copying. If anyone has evidence to the contrary I'd be happy to hear it.
And the sentence before that is Despite gun owners’ increased perception of safety, research by Kellermann et al. (1992, 1993, 1995) describes higher rates of suicide, homicide, and the use of weapons involved in home invasion in the homes of gun owners.

I suppose the problem is that I read In fact the CDC report commissioned by Obama after Sandy Hook showed that there is in fact a protective effect (obviously) from firearms possession. and expected evidence showing that the benefits were greater than the risks, rather than a simple citation of research claiming there is a benefit.
Are those intermediaries also accessible for anyone and decentralized? Is there an open infrastructure upon which anybody can build web applications with nothing but static hosting?
Probably why the Excel team built a mini flight simulator right within the spreadsheet itself?!? :) [0]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM
Wait... isn't the entire purpose of a board to talk in board meetings? They certainly aren't driving the cars.
Quebec and Manitoba have rates as low as 0.03$CAD/kWh (~0.023 $USD), or about 0.07$USD/hr for this gpgpu system.

Servethehome is including colocation rental costs (which also means colocation power cost, typically 3x utility markup) in their cost-per-hour estimate here.
Ask HN: What makes a good Vlog?
I just moved to Cambridge, MA to start a masters at Harvard. I'm up to some interesting things, and I'd love to share through a youtube channel!
If you searched for a contradictory HuffPo article for everything Arianna Huffington said, she would be the most ironic person on earth.
But don't financial incentives lead to thieves stealing your organs?
Are you sure you still have a reservation???

There were some big news stories here in Oregon about this. People made reservations literally a year in advance, only to have the hotels cancel them once they figured out why people were booking!

The only good news is some hotels may have done people a favor. Those were on the Oregon coast, in the Lincoln City and Newport areas, where, even in the middle of August, there's a good chance of overcast skies (marine air).
How else are we supposed to face the magpies?
Yup, intrinsically worthless tokens engineered to have better than market risk adjusted, liquidity adjusted real returns compared to real productive investment will always be unstable and fluctuate wildly as they get more popular. This is a direct result of physical limits of production. As people hoard worthless tokens, their price increases and people hoard them even more instead of investing in real businesses with real production capacity. Eventually production capacity drops which means there is less things to buy with all the tokens. Stockpiled tokens chasing few goods means prices will rise (tokens will lose value) potentially suddenly as people try to get rid of them all at the same time before they're completely worthless.
The cycle then repeats.
When savings or financial promises are insufficiently tied to future production or to accumulation of real goods, it's always a ponzi scheme.
I can't find it now, but there's a video of one of Ben Horowitz's lectures where he says one benefit of hiring women is that they communicate more openly and effectively, at least with each other. If a woman feels marginalized by another woman during a meeting, she's more likely to communicate that and solve the problem, rather than holding onto it.

I don't know if this is true or not, but since there was no backlash over this, it goes to show that context and tone influences what's seen as disparaging.