skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember when Bitcoin was at $1,000 for the first time. The Economist ran a story and it was discussed nearly everywhere. The price fell by 30%+ after that. A few years later it was at $3,000.

It's normal that markets crash when everyone starts talking about how high they are. Once booming stockmarkets make it to the front page of newspapers it's often the end of the boom. It wakes people up who realise they still have stocks (or bitcoin in this case) and quickly sell it.

So the crash after hitting $3,000 was somewhat expected, given the attention in the media. Doesn't mean that it won't be strong over the next 2-3 years.
I used some bitcoin in place of a wire transfer last week. It worked well. Amazing what air can do these days!
I think that the plan is to store the comments forever []. For an official answers from the mods send an email to hn@ycombinator.com

[] Or at least until a big server crash deletes all of them, or YC goes out of business. Anyway, assume that Google, Bing, and a few more people have a backup.
I can't make heads or tails of what your criticism is. Algebraic types are wonderful, I find it difficult to code in a language without them. I'd hardly call it 'junk'.
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I am running virtual machines with iSCSI storage over 802.11an... It's fast enough even for that. (Well, there's latency, but good enough for my development boxes.)
Do you have a URL demonstrating this, please?
I get what you're saying. Without being overly pedantic, the following are my concerns:

1) Assuming there are 265 working days in a year, extra 12 days of leave would reduce the work value done by 4.5%. Would this somehow lead to discrimination?

2) Can you really quantify the amount of distress a person is in during their periods? Some women might be in quite the pain and some might be pretty much ok. Again, this differs from person to person. Under this assumption, is it ok to give all the women a day off?

3) How would you know that the person utilizing this is actually physically capable of menstruating? Eg: People who went through Hysterectomy or Oophorectomy and or any other medical reasons.
Interestingly, I heard about the stunt and idea when it went viral before; and I read this article. I have no idea who the politician is.
All of this has happened before with 'AR' for television. The eventual niche was just a few election/budget politics shows rather than day-to-day broadcasting. A few things that were hard to do with 'AR' for television - getting feet to stay consistently on the ground in the one place and not float or drift with camera moves. The reality of solving this was to use a close up shot where the feet were not shown or to pan very carefully with a camera on a tripod.

It is these finer technical points that stop the technology getting too far and prevent you doing really cool stuff with 'AR'. This of course does not matter if it is some effect on Snapchat, however, if you really are trying to get someone to appear as if they really are 'walking on the moon' then sliding feet makes the result look like bad chromakeying and not the 'AR' desired.
This doesn't appear to support the PHP built in functions, and is more of a tongue in cheek exercise.

Someone did take roughly the approach you're describing. A VM in JavaScript that groks php bytecode: https://github.com/niklasvh/php.js
I would not say ES6 and ES7 are "proof" that ES5 is bad.
I wouldn't characterize the activities between banks underwriting an IPO as an auction, probably closer to a negotiation [0].

This [1] is a well-written prose from Matt Levine on the role of underwriters in working with Snap prior to their IPO.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-15/uber-is-r...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-27/banks-tha...
Thanks for sharing that. That means a lot to us here at RescueTime, and would have meant the world to Joe.
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Think about how much inaccuracy and nonsense you can point out (because you are an expert) any time you see/read mainstream reporting on technology. Now extrapolate that to other areas of reporting. It's hard to know what to believe or who's credible.
I do whatever I want at work and I haven’t been fired yet
A rather stupid statistic in my opinion. Of course we could save the planet by banning all car manufacturing and power plants. Doesn't mean that this is a serious option. It's not important who produces emissions. It's important where emissions can be reduced and how we can achieve this.
"Gamed" should be the word.
The short answer to this is that if they don't, they have to give it away for free[1]. Plus this has received so much press that this will be made to work…

[1] : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/elon-musk-is-the-100-d...
Pressure on startups is building with IPOs and sales stalled in a funk
Something that is interesting is that it's not only a translation system but also it's own API which looks much nicer. It also supports Cuda and OpenCl it looks like.
That's impressive. We run into not well supported features and bugs frequently. It's probably a side effect of our workloads.

Right now we're evaluating GitLab CI and it looks like the way forward (for us).
That can get especially crazy during construction, and after new roads open.
Yes: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/caching/
That makes sense, thanks. Wim not clear how to break up the gems for different environmenta into different directories.
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The problem is that updating plugins very often breaks stuff.
The Decline of the Rogue Employee: Utilizing Behavioral Trends
The design of this page made me wonder if the product is real. It really, really needs to be improved (difficult to read, looks like something from the 90's).
Good vote spamming business will be completely automated. They'll have accounts in reserve pool, with ability to spin up thousands more in a couple minutes. Most likely they make a couple hundred accounts a day and prime them with VA's with real content & votes with the intention of burning them with fake votes once aged appropriately.

If you run a website and you're getting spammed, the worst thing you can do it also ban the accounts as this give spammers feedback that the account is no longer valid to use and they'll rotate it out. Best thing you can do is /dev/null the account. To the user it will look like account is working as expected, but on the back end anything they do doesn't actually do anything. Harder for spammer to know when that account is burned. This way they'll continue to use it, and you can use this data to find related accounts and /dev/null them as well.
Good vote spamming business will be completely automated. They'll have accounts in reserve pool, with ability to spin up thousands more in a couple minutes. Most likely they make a couple hundred accounts a day and prime them with VA's with real content & votes with the intention of burning them with fake votes once aged appropriately.

If you run a website and you're getting spammed, the worst thing you can do it also ban the accounts as this give spammers feedback that the account is no longer valid to use and they'll rotate it out. Best thing you can do is /dev/null the account. To the user it will look like account is working as expected, but on the back end anything they do doesn't actually do anything. Harder for spammer to know when that account is burned.
Title should include "for healthy young adults" as in the study:

"The researchers note limitations in the study, most importantly that they only looked at young, healthy people. Brain-training games may still prove useful for aging adults or people suffering from addiction or unhealthy behaviors, the researchers caution."
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An element of volatility is time, so Crypto is not reallt comparable to Gold..
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"looses"

Enough.
I've had the same experience as you. Both windows and mac have bugs (or the software/drivers they use) and it is by far easier (for me) to debug and fix the windows problems than diagnosing that darned pinwheel of death. By far the most annoying experience is waiting for the laptop to be responsive after opening it up. Either the screen stays dark or the mouse/keyboard do nothing or both. I've learned to just open and go get a drink or something while it does "its thing"

I've been trying for the last few days just to make a bootable osx install flash drive so I can wipe and do a clean install before selling yet I can't get the thing to boot from it no matter which keys I hold during boot or resetting the PRAM. I'm sure its something stupid I did (am doing), but I would have been long past this step if it were a windows machine.
Date: July 6, 2017

This is the announcement from last week that was heavily discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715679 (153 points/76 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14723853 (206 points/166 comments)
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That'd be extra weird considering Justin Timberlake was a major investor in Myspace...
I had a ton of legos growing up, and it was always that—legos. Though the "proper" pronunciation may be singular with a plural noun (e.g., bricks, pieces, sets, etc.), the vernacular has most certainly evolved to include the general "legos".
Other metrics indicate could be just that it's holiday season. In the northern hemispheres, people are outdoors & enjoying the summer.

This coincides with the sudden drop in Google searches for bitcoin and others, also I've noticed the number of users online on poloniex has dropped significantly. This seasonal pattern was first observed with bitcoin, check this out: https://medium.com/@octskyward/bitcoin-s-seasonal-affective-...

Also, other negative news: 1. Alphabay, the largest darknet market went offline, not sure if that is significant. 2. Bitnumb, largest(?) crypto exchange in South Korea got hacked, also not sure how much impact this had, but usually an exchange hack has a short term effect on prices and there has been a lot of recent activity in SK.

Other reason may be that boom and bust cycles are a natural occurrence of crypto markets. They were getting white-hot for the last few months and finally need some time to cool. So move along, nothing to see.. The cycle continues. The next boom might be bigger than anything we've seen before :-)
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Many clients simply don’t need a website let alone a framework such as jekyll / git-pages.
Keep it simple. Knock up a Facebook page. “Hey! We make pies, come buy some”. Job done.
ALL of our problems of this sort are due to overpopulation. That's an unfortunate truth that nobody wants to talk about.
Sure, of course it's needed sometimes. But I was disagreeing with this statement:

> And good code will contain a lot of prose.

I disagree. Good code can also contain no comments. It's not an either/or thing.
> Having comparably powerful proof automation to Curry/Howard based systems is an open research problem.

Isabelle/HOL is essentially isomorphic to a subset of Lean when we assume classical axioms, and any automation you can write for Isabelle, you can write for that subset of Lean. It is often easy to generalize automation techniques to support the rest of Lean (i.e. dependent types) as well, but sometimes doing so may introduce extra complexity or preclude the use of an indexing data structure. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04391 for an example of generalizing a procedure (congruence closure) to support dependent types that introduces very little overhead.
They were expelled in 1965. The current year is 2017. If we wait a few more decades this discussion will be pointless either way.

I'm not opposing clarifications. I'm opposing quibbling over the semantics of "original" as if the distinction adds anything to the conversation.

Their parents lived there, they were born there, they were violently expelled and suffered emotional abuse. The number of dead ancestors (or lack thereof) in the ground does not invalidate the suffering these people were forced to endure.
I'm not sure what your argument is. Do you want to post pirated files, or files for which someone else has the copyright? Why do Erdogan or the Chinese Regime want to use the DMCA against you?
Computer science at least in my experience of it, definitely involves lots of science. I can't speak for the others.
Why not? JSX paved the way for the successful return to PHP3 style development.
Liked the idea. Thinking out of the box.
How is that related to the claim of the IPO price being set by an "auction occurring between the different banks who can underwrite the IPO"?

Edit: thanks for the clarification
Noir by KW Jeter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_(novel)

My username isn't a co-incidence.
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Static site generators are too complicated for the general public. I usually recommend Ghost, which is like Wordpress but done right, without the security issues and the awful code.
You underestimate the levels of straight-faced absurdity of the last 6 months.
I bought a Ubiquiti UAP-Pro access point. It is maginally faster than the fastest consumer access point / router, but substantially cheaper and more reliable.

The ubquiti has a spectrum survey mode that will tell you what sort of interference it sees on each channel. It takes 10's of minutes to run, and seems pretty thorough.

The real winning feature is that it is designed to be ceiling mounted, so I could place it in the center of my house, a few feet away from the nearest wall. There is also a mesh mode, where you buy more than one. If your house is big, and interference isn't the problem, that might help. I haven't tried it. They have newer / different models that do a better job of this than the UAP-Pro.

Later, I replaced my router with a pc engines apu2 running openbsd. Ubiquiti has a highly recommended cheap router (edgerouter lite) that works out of the box, if you aren't looking for a hobby project. People have gotten openbsd to run on it too.
As a woman whose period symptoms are not currently severe, but were for several years...

I used to have one morning per month when I could barely move from the pain and the naproxen I took to make it bearable would prevent me from concentrating on anything more complicated than children's cartoons. But I stumbled into work and faked productivity anyway because I only got 10 days of PTO - vacation and sick days combined - every year. If I'd taken time off to deal with menstrual pain, I would never have had a vacation at all.

And I'm a lucky one. My menstrual symptoms were only moderately severe, and they usually eased by mid-afternoon. Given flexibility, I would probably have worked remotely, taken a couple hours off in the morning (only answering urgent communications), and worked a couple hours later in the evening to make up for it (instead of bolting out of the office at 5pm sharp because being there sucks even harder when you're bleeding like a stuck pig and your intestines are revolting against your OTC meds and you generally feel like you've been hit by a bus).

Probably 25-30% of women (even without additional medical conditions like PCOS) have more severe symptoms than I did. I do think it's valuable to take menstrual problems into account and I would appreciate a workplace that is sympathetic to women who suffer severe menstrual symptoms.

But I hate that this particular proposal creates gender differences in the workplace. Yes, it feeds into the wage gap and into reluctance to hire women. It also creates weird medical privacy issues as several other posters have pointed out.

The right solution probably involves some combination of schedule flexibility; remote work; more sick days for everyone, not just women who happen to menstruate; and separating sick days from vacation days.
"This is hardly Linux's fault. <INSERT_MANUFACTURER_NAME_HERE> just didn't bother writing (proper) drivers."

The thing is, as a customer, after a certain point I just don't give a crap. Like, when I was a teenager it was super fun to spend entire days fixing esotheric problems with hardware and rebuilding the kernel to suit my needs, but nowadays I want to hit the power button and work. Linux is not that, at least not for me, I do use Mint daily on an older Dell laptop and that is 90% fine but for any "serious" development I would always use my Windows machine + VS.
My guess is they estimate one or several dominant scene planes from the sparse triangulated feature points and get scale through incorporating accelerometer measurements.
What’s really holding back blockchain in financial services
Gig economy jobs: report finds they could be hindering not helping workers
The UK courts have never ruled on the report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. They've never been asked to. The report was made years after the last time Assange's case was in front of the courts.

Theresa May may have said that, but the courts don't agree, and the UK is still party to the ECHR.
IANAL.

Correct me if I am wrong, but an investor's main interest to make money. They want you to succeed. If for some reason they are just milking you for information, remember you aren't under any obligation to tell them all your secrets. If the investor isn't a board member, you don't really have to tell them anything at all.

Don't stress too much about your investors. The only thing you can control is focusing on building a killer company. And you may find that your "competitor" sells a similar product to a different customer base, effectively making them not your competitor.
Found a cockpit video of a landing approach to 28R to give you an idea (daylight, good weather etc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Y6GTI9pg4
Thanks so much for sharing that story, and for the condolences. It really does mean a lot. ️
This is short sighted on many levels. Past experiences don't predict the future accurately. Just because we couldn't fly before 1900s didn't predict we never will. We already seen birds doing it but it took a while to reach a breakthrough.

> This is not something AI is anywhere close to being able to do.

YET :) Just look at these research available today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgB3Xg5st2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzg5Qe0pTKk

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not an impossible goal, but we are simply not there. Bug saying we never will needs a great evidence which we don't have afaik.

An AGI system should be able to write computer code based on vague specification. If it's intelligent it will write back clarifying questions. Just like I do on a regular basis. I imagine such a system will be running constantly for years.
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Rental life is a simpler life. It means someone else is responsible for fixing your sink when it leaks. The biggest financial risk renters take is not getting their deposit back due to necessary repairs when they vacate at the end of their lease terms.

And, from an investment point of view, maintenance may not be worth it if you believe that housing prices are too high and that a correction will be coming in the short to medium term. Why spend your own money on repairs if your house's value is going to tank in a few years anyway?
At least Literary Studies were honest enough not to call themselves a science (in English anyway).
I think the kicker will be when natural language and AI becomes good enough such that a non-technical person can state their intent, and computer generate a working interpretation. Then that person iterates.
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Except that during crisis Gold is guarantee to fall back at worst to it's "practical" value as a metal being used for jewelry. Even tulips bulbs have a practical value as every gardener could tell you.

However the practical value of a crypto currency is zero. And no technical small talk was able to contest this truth so far.

EDIT: Downvote what you can't contest, how mature!
It's the same old C++ rhetoric "only C++ can do it". Before it only C could do it, and before it only assembly could do it.

Reasoning starting from conclusions to lead to initial constraints is backwards reasoning. For example you don't talk about maintenance or productivity, and yet you end up making a choice without factoring this. Chances are, the choice in most codebases is made because of existing code and culture, not because of rational reasons.
No, you should provide examples of scientific papers saying that the problem is too much human activity.

That was your claim.

And no, asking to reduce CO2 emissions is not saying that there is too much human activity
That's pretty much what I think of as a non-American when I hear "History channel".
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As my old boss once said, "never confuse mathematics with mere arithmetic."
>> Still waiting any source, but I suppose youd don't have any

You're being an utter dumbass (trolling at best). The entire "debate" around climate change is based on the premise that human activity is causing it.

I agree, it's completely valid to frame it as a population problem.
Aw thanks, @thebiglebrewski! I'm the creator of https://entire.life, and I'm happy to see people are finding it from this post.

While at this point in time Entire.Life is a rather poor fit for what @tdist is looking for, I think its approach works better for most people who aren't looking for such nitty gritty details of the minutia of every day. It's good for getting perspective and documenting The Big Things, but so far isn't great for tracking _everything_.

That said, my ambitions are larger than that. There's the whole Entire.Life Emporium (https://entire.life/emporium), which right now has a very humble offering of things I hand-built, but which I aspire to open up to other developers in the future. I think integrations with Fitbit, Strava, etc would make complete sense for Entire.Life. And in that way, if you're as comfortable as @miguelrochefort with having corporations collect all of your data for you and then rent it back to you, you'll be able to use Entire.Life as a window into all such data.
Your comment is being dismissed (and downvoted) pretty thoroughly; but I think there's a grain of truth to it. As has been said by others, we don't get complete specs as it is, and our industry has moved towards "release often and fix the bugs or mistaken assumptions." The only real difference between the output of a NN and a human is the inference of the context to drive those assumptions.

Seeding a NN would be a simple listing of invariants: Headers are at the top of the screen, footers at the bottom, there exists a name field in the page and the datastore; the name field on the page corresponds to the name field in the datastore. Once those invariants are defined, the intermediate product is released to the customers and they directly drive further development of the NN by simply saying "this is not the expected behavior" in some easy drop-down.

I think the biggest hurdle will be that a human's assumptions are going to be more palatable than a NN's assumptions. But once a number of those assumptions are codified (or a statistical preference is determined), this weakness may be effectively mitigated.

This "crowd-sourced" definition of correctness has already been proven - in chatbots. People have been able to coerce chat bots into providing their desired output without touching a line of code.
If you just look at the front page of each sub as a link aggregate, it's a remarkably stark difference in absurdity between the two though.

The users control both comments and links. Yours is not a fair comparison.
I agree with this piece; I think enthusiasm is really outstripping reality in this case.
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