skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8mb blocks would mean that the bitcoin blockchain, would grow by 35 gigabyte a month. Compare this to the total blockchain size of about 120gb right now. This increases the cost of mining, by requiring miners to keep up on harddisk space. This cost can be amortized, as you can scale your processing independently of your harddisk space, making it even more profitable to mine for big investors, than smaller fish.
Show HN: Turn JavaScript code into Emoji using Webpack
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sounds like basic economics
'he's teaching them how he builds one specific game '

While I would agree that there may perhaps exist a better alternative, most of us have learned a difficult concept or two by finding a working example. This is that, but taken up to 11. Assuming you actually follow on and try to make -small- variations to ensure you understand whats going on, you will probably be in a great position
Using NPM for client libraries required using Webpack to bundle those things. If you were targeting Node.js then we just didn't support idiomatic usage of those libraries (users could just call require themselves directly).
Ryzen Threadripper chips are hundreds of dollars cheaper than Intel counterparts
Oh boy, a "travel voucher" that likely has so many restrictions it's worth 1/10th the actual number printed on it.

I'm not gonna hold my breath these people will actually offer cash.
and don't forget the equally useful and serious integer unary-double-equal greater-than operator

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>What about those that can't afford to pay.

That's not an argument.

Else we can ask what about those who can't afford an airplane ticket at all? Perhaps nobody should ever fly since we can't assume that these people don't have important plans either?

>Their plans less important because they can't afford the no-bump class?

No, but their purchase power is clearly less -- which is what determines what one buys (and if one can afford to fly in the first place), not the importance of their plans.

(The only place where the argument holds is in things like organ transplant waiting lists, which we don't want to turn into a market -- and we'd be less hypocritical if we extended it into general free/same-price healthcare for all).
The whole point of passing everything through Closure is to avoid needing externs. However there are caveats, see me comment above about building React.js directly from sources.
For-profit education companies, looking to get a piece of the action, have swept in and bought numerous bootcamps. This very thing happened to Dev Mountain a few years back. If you look at the reviews prior and after this acquisition, there is a very stark contrast to what happens when a reputable business is converted into a cash cow.
Do you mean blocking all IPs except for those whitelisted? Obtaining the right whitelist seems to be time consuming task. If you control your servers and trust their software, why would you cripple its operation?
Yeah, it most definitely is. I share the posts in art groups - sometimes from the page, sometimes the photo, depending on the group rules. I have a general idea which pieces are more popular, and it definitely doesn't match up to their statistics.

And oh my... though, I'm now curious if he happened to notice any actual results from it or if the negative reports still hold true.
Keras Back End Benchmark: Theano vs. TensorFlow vs. CNTK
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Currently on the frontpage from 8 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758615
Technical Debt in Machine Learning
Fixing the governance model is well and fine, but is the smart-contract language up to the task as well? We are mainly looking for fixes to the recursive-call plan interference bugs from Ethereum. It's not clear how to create closely-held values either.

https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/language.pdf
Privacy-preserving generative deep neural networks support clinical data sharing
Maybe I just wasn't keyed into it, but the old system you described was still how it was at Disneyland when I visited a few weeks ago. I was super impressed with it.
What is RxJS and what it does?
Firefox includes a proprietary binary for EME.
Would Viking Code School also make this list?
Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
Dev Bootcamp Is Dead, but It Didn't Fail
I think there are memory allocators that provide bounds, yes, but I never bothered finding one. Time-constrained code is so demanding already that handling the memory part is just one drop in an ocean of constraints. (and the whole thing is actually very interesting to do!)
Young blood treatment: https://www.ambrosiaplasma.com/
+1 for Zen - they really know what they are doing. Unfortunately FTTC still requires intervention from Openreach who are still terrible.

I find Zen is a good middle ground between a reliable ISP with good features (like static addresses, IPv6, etc) and good support, and a provider like Andrews * Arnold who are excellent but will cost 2-3x the price. A&A are just not really suited to home use, and price a lot on bandwidth, which in the age of Netflix isn't great.
Not sure with the Audi but Volvo's level 3 is being build to pull over and park if you are asleep when it wants to stop driving so not that dangerous.
Only slightly on topic question, but are there a lot of webgl games out there, or only demos? Any games I find are either toys or incredibly poorly performing.

WebGL seems to mainly be used for demos.
Yeah I agree with respect to the sample rate. I wasn't really sure what sample rate would be best when I started recording the audio, so just picked the highest the soundcard could handle.

I'll definitely look into applying a bandpass filter, thats a good idea!

I had wondered about the spectral signature idea, I was wondering if I could simply slide a window across the data, applying some kind of correlation function, using the magnitude data from the FFT of a known 'bubble' output compared to the window. But I wasn't sure what kind of correlation function to use, whether maybe Pearson correlation coefficient would be sensible?

I like your idea of using multiple microphones to get a 3D visualisation.
> ZFS doesn't support addition of disks unless you're happy to put a RAID0 on top of your RAID5/6 and it doesn't support removal of disks at all when parity is involved. It is possible to migrate by putting giant sparse files on the existing storage, filling the filesystem, removing a sparse file, removing a disk from the original FS and "replacing" the sparse file with the actual disk but this is somewhat risky.

It may be "RAID0 on top of your RAID5/6" but it's all integrated and works smoothly. What I do is have two raidz2 vdevs of 4 disks each, one twice the size of the other, and alternate which one I upgrade (i.e. I started with 4x250gb disks and 4x500gb disks, a few years later replaced the 250gb ones with 1tb ones, then the 500gb ones with 2tb ones, and most recently the 1tb ones with 4tb ones). But yeah I am now stuck with at least 8 disks and if I wanted to migrate off them I'd have to do so all in one go.
Amusingly, that's comparable or slightly lower than what I'd have to pay for a Auto (tuk-tuk) ride here in India.
Ok, there's a really long answer to this. I'm happy to send you (and everyone reading this) a free .pdf of my book that St. Martin's Press put out, but here is the tl;dr version

1. The 1,000 True fans thing doesn't work. You need (eventually) 200,000 people who like you and your product / website / app / whatever to visit your thing twice a day. (That number comes from a successful mall developer in the US who runs multiple hundred million dollar properties. The 1,000 True Fans thing is sort of like The Long Tail book in that, it's great on paper, but not so much in reality.

2. I hate to say this, but it's all about the brand. WHY are people going to take their (increasingly) limited time away from something that they love to spend it with you. Yes, quality and consistency are key, but if you don't have the proper distribution, you can have the best stuff in the world and it won't get you anywhere because nobody knows you exist.

You have to develop something that is unique to you, that also is attention getting to other people. (I know, easier said than done.) Then, you need to position that something using other people's platforms and resources (media outlets, connections) to grow your audience. This has been true since the beginning in the Internet era, by the way. (Almost) everyone grew rapidly by using someone else's platform and audience to get there.

3. Finally, you should know your 200,000 people backward and forward. The first 1,000 you should know by name. What they like. What they don't like. What problems that they have. How do they spend their time. Where do they get their information from? And then engineer everything you produce around that, so that the next 199,000 that are like the first 1,000 think you're talking directly to them and not some vaguely defined general audience.

Email for the free .pdf book: bj@bjmendelson.com
Currently about 200GB of photos on local RAID1 Synology NAS mirrored to Backblaze in case all drives dies.
The whole thing "will be valued at $3.73 billion", so it's perfectly possible that the total contribution of Yandex (cash and non-cash) is much larger than the contribution of Uber.
No pizza, half -1 bacon?
> Enabling your codebase to be used from the user's own browser would have a much better return in bloat-reduction, even if it meant writing more of your own code.

Not every app can be ported to the browser. For instance, if I wanted to make a local file manager (like fman) I couldn't do that in the browser. This is why native apps exist.
As a Sublime user - I was quite suprised when I tried VS Code and learned it couldn't do this.

Now, if only they improve highlighting. In sublime if you select variable - only variables with same name will be hightlighted. VS Code highlights all occurances of the said string. So if you have variable r for IO.Reader or something - al occurances of r will be highlighted.
The world’s longest recreational trail gives you 15,000 miles to find yourself
When content providers, a la YouTube switch to it.
> Ultimately, how practical is this idea? Well, if you were to build a secure multiplexer, this is probably the way you’d want to build it, so that it could be as simple (meaning reliable) and versatile as possible.

If I were to build a secure multiplexer as a unikernel, I'd still have the "configuration" at compile time only and I'd better have a damn good excuse to keep more state than the packet in transit on that instance (because someone would have to pay for the work to make the whole system consistent in the presence of buffering/caching nodes).
Looking at those charts it looks like that previous doubling of UK GDP took ~350 years.
The modern electric car (I say modern because the first electric car was supposedly built in 1880). No doubt the end of the combustion engine and the end of reliance on fossil fuels will change literally everyone's lives to some extent.

In my field of work, Linux, GitHub, and the appearance of modern programming languages like Java, Go, hard to pick a single language but they are all changing the industry in their own way, hopefully for the better.
Video is encoded onto the DNA of living bacteria using CRISPR
IPSec is a complex design by committee, with NSA's help. Schneier does not believe it will become a secure system.

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123...

https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-ipsec.pdf
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> mandatory morning yoga

This would enrage me.
NYTimes also covers the story (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/health/fda-novartis-leuke...) with more discussion about individual patients.

From the NYT article:

> The panel recommended approving the treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that has resisted treatment, or relapsed, in children and young adults aged 3 to 25.

Why so young?
Passion for bird-watching led brothers to build a birdseed empire
And simpleMDE, mentioned on this thread
The trick about autopilots (especially those in smaller aircraft) is that they operate almost exclusively based on information about their own state. Wing levelers just operate to keep the wings parallel to the ground, using information from a gyro. Direction keepers keep you on a particular heading, as determined by a gyro (which is corrected by a magnetometer). Even landing systems rely on radio signals being beamed at them.

The big exception to this is collision avoidance systems which use a radar combined with transponders; and is limited to fairly expensive aircraft as a result.

Autonomous cars have to start with radar-based collision avoidance simply to provide "smart" cruise control, and work outwards with lane detection for lane keeping, lidar and prediction for external body collision avoidance (deer, children, bikers), and so forth.

Aircraft autopilot is dead simple in comparison, and still has its share of failures. And speaking of failures, the other advantage of aircraft is that in the case of failure (in any phase of the flight other than takeoff/landing), pilots have tens of seconds to take over and hours each year of deliberate practice at flying compromised aircraft. Drivers, on the other hand, will be lucky to have a single second to realize their car isn't going to stop when they expect it to.
The ESP does not need to contain /boot, it only needs to contain the EFI. And the UEFI specifications are for an independent filesystem based on FAT, VFAT is still patented. In practice, any FAT filesystem usually works.
> IPSec is beautiful.

Could you elaborate?
I'm surprised to see no mention of the Trix editor here amongst the comments about how contentEditable is the root of all evil. Trix has a nice solution, from their readme:

Trix sidesteps these inconsistencies by
treating contenteditable as an I/O devi-
ice: when input makes its way to the ed-
itor, Trix converts that input into an
editing operation on its internal docum-
ent model, then re-renders that document
back into the editor. This gives Trix
complete control over what happens after
every keystroke, and avoids the need to
use execCommand at all.

Trix is from basecamp, and has a super healthy plugin/extension ecosystem - https://github.com/basecamp/trix

Full disclosure: not affiliated at all, but the rare times I need a WYSIWYG editor I tend to look for Trix and be very pleased.
A system where the failure case is to slow down, pull over, and ask for help already is a system that can drive without a human inside - if the "need for a capable driver" can wait until you're stopped, then it can stay stopped and wait for a few hours until a driver (or mechanic) arrives or it gets towed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748510
> I’d love to hear from others who’ve seen a similar effect and love their mothers (or other close loved ones) enough to not cut them out of their Facebook lives.

I think the bigger issue is family members, friends and relatives who do cut out their non-fb using closed ones by ignoring all other methods of telecommunication. "Oh, you didn't knew we planned a wedding, too bad you're not on fb!"
If that's what content creators want, isn't it in their right?

You're technically not allowed to download YouTube videos anyway, there just isn't a convenient measure against it. You're not paying, you're probably blocking ads and now you want to download stuff for free? You're worthless to creators.

Also, you're not getting to see all the videos that aren't on Youtube exactly because there is no DRM.
The question has nothing to do with an entirely optional vacation. You've bought a ticket for a funeral, a job interview, etc. Why should it be ok for the airlines to bump you off your flight when you have bought a ticket? Just so they can make a little bit more money when people occasionally don't show up?
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If it didn't matter when I got there, why would I be flying? The airports strike me as less pleasant than the old Greyhound stations I remember from forty years ago, and the seats on the planes aren't as good as the seats on the buses.
Even better would be to get ahold of the price list of a 3rd party warranty company.

The manufacturer warranty is just as likely to be a financial product as it is to reflect product quality.
That's a proof-of-stake! There are coins that use it. The only that comes to mind is peercoin (first to use PoS IIRC).
https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ (12m subscribers) goes in that direction.
Evil old woman, considered frightful or ugly, 12 down.
Will the last person at Basho please turn out the lights?
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The PC Market Decline Continued in Q2 2017 – Thurrott.com
The moral bit is choosing between 2 competing blood donations service - one that is run publicly to save life, the other to extend the life of healthy individual. I make the assumption that the remuneration of the second one will be most likely way bigger than in the first case. The only reason people would chose to donate to the first one is morality which is unfair.

The morality of the remuneration is orthogonal. I assumed we were talking about countries where it is moral and legal to remunerate blood donation. I don't think that countries that today do not allow remuneration (for any reason) would allow it for this new use case.
> dumping cheap and sub-standard solar panels on America

The country receiving the goods can refuse to buy if the quality is poor, or there are safety risks, or the workers are being exploited or the manufacturing process is environmentally unsustainable.

Poor countries have little freedom to turn down wealthy customers.
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YouTube probably won't force this, but even if they do, nobody forces you to use YouTube.
The 7 TPS claim is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

You must remember that Bitcoin transactions are "settled" in that 7 TPS timescale, whereas VISA transactions are merely "recorded" in their 50K TPS rate.

In reality, it generally takes a minimum of 15 days for your VISA transaction to "settle" with your bank account. Thereby the true TPS rate is orders of magnitude lower for VISA.
Because the ZIL is a journal log, not a cache. It is intended to increase data security without sacrificing too much performance. Many people also confuse ZIL and SLOG devices though...

By default, the ZIL is written on the same disks as where the data will be stored, but an external device (aka SLOG) can be added. From that point on, your write IOPS will be limited by this SLOG device, so normally you add a more expensive fast disk as SLOG device to increase your write IOPS.
A great deal of the American economy over the last forty or fifty years has consisted in mining the wealth built up over the previous thirty or forty. Think of casinos, for example. On that basis, why should Walmart stick around when the mine is tapped out? AMAX wouldn't keep a mine operating when the returns no longer make sense.
It's amazing that you can get that kind of power from a low-impact installation on 10 acres of land. Modern, large wind turbines are more impressive in terms of output but putting them in is quite a chore.
Well there was this sometime ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406583

Though that was Google.
I recommend reading the comments here on why other editors are bigger.
How many individuals/7B is there?
Where? As a long time Soundcloud listener and artist I have never seen an option to buy or sell music on Soundcloud. Unless you mean the "Buy"-link which you can setup to redirect your listeners to actual stores and purchase options.
Does anyone know if the Chinese government has done any public education campaign on the issue? It often seems as mainlanders just don't know — they'll literally spit on the floor of a bus.
> It's not a better alternative, because it makes DRM too easily accessible

As anti-DRM as I am, what you're basically saying is that DRM which is essentially encryption used with some sort of e-commerce system should be difficult and obtuse, so as to discourage it's use, while at least implying (and I'm betting you are) that you'd be pro-encryption on the user's side for security and privacy.

You have the right to privacy and to use encryption to enforce that privacy, but so do content creators have the right to lock you out until you're willing to pay money, watch ads, or whatever system they have in mind. You aren't entitled to content any more than Doubleclick is entitled to your browsing history.
> If that's what content creators want, isn't it in their right?

Absolutely. That's not particularly relevant to the normative question of whether the HTML standard should make adding DRM less of a pain point though.
I often think how better off Uber would have been had they stayed away from markets which no sane company would chose to compete in until, at least, a few years of founding, let alone an operation-heavy company like Uber. In India, autos are already way inexpensive and customers are too price-sensitive to prioritise service. Although, Uber has become the dominant one here but it'll take a while to understand how profitable the bet on India was.

Travis didn't just want to dominate the industry, he wanted to dominate the world: a megalomania to a whole new level.
Make visualization in markdown
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I have had sever successful hack repairs.
A weak kettle switch strengthened by construction glue and hanger wire drilled through the plastic.

A washable force air filter frame reinforced by a glued on plastic sheet.

The $80 car antenna that broke off in an unfortunately time garage door close also fixed with glue and museum putty(just for stability till the glue dried).

I am a maker, breaker and a fixer. Keep it out of the trash.
Bandwidth is not the same thing as latency.
There won't be that many people who need this drug, and supposedly it's a one-time cure that isn't a life-long drug treatment. I'm a layman when it comes to biotech, but my hope is that longterm the prices come down for this and other drugs that use a similar technique to treat diseases. I'm happy researchers are focusing on cures rather than "living-with" a disease.

Also, shoutout to Boston (and Cambridge) which I don't think gets enough love on HN. #1 in the entire world for biotech, #2 for software, #1 for higher ed, #1 for healthcare, you can actually afford to live here, solid public transportation, amazing skiing / hiking / beaches, NYC in 4 hours. If you are tired of SF think about Boston
That's a very interesting article. One of the points that really stood out to me, despite the present but weak correlation with socioeconomic status, is that it still serves as a very strong springboard for gifted children out of poverty. The article mentions that the SATs can be the bane of upper middle class parents trying to get their children into good schools (test prep works, but only goes so far), while even kids with a lower SES get perfect scores on the SAT.

I can easily imagine that abject poverty would mess with SAT scores (or probably even prevent someone from taking the SAT), but for the majority of the country I would expect the SAT levels the playing field rather than hurting it. For example, I live in a rural town in Missouri. No one here is rich, but the majority of the town is not in poverty. I can't think of a better way than the SAT for a precocious child here to get into a top-tier school.
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I think a huge reason would be a connecting flight being cancelled or delayed too. Maybe the majority reason. I've been booked so tight before that even a 15 minute delay or a gate change to another part of an airport would make me miss a connecting flight.