skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't ask me, but I am compelled to answer because its an interesting question, and, well, Russian is my native language.

Till the age of eleven, I was essentially speaking only Russian. They did teach us some pretty rudimentary English at school, just enough to ask for directions in a foreign country.

Then, my family moved to Canada, and I had to learn French. It took about 2 years to attain a native-level proficiency. Then, I learned English as a "second language" (actually third, of course) here in Canada.

French is the language I use most. Thus, my largest and most precise vocabulary is in French, and this is obviously the easiest language to express myself.

However, I don't feel constrained by a language while talking/writing in English or Russian. Worst case scenario, I have to turn to Google to translate some precise French word when the English equivalent does not come fast enough.

In general, I think in whatever language I am using at the moment, and the best ideas can come in any of those three languages.
Well, if money laundering it legitimate to you...
This is a public discussion forum. You can criticize my response. You cannot criticize me for responding. I certainly didn't ask for you to respond to me, and yet you did, which is perfectly appropriate.
Buying a bunch of disk space isn't impossible. What I don't have is unlimited downloads.
> Many 40+ year olds have families or other life obligations outside of work

Why is this a (seemingly) common belief? It seems backwards to me. I had a lot more obligations outside of work in my 20's and 30's when my kids were young than after 40. I'm in my early 50's, and I have more free time now than ever.
Central banks: fine, they are the state. It's a problem when private banks are doing this (they are) and when central banks are doing it and using it to purchase assets to bail out in the main the rich.
> Each time people lose faith in them they develop new ideas and arguments for why they are the future.

You mean just like after the 1929 stock market crash we just improved stock trading? Or after dotcom crash we became more serious about evaluating usefulness of services? Or after various mortgage issues we introduced controls for known issues?

I feel like it's similar to any other huge system. There are issues with it. We prevent some behaviours and provide incentives for others. We don't lose faith in stock market and burn it to the ground.
Challenges are mainly based on js and/or captchas these days, and are required on countless sites.

In such a situation your access is prevented and the usefulness of a noscript tag is limited.
>A questionnaire study directed at a selection of employers shows that there are three characteristics that the employers consider to be important and are worried that employees over the age of 40 have begun to lose: the ability to learn new things, being adaptable and flexible and being driven and taking initiative.

Open question - is there any research on to what degree these three worries are true?
Blockchain is perhaps the most economically important invention of the last 500 years. Right now the whole space is worth less than $100B, and it's going to be worth tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars.

Obviously valuations have far outpaced the present usefulness of these technologies, but because the pie is so enormous it would be irrational not to overpay. Right now prices are too out-of-whack with reality so it's inevitable that there will be a correction, but it's entirely understandable why this is happening.

It's sad though that most people on HN have now apparently become the older generation representing the entrenched interests, rather than being the disruptors.
It isn't an OoO, at least, not a 224 window OoO. 7-wide can simply mean that it has the decode and execution resources of 7 per cycle. It's a tablet core, they don't have a 7-wide OoO core in there.

https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc26...

Also, the ee380 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM
Ah, I didn't realise they'd changed their mind. Thanks.
Armh was the stock. They were bought by SoftBank though it was a good ride....
Absurdity of the action has no correlation to profitability of said action.
Given my Surface Book got a 1/10 repair-ability score on ifixit... I dont think they'll just replace the chip :-P
I suspect it's because many people are having kids later in life nowadays due to career, education, circumstance, priorities, happenstance, etc.

I personally know tons of people in their late 30s and early 40s having their first child, or maybe their second.
That's true, I'm not sure how they account for dev time spent on community videos. But at least on the level of the video equipment and the staff who record and edit the shows, they're not spending out of money donated for game development.

I don't know about untextured models and unfinished animations driving up costs. At one point they showed a demo with early draft facial animations and got slammed for it (The Morrow Tour), and since then they've been hesitant to show things that aren't near finished. Stuff's getting to that level of visual polish either way, I think this is more likely to impact whether they publish early drafts of visual features, rather than having an impact on their actual development process.

Not that we don't see progress on stuff though. The procedural planets have been repeatedly featured in videos since back since the first teaser (Pupil to Planet) when it had a single material covering the entire planet. More recent demos are much more detailed and have shown what's slated for release in alpha 3.0, including the Levski landing area.

Other things like animations do get shown in untextured demo levels, and I remember recently seeing one with a person putting a box on a shelf and clipped his arm through a solid object. So they're not total perfectionists, but they're not 100% open about in-progress features either. If you show something too early and it changes significantly before release, somebody's bound to get upset about it.
This reminds me of the off topic question I always had about YC - "if it is an incubator for fungus - is it valuable?"
Would it make sense for companies like Amazon or Alibaba to print their own currencies when they are in the business of selling everything under the sun?

Would they be saving on transaction costs?

I believe most of the money that is ending up in Bitcoin exchanges is laundered in the first place. Also, there is a whole lot more that is getting laundered everyday than Bitcoin being mined. That would mean Bitcoin will keep going up in value. Gold should correspondingly fall.
True - If you're working in tech, you're already invested in tech, even if you've never bought stock at all.

Heck - if you have spent any effort or time learning tech skills, you're already invested in tech. A penniless first-year comp sci student is heavily invested in tech.
If you believe that Papers Please is implying that what you do in the game is what you should do in real life then you misinterpreted the creator's intentions to an absurdly extreme degree which I find hard to believe.

Do you believe that MASH teaches you that war is overall positive? Was your takeaway from Requiem for a Dream that injecting heroin is a good idea?
The main method is to create a cryptocurrency using Ethereum's ERC20 standard. That way it can use the Ethereum blockchain and is compatible with a lot of wallets and applications.

You can get a code template from here:

https://github.com/ConsenSys/Tokens
Are the files categorized? While I can't mirror the whole thing, I'm more than willing to archive the categories that are relevant to my interests.

I think the single point of failure issue can be easily remedied if people could easily back specific parts of libgen/scihub.
Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pure garbage
Why not just post the finalized version of the manuscript instead of the journal's typeset version? It's the same content, and most journals seem to be ok with this practice -- are preprint versions against APA's copyright policy in some way?
Most of this applies equally well to data science, natural science, or social science with "statistics, probability, and machine learning" swapped in for "cryptography".
My memorabilia of RadioShack, https://imgur.com/a/BolEA

I even worked for them in Nashville before grad school. Sold a lot of cell phones, but my favorite was selling a karaoke machine to Harry Connick, Jr.
Fascinating though your unproven legal theory is, I'm a lot more worried about the immediate reality of how to deal with the problem of white supremacists in and out of the police force. Obviously getting a restraining order against them isn't going to do the trick.
"I believe most of the money that is ending up in Bitcoin exchanges is laundered in the first place."

Do you have any evidence for that because I'd say that is almost certainly blatantly false.
you are correct about this, but I think what you frame as a negative is really a positive. I think the VC model is one of the only examples funding I've seen where really innovative, experimental and risky projects can even get a tiny bit of traction (the other example is a government grant).

I think the public is most likely risk adverse, and will be burnt with 100 startups promising the moon and failing.
I debugged lots of memory corruption errors in my time working on AIX kernel stuff. Most of the ones I got to work on did indeed happen at a page boundary [1]. I think there is a pretty simple reason for this: "pages" are both the logical unit size of memory the kernel's allocator hands out, and the unit size that the hardware is capable of addressing in most cases. Therefore, when something at the kernel level is done incorrectly, it often references someone else's page.

It's also possible for a _byte_ offset to be wrong, and these types of errors need not occur at a page boundary. Useful things to do with a raw memory dump with this kind of corruption (at least in AIX kernel):

- Identify the page containing the corruption, and find all activity concerning the physical frame in the traces.

- Try to reverse engineer the bad data. Often times, there are pointers you can follow. You would have to manually translate the virtual address to physical frames, but that's pretty simple to do, both for user space and kernel space (in our case, it was always in kernel space, which was 64-bit and just used a simple prefix).

From there, you just have to be crafty and thorough in following the breadcrumbs and either identifying the bug in code, or at least who should investigate next.

In my original post, note that the corruption was on a _CPU cache_ boundary (128 bytes in POWER). IIRC, the containing page was allocated and pinned [2] for a longer time than the trace buffer tracked (it's been a few years, though).

[1] To make things fun, AIX and POWER supports multiple page sizes- 4K, 64K, 16MB, 16GB. Hardware also has the ability of promoting / demoting between 4K and 64K for in-use memory... lots of fun :-)

[2] AIX is a pageable kernel. If kernel code can't handle a page fault, it needs to "pin" the memory.

... note that any of this can be really outdated, it's been almost a decade since I was an expert in this stuff :-)

(Edit: formatting... how do you make a pretty bulleted list on HN??)
I'm reminded of a certain kind of irony I've faced multiple times in my life: people who think they are more "socially intelligent" than I finding the most awkward and graceless way of telling me they think I'm not as skilled at being comfortable and graceful as themselves.
I am amazed that in 2017, there is still people qualifying Bitcoin or Ethereum of ponzi schemes. Crypto currencies have a lot of problems (technical, economical, philosophical, ICO are insanes) but saying they are ponzi schemes is plain wrong. And it just takes 5 minutes of reading on Ponzi Schemes signs and basic knowledges of how those currencies work to understand why.
I ported this to bash since I have a chromebook w/o perl and (as for right now) the fs is read-only, so I just piped the script to it and sure enough my brand-new Samsung Chromebook Pro appears to be vulnerable, though apparently patchable.

Details and if you want the script I link to it from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/hardware-hacking/chromebook... - don't judge my shitty bash skills.

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I kind of like having a selection to choose from, like restaurants. I even still like the older, less-polished ones from time-to-time. (As long as the food checks out, which is pretty easy to handle.)

Same with online retailing – I like the choice and the good feeling that Amazon has to keep trying to earn my business. I don't want too much Amazon homogeny for the same reasons I wouldn't want too much, say, Walmart homogeny. Or Ford dominating autos.
It might be #3 behind the transistor and the internal combustion engine.
The main driver right now in the US is that electricity produced from wind receives a federal production tax credit for each megawatt-hour delivered during the first 10 years of a wind farm's life. During low-demand times a wind farm can pay e.g. $10/MWh for customers to take the surplus power and still earn $14/MWh net from the tax credit (presently $24/MWh). Some states also offer per-MWh credits that can drive negative prices similarly to the federal PTC.

Solar PV power does not directly drive negative prices via the federal PTC in the same way as wind. Solar presently gets a 30% federal investment tax credit up front on the costs of constructing a solar farm. This tax incentive structure doesn't encourage generation during unprofitable times like the PTC. But a solar farm can curtail its output nearly instantaneously and at no risk to plant equipment. The same is not true of e.g. coal and nuclear generators; those facilities ramp output up and down significantly slower, and cannot generate at arbitrarily low fractions of nominal power. A cold start can take 15 hours for a legacy coal plant, longer for nuclear. Full shutdowns also impose extra costs due to equipment thermal stresses during restart. Slowly-ramping coal and nuclear plants may continue to generate negative-profitability electricity at some times of day because they can't adjust fast enough to be back at full output during profitable hours otherwise and because cycling reduces equipment lifetime.

"Impact of Load Following on Power Plant Cost and Performance: Literature Review and Industry Interviews" has a lot of good details on the impact on fossil plants from making additional adjustments:

https://www.netl.doe.gov/File%20Library/Research/Energy%20An...

One thing that really stands out, reading this 5 years later, is that measures to make coal more efficient (like integrated gasification combined cycle plants, IGCC, or going from subcritical to supercritical steam) also make it even less flexible. Plant operators will continue to extract what value they can from coal plants that are already constructed. But there's no plausible combination of factors on the horizon to encourage the building of advanced/new coal plants, even if Trump remains president for 8 years.
Welp. Guess it's freelancing and minimum wage shift-work until I die, then.
That would make Uber’s retention of this guy suspect; they knew he and Otto had stolen google IP and still acquired.
I wonder how hash tables are "underrated". They're probably _the_ data structure, if there is one.
https://www.torus.sh/docs/latest/commands/access-control

They seem to have pretty serious access control (Orgs, Teams) and a Policy based access control system.
An Act relative to the digital right to repair
Minor point - you can also be an accredited investor if you "have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year." [1]

That feels somewhat more "meritocratic" to me.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_Sta...
"An underrated data structure"

Uh......
200 years ago in the U.S. regional banks printed their own currency. The constitution does not create a common US currency, although we have been operating as if it does.

Will a non-nation state be able to generate enough credibility to run their own currency that lasts a lifetime?

I don't know be I think it's interesting to watch.

And if they do, it may force central banks into a corner by limiting their ability to print money (i.e., lowering the value of your currency by printing money will cause people to move their money to the alternative currency, leaving you with inflation).
A quote from BulgariaSat (launched 2 days ago):

“People don’t realize that, for small countries and small companies like us, without SpaceX, there was no way we would ever be able to even think about space."

"With them, it was possible. We got a project. I think, in the future, it’s going to be even more affordable because of reusability.”
It is not Monopoly money, it is...

>decks out Monopoly money with a bunch of smart-sounding technological bells and whistles

...ephemeral hyper-velocity funny money!
I just did a quick test on my comp with python 2.7.13, perl 5.24, perl 6, ruby 2.3.3 and php 7 and they all worked.
I would like to make an appeal to the YC community: please reach out and help guide those involved in this rapidly advancing phenomenon.

There is a huge amount of instantly-deployable capital in Ethereum and Bitcoin, held by individuals now seeking ways to put it to work. Many technologists will naturally make use of this energy, but so will BS artists and people under the influence of hubris.

I am making this appeal because it is irresponsible to stand by and watch so much financial energy be directed at projects without appropriate constraint. Many firms funded by ICOs (or soon to be) have qualified leaders and developers and are developing great ideas, but IMO many are also raising too much money for their own good.

What may be needed to guide these rockets to their full potential are maturity, mentorship, and the careful application of jurisprudence and principles of accounting.
"this is a data structure that is at the guts of basically every python object. Classes are dicts. Modules are dicts. Packages are probably dicts. Don't worry though, it's underrated!"

@_@
>Blockchain is perhaps the most economically important invention of the last 500 years. Right now the whole space is worth less than $100B, and it's going to be worth tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars.

That could eventually turn out to be true. But that's not inconsistent with all these new coins that pop-up from nowhere being problematic.
It's funny you should mention Webvan. In 1999 grocery delivery was a hot market, then in 2002 it was completely and obviously stupid, now in 2017 it's hot again. Cryptocurrency is a bubble now, but will the world change such that it actually makes sense in 20 years?
Money laundering, in my opinion, is not only legitimate, but neccessary, given that e.g. European banking transactions end up via SWIFT or implants at the NSA headwuarters.

In addition many governments try to move citizens to "electronic payment" (ranging from online banking to NFC credit cards). The reason is once again tracking, and as could be seen during the financial crisis it's easy to just confiscate money when it's just numbers in a mainframe vs actual piles of cash in my home safe.
Right? Sometimes I wonder about sticking around in this business.
ILP == instruction level parallelism?

If so, it's on pseudo-vectorial instructions made by concatenating many opcodes on the same instruction word.
I don't think they claim it performs better than OoO, just that it uses less power.
The whole point of the blockchain is that you can't forge currency without controlling 50%+ of the computing power in the network.
"Pneumonia" in the USA tends to sound like "ne-monia"
This is becoming really astonishing. It's more and more fitting the quote “They did not know it was impossible so they did it”

More like, they know it is possible so they did it.
Winning your first bet doesn't make the others +EV even if you cash out your initial investment. That's not how EV works.
See the cause of your bad Breath, Remove this and solve the problem
If you go to https://coinmarketcap.com/ you will see they have info on over 600 individual crypto currencies. 99% of them are going to be worthless long term. Best case scenario a handful of them survive. I'd be extremely skeptical of any coin that distributes coins via an ICO or "pre-sale" instead of via competitive mining like Bitcoin.
It was actually working with Ruby and dollar/cents amounts for Stripe that led to this frustration, haha. Thanks for the insight!
Of course it's not remotely feasible to capture even a significant fraction of that solar energy.
Bubbles are inevitable. If you want to see a great historical example, read up on the South Sea Company of the 18th century. The charlatans are the same throughout time, just varying their methods slightly
Whats the logic here? Are applicants >40 generally worse performers?
I was at the EE380 talk :). It's amazing how few people show up to EE380 these days.

Yeah, Denver is in-order superscalar and it's a JIT but it isn't VLIW. Sad to say, they've tried JITing to in-order superscalar as well. They had a design win with the Nexus but even now NVidia is switching over to RISC-V for Falcon.

It is not from lack of effort that the JIT approach hasn't really worked. It's competitive but not outstanding. Denver, from the EE380 talk, thrives on bad bloated code. It's not so good on good code. This is not a winning combination.
If you have access to some cash, it's not as hard as you might think.

I worked with a guy in CompUSA in college who was literally a retail salesdude, who was on the phone all day trying to get some deal together to lease planes. He ended up hustling a deal with a travel agency his girlfriend worked for (this was the mid 90s) and getting his dad and a few investors to buy into the plane charter.

I thought he was just crazy, but he ended up running charters for at least a half dozen trips to the Carribean, and made a good buck on it.

Granted that he was doing charters, not starting an airline. But it was much easier than I had imagined.
> Later when I did read SICP, I didn't like it. Maybe that was like reading the book after seeing the movie. Dunno, but I didn't like it.

Which introductory CS books did you enjoy? I still love my copy of Patterson and Hennessy but it is dry compared to SICP. To someone who had only ever programmed in C++ before 61A, SICP felt like an adventure.

> As an aside, there was a whole subculture of students who read nothing but just did the HW and worked past tests and sets. They did amazingly well.

Yep. Sadly this has only become more common with the rapid growth of the major. Most of my friends were brilliant but they didn't love EECS. If they had been 10 years older they probably would have majored in math or physics but they felt pressured to study something that would get them a job. They were able to do well just by studying old tests.

We would only get old tests from HKN but many students were somehow able to illegally obtain them. Cheating has only become more rampant and more sophisticated -- the department is going to have to address it at some point instead of sticking their head in the sand.
What's valuable isn't the transistor and the internal combustion engine themselves per say, but rather the new networks they enable: rail, roads, informations, etc.

Blockchain is also a new network, and the math for analyzing its value is the same as the math for analyzing the value of any other network. In this case I would say that it's going to be the most valuable new network since the rise of global shipping during the age of sail.
I think when the author says "underrated", what they mean is "I didn't realize how important this is". Hash tables are used everywhere, by everyone, for a lot of things.

Maybe they don't give it enough time in school for people to realize it is the king of practical software development.