skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealth isn't being created. For every person getting rich there's someone else buying in at the current price which is.... euphoric for a "digital commodity" with no inherent value.
Well indeed - I wonder how these folks are gonna pay for hosting once someone starts testing a video streaming site...
Not at the moment. We do love open source and have an interest in seeing what we can make open. But currently we simply don't have the resources to do so.

There is the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) that is being developed to make this kind of information interoperable. The standard is young, eager and important work that we appreciate and follow. http://sbolstandard.org/
In our modern era of digital photography, 99% of what makes a great photograph is the content, not the processing. Being able to make a technically flawless image is interesting, but to compare it to serious professional photography misses the point almost completely.

To be fair, there's plenty of technically good but uninteresting professional photography, too.
~50$ a month buys you a dedicated server with a Quadcore Skylake (i7-6700).

The fastest Macbook available right now has about the same CPU power, and comes with less RAM. So no, the Macbook isn't faster than what you could get, but it makes sense if rented CI infrastructure isn't faster for that price.
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Blockchains only improve the efficiency of permissionless system. If you're going to create an in-house currency, it would be idiotic to use something as un-scalable as a blockchain.
A fine balance
Profits ?
I guess OP was alluding to diseases caused by bad protein:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion#Prion_diseases_and_their...

A well known example is mad cow disease.
How is the US government allowing this?

I'd be willing to wager we have some under water assets that we don't necessarily want to be discovered.
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Interesting. So you're saying I could, as a mid-upper-class white guy, wearing a collared shirt, khakis, leather shoes and a backpack with a laptop in it (what I wear and carry on a daily basis), walk through references heyjackass map Englewood or Austin, and on a given night have a better than 99% chance of coming out untouched?

You'd think noticeable outsiders, who dress like they have some money, carrying valuables (or at least a recognizable laptop bag) would be a target in places with essentially double the US national average crime rate. You're the local, why isn't that the case?
I've been working on it since December. We've been showing it some people in relevant positions and getting feedback. I literally threw up a website to sign up for Atlas so it wasn't meant to be marketable just yet
Prions are 'misfolded' proteins [1] that, in their misfolded form actually cause other proteins to also misfold - a physical viral cascade. A really crazy concept not too dissimilar from a kind of biological 'grey goo' - and in real life actually happens to cause diseases like 'mad cow'. The implication is that blindly engineering a protein might create such a physical virus. I would suggest that the likelihood of accidentally creating such a virus is very much like accidentally creating stuxnet. Possible, but extraordinarily unlikely. And further, would such a thing be made, we'd like to know about it while it's still in the lab and can be contained, learned about, and prevented in the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Nice to see someone succeeding in the travel space.
A large factor of the answer to this problem is in the second paragraph and the author glosses right over it:

"This state of things has left analysts stumped. For nearly a decade, the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates at extraordinarily low levels in order to initiate growth and rising demand, inflation, and ultimately higher wages. But the higher wages have been stubbornly slow to materialize."

Interest rates have been dropped into the ground, and it hasn't increased investment(growth). We have the highest savings in the history of capitalism and the lowest level of investment.

This is the wheel of capitalism literally coming to a halt because the oligarchs are staring each other down waiting for someone to go first.

And I think there is a lot to be said about Wall Street leaching most of the investors' money because it promises better returns than actual investment into actual things with utility.

Wall Street is 'supposed' to be the mechanism for recycling profits into investments so that this wheel keeps spinning. Does anyone honestly still believe it's functional?
How would they ever agree on an acceptable minimum rate? Somebody working from SF will have a dramatically different view on living wages than someone from Bucharest or Mumbai.
I used to work in a startup where the all the CEO wanted to do was "network" and networking with VCs and people in the industry usually means go out drinking. It ended up that the team and I (I was the CTO) ended up building the product that made revenue that supported the business while the CEO's networking only meant he didn't show up a lot of times. It lead to absolutely nothing mostly just a waste of time.

Focus on building the product and focus on selling and serving your customers. I have since left that company due to issues with the CEO and started my own. I am now doing 0 networking and focusing 100% on building the product and servicing my customers.

People in the startup scene here say "you never go networking how's your startup doing, what's your valuation now" to which I reply proudly "we are growing quietly, my company has real revenue not valuations."
Some of my favorite examples:

https://os.phil-opp.com

https://github.com/helena-project/tock

https://www.redox-os.org

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

https://github.com/intermezzOS/kernel

The biggest application example:

https://github.com/servo/servo

And some self promotion:

https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns

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I encourage all programmers to check it out. You may discover like me, that Rust is a compiler and language which guards against all the hard learned lessons I've had over my career. It's an amazing language to program in.
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"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that apply in Australia is the law of Australia."

Numbers aren't real in the KANGA Kingdom! Lalalalala I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
I'm glad to see mathematics guides, social leaders, and research papers included in this list. It's one thing to google "nlp tutorial" but another to know who to follow and even where to find more advanced content.
It's because the real unemployment rate is higher than the "official rate". U-6 is the best indicator. Workers are still being pulled into the labor force, hence why wages have not risen despite the labor market tightening. We still have a long way to go to "full employment", at which point wage inflation would accelerate.

Interest rates were held low because the Federal Reserve has limited tools to stoke demand (and heh, who doesn't love a good asset bubble
amirite?). It therefore "pushes the string", attempting to use monetary policy when what is really necessary is Congress to act (higher taxes and government spending, or pushing wages up with legislation).

Call your representatives.
VC is one of the cornerstones of tech innovation. Without the funding to bring great ideas to fruition we would not have the amazing products and services we have come to rely on today. I do agree that an overhaul is required and that founders should be interested in the diversity of portfolios of the VC's they pitch. If you as a founder believe that men and women of any ethnicity and of any age who have a great idea/project should be afforded eaual opportunities to attend Y Combinator or any of the accelerator programs then you should care about the diversity of the VC's you work with. You should care because it is easy to say SV needs to address sexism, ageism, etc but if you only say it rather than act on it, then let's get real....you don't really mean it.

As an angel, make decisions based on the idea, the team, etc. If you would fund the project with a male founder rather than a female one, or with a 25 year old founder rather than a 50 year old founder, then you are contributing to the culture that exists today. I realize that ideas and projects do not stand apart from the founders, but a great idea or project is still a great idea or project but accelerators are accustomed to teaching, developing and growing teams and projects.

I am pleased to see that change is coming and it is in part to the courage of some very brave women. To any individual who has been harassed, groped, threatened, or bullied, you deserve to be treated better. To the men who abused their power as VC's, those actions are your shame not the shame of the women who were subjected to those actions.
Bringing TOOWTDI from the realm of Python and Go to English, I see.

I suppose the argument I'm making does indeed depend on the premise that essential semantics of "fuck" can be conveyed in other ways. If you like, we could explore this by example.
The solution to this is plain and simple wealth-tax that can only be avoided if their investment creates X% jobs.

There are corner cases to it but the underlying reasoning is, if your investment is just lying around accruing wealth, it's bullshit wealth.
I have a 2.5 year old daughter. Beer doesn't do much for me, but that made me weepy.
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I hate those, they stink really bad. My family loves it.
Unemployment benefits are largely funded by employers, not taxpayers.
Sounds like C64 emulation isn't particularly robust or mature. For the opposite extreme of things, look at something like DOSBox or ZSNES.
I've been a programmer all my life and never realized there was another way than being jerked around.

I don't know what to do with this into, but thank you... It's very eye opening.
You've summed up my feelings well: I can't afford to not be in the stock market as all other financial investments pay peanuts on the dollar. And yet I don't trust that the stock market numbers represents actual growth. It's propped up. When does this end?
They hit the nail on the head right here: "Companies are psychologically and emotionally geared not to raise wages as a matter of course." Our current business culture is basically to maximize profits and minimize expenditures.
Ha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...

Norway has 31.3 guns per capita.
Iceland has 30.3.
The US has 112.6.
Not all good things come in beautiful packages. This is the economic consequence of creating a system that no one entity can fully control. Without a central backing, it's value cannot be manipulated and, therefore, the supply cannot increase equally with demand. This has the harsh consequence of facilitating excess reward mechanisms amongst early adopters.

I agree. It does sort of suck when you realize that the rich are again getting richer, but the point of Bitcoin, and crypto as a whole (minus the scams), is not to redistribute wealth, but rather, make finance open and permissionless. The question is, are the economic consequences of adoption worth the benefits of it's mainstream use? I, and many others, believe so.
https://i.imgflip.com/1hcwth.jpg

Seriously however, with the increase in social acceptance around the world, this is a necessary technology. Operating a vehicle in any mentally reduced state is a hazard to everyone around you.. And too many people seem to disregard the dangers when smoking pot.
Not through ads.
People who view humanity as a plague upon the Earth definitely won't want us spreading elsewhere.
It wasn't so much Google. The big players lobbying for the civilian degradation to be turned off in the late 1990s were the airline industry. Within the government, the FAA was also a big advocate, hoping it would be able to retire various other expensive systems if it could count on a reliable GPS.
Flightradar24

Contrails will help you find the jet, but you should be able to see it on a clear day.
Ah, so either take the risk or get taxed? Kind of bold.
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Why would they be more concerned about this than with several countries with the capability to do this same thing on their own? Who probably already have mapped or are in the process of mapping the seabed in high-resolution detail via satellites and surface and submersible devices and vehicles?

And while that's a very long sentence, this is just a "public" version of the same.
Another PSA: SMS and email are both less secure channels than your average https login. My doctor doesn't trust these channels to communicate my test results, so I guess don't use this for anything more sensitive than that.
I first visited China over 25 years ago and the domestic Chinese tourist groups then were a bit painful. As that middle class has grown and they've been able to travel internationally, that fun has spread. Yes, they're pretty obnoxious, but it's more ignorance than intentional.

Certainly not so painful that I'd avoid visiting China though.

Younger Chinese travelling as couples or small groups are much more polite. As you said, within a generation or two, I think the reputation as travellers will improve.
I assume because he regularly worked with formulas involving squares and square roots. This is a guy who did long division in his head on long car rides to stay awake. He also memorized the square and cube of every number from 1 to 100.

His justification for starting was trying to keep track of the order of magnitude of everything he calculated to catch fat finger mistakes. And a sanity check. However, you need a few digits on the front of a number before you can really safely keep track of exponents that way.
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Not just the card catalog but the entire concept of library has been lost. Libraries have been transformed from places where people could come to read, research and explore into community homeless shelters that provide online porn access and bathrooms that are basically shooting galleries.
>Our current business culture is basically to maximize profits and minimize expenditures.

Yep, what the shareholders get is profit, what employees get is an expenditure.
What are the very real downsides that generics have?
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> A suit is not inherently more powerful than a Thawb or a Kimono.

I did not say that, I explicitly said that the quality and fit of the clothing is of primary importance. You could make the argument that the ceiling is much higher for Kimono, they seem to start around ¥200,000 JPY, and going up from there not for the faint of heart. Thawbs are sorta self-limiting, little can genuinely be done for their quality, about as limited as the range for white dress shirts; some have weird things like false lapels.
Both and sadly, some at the same time. Example: choosing to do A rather than B when A turned out to be the wrong choice so I regret not choosing B.

In general I don't have many regrets but I think it would be over chances not taken more than choices I did make.
No but you find it maybe around halfway through the novel. It is definitely not like the main twist or anything.
We're sorry, user "wrycoder" is already using that password.
14/15. Confused Swift and Objective C.
Neither did I say he was. He was linking to a library that works around the lack of generics by generating code.
The value of money is the aggregate feeling of each person that a seller will agreeto accept it in exchange for something they need.

The more people do this, the more the network effect.

In a sense, money is like an app that spreads through a population. Just another app :)

It can be local currency in a community. So paying in this currency helps keep the community vibrant.
Imagining software in a mesh-networked, potentially-disconnected future
But... can it make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs?
icantdrive55, you've been shadowbanned for a long time, and I see no obvious reason for it in your comment history. I'd suggest getting in touch with the site admins to inquire.
Which isn't necessarily a problem is employees share in ownership. Unfortunately, it seems this is generally an option only for those that already make a relatively good income.
The lovely globals (e.g. `$_GET`) are what give PHP away.
Then why can't you negotiate a better deal separately from the union?

If it's truly not a commodity market, then a firm could gain a competitive advantage by refusing to negotiate with the union and hiring non-union employees.
That's why you route your plaintext traffic it through the tunnel. ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 then go to http://localhost:8080
> even for smaller icebergs

Naively, the energy cost of towing should go as the 2/3 power of the mass of the iceberg, whereas the energy cost of desalination is linear. So bigger is better!

Of course, it's a million times bigger than the biggest iceberg ever towed, so I guess there is some technical risk. But where's your can-do attitude?
Probably it's not necessary. Just exchange blood through tubes, and if you ever need to leave you can just disconnect it. Sewing people together seems a bit extreme.
KAL 007 showed the US government that there were important civilian uses for GPS, and they realized that they could do a lot of good by opening it up.

The idea of government is that it lets us do things for the collective good what we would not do for ourselves individually. The US government, for all its faults, does sometimes follow that idea. It's not much different from maintaining the highway system. True, it covers the world, not just the US, but the nature of satellite navigation means that it wouldn't be any cheaper or easier to restrict the system to only work in the US, so why bother?
mind the options

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2010/12/07/3
Because generics have been around for decades, and anyone who can't be bothered to look into the use cases for a feature that spans numerous languages over that time period doesn't deserve the time it takes someone else to spoon feed this information to them. This goes for the author of the article as well.
Mentioning "high-functioning alcoholic" reminded me of a story about Churchill's drinking habits (and a modern-day journalist being unable to match it):

He died 50 years ago this month - the anniversary of his funeral will be marked later this week -- at the ripe age of 90. A miracle, considering he had drunk an estimated 42,000 bottles of Pol Roger champagne through his life; he thought nothing of starting the morning with cold game and a glass of hock and ending it at 3am with the best part of a bottle of cognac.

(via http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/drinks/the-day-i-t...)

Churchill was nevertheless able to write numerous political tracts, pamphlets, speeches, a six-volume history of the first world war, a six-volume history of the second world war, and a four-volume history of the English speaking people. He won the Nobel Prize for literature, and throughout his long political career served as Home Secretary, Minister of Defense, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and PM (twice).
I imagine they would have their own hardware for a site like this. It could be any datacentre in Montreal, of which there are many to chose from.

As an aside; if I were a drug kingpin the last place on earth I would go to is Thailand.
If you're making $240K working remotely, you're doing considerably better than all but one person I know. Perhaps that'd be a little bit of an outlier?
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I think most investor intros that go anywhere are made by people who built their network in a much more solid way. Every time I've been introduced to an investor it was by someone I've worked with. So it's really this superficial networking that's completely dumb.
Doesn't look a day over sixty million.
You can't get that high of res with a satellite,

And I would assume they would protect those assets against other submersible devices
How many founders is too many, or too few? (Also, how do you divide equity?)
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Indeed this was a great read, felt like i was reading the O'Reilly Microservices book all summed down into a blog.
Wouldn't be the first time.
We now have the hedge funds battle: Warren Buffet vs. Paul Singer
My sentiment has always been we need a regional (ala ABAG) authority which has oversight over regional growth so that it would be less haphazard and more coordinated.

Yes, build in SF, but also build on the Penn, East Bay, South Bay, etc. and coordinate transit development, zoning, etc., etc.
FFS, stop making cryptographic recommendations to others when you don't have expertise in this area.

Cryptographers nowadays are recommending PKBDF2 (essentially iterated hashing with the hash algorithm of your choice) with at least 100,000 rounds. And it's considered to by far the weakest of "modern" password hashing approaches, behind bcrypt, scrypt, and Argon2 (in that order).

Your double-MD5 is garbage, and nobody is going to bother wasting their time breaking it because it's a bullshit challenge. If you used a strong, unique password, you've missed the point, because users in the real world don't. If you used a weak password, we have a few billion points of empirical data that contradict you, so why bother installing hashcat and mucking about with password cracking rules when anyone paying attention for the past ten years knows what the outcome is going to be?
Alcohol is a problem exactly insofar as it negatively affects your life. The problem is that, like all drugs—indeed, all vices of any kind—the thing itself is exactly what will convince you that it's not causing problems. If you live a long, full life, if your health and relationships aren't suffering, who's to say there's anything wrong with it? But it's very hard for an individual in it to know that those things are true.
I have to echo the other comment because I am too curious: If one can make $260k instead of $65k within this system, then what is stopping him?
It reminds me of the old urban planning line "You can't decide on the necessity of a bridge based on the number of people who swim across the river".

Users who have heavy need for genetics have already moved away from Go.
> ... wealth out of thin air by doing useless computations at the cost of enormous electricity.

This is not a new observation or a universal property of crypto projects. Alternatives to POW, are an active subject of research, and are very important to several active crypto projects. You don't even have to look too far down the market-cap listings to find them.
Ah. Practically identical in mine:

http://i.imgur.com/3YcxWIy.png
It's about as difficult to get into Waterloo for undergraduate studies as it is to get into a regional US state university. Many Waterloo students don't take AP courses and standardized tests are not required. I am rather disappointed more US universities have not adopted a similar coop system.