skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you don't make a major blunder like the Parity team

...Which was founded by the very person who developed the smart contract language Solidity. Which goes to show how difficult it is to write 100% bug-free smart contracts.
Reality is stochastic. Scientific debates are grounded in probability, not formal logic. If someone has published 38 papers which were complete junk, that gives us a very strong prior about their 39th paper.

Poor researchers are very common. Conspiracies to smear people are very rare. If an academic has a bad reputation, the odds are good that their reputation is deserved.

None of this is conclusive - mavericks do occasionally produce brilliant-but-unconventional research - but it's hugely relevant. There aren't enough hours in the day to give every paper the benefit of the doubt. We have to use Bayesian shortcuts and crude heuristics to filter things for credibility, otherwise we'd be drowning in a sea of junk. The occasional false-positive is a price worth paying.
I'm not 100% sure, but through anecdotal experience and from what I've read (although haven't vetted), we lose track of counters at ~8 of them. That is, III is easily discernable as 3 'I's, but take IIIIIIIII, and try to recognize how many 'I's are there immediately.
USB3.1 supports DMA, but at least you can disable it in the driver, if the driver exposes that functionality or you are using open drivers.
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I can't give you a citation but I'm under the impression that many scientists who are interested in megafauna extinction actual subscribe to a hybrid theory, namely that megafauna extinction was often the result of both human hunting and climate change happening at the same time, which could stress megafauna populations far more than just one or the other.
https://xkcd.com/492/
I agree that it's a valid choice to make, and people should have the freedom to make such choices if they want. However, you said before that "It makes no difference to anyone if homosexuality is innate, or just a set of chosen behaviours." and that's incorrect. It does make a difference, to some people. To those people, they'd oppose it if it were proven to simply be a choice, whereas they'd have more empathy if it were proven to be completely innate: it'd like being mad at a mentally-retarded person for doing something dumb, compared to being mad at or disappointed in a very intelligent person for making a very dumb decision. I'm not defending this mentality (because again, I have no problem with homosexuality and I think people should be free to have whatever physical relationships they want), but I'm explaining it.

Also, remember that a lot of people (particularly religious ones) want to regulate social behavior, even in the bedroom, because they believe this is important for society's survival and prosperity. So in their view, homosexuals should be oppressed (either strongly by the state, or more weakly by social pressure) for the good of society, and to keep their behavior from "spreading". There's not really a way to counter this mentality by people like us because their worldview is so entirely alien to us: we don't believe in divine retribution for "immoral" behavior (a la Sodom & Gomorrah) and they do, and nothing's going to shake their belief.
> why does beer mean "scaling"

Because of the Ballmer Peak. https://xkcd.com/323/
I'm not going to argue for or against the existence of frameworks however any frameworks that exist become part of the conversation. They're a new set of nouns, verbs, and grammar to learn. And programmers will naturally try and avoid unnecessary duplication of this common language and focus around a few frameworks.
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You are in a fantasy world if you think Japanese people like "a good smoke". You obviously know absolutely nothing about real life in Japan.
> They literally allow an individual to be their own bank.

The main function of banks is issuing debt, not holding cash.
Poemas del río Wang is far from spam! It's an extraordinary blog with a unique kind of whimsical erudition. Such posts will always be welcome here, as the site guidelines make clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Please don't post snarky dismissals with no information in them. We're trying for a higher signal/noise ratio than that here. Not everything on HN's front page is to everyone's taste, nor should it be, and there is always much else to read.
Lyft will launch self-driving car rides by the end of this year
Hey Chris, give me a call, this is your mother.

Ok not really your mother, since I doubt your mother's beard is as luxurious as my own, but we need a call to catch up.
IMO Boulder itself isn't really an awesome place to live, but pretty much anywhere else along the Front Range (Ft Collins to Castle Rock) is lovely. Obviously there's a lot of VC in Boulder - a commute from the southern regions would be prohibitive. I just gave up a commute from downtown Denver to Boulder because it was pretty bad.
Paying your taxes funds real crimes too. Should I stop paying taxes?

According to you, the people in the Underground Railroad were doing the wrong thing, and should have followed the prevailing laws on slavery, and it was wrong for slaves to rebel, even when they were being brutalized and murdered. Your position is disgusting and repugnant.
I think the value that YC provides has to do more with its people and ethos than it's platform. Although they were the first incubator, I don't think it's the incubator model that makes them who they are (as we've seen many other competitors with the same model pop up) but rather it's the people and ethos that its founders engrained into the system that makes Y Combinator what it is. For that reason, I'm inclined to believe that the more of the traditional fundraising process Y Combinator moves into, the better it is for the overall ecosystem.
> The poor tend not to go to college, so they start paying earlier. They also work hard labor so they die earlier, meaning they collect for fewer years.

Both of these issues would exist with any retirement vehicle, public or private, so singling out a public retirement vehicle for criticism doesn't make much sense.

(The astute might even notice that singling out the problems in public institutions without considering their private analog was the same blind spot in your original comment.)

That said, it is worth noting that as a flat tax (with a ceiling), FICA taxes are in fact a regressive tax scheme (as are sales taxes) -- something to keep in mind the next time flat taxes are floated as a good idea for income taxes in general. Whether that means the overall tax burden (vs program benefits) is regressive is less clear, given the somewhat progressive nature of the rest of the income tax structure. But I might well agree that problems with a public retirement vehicle would be worth addressing in public policy, so to the extent that it can be established that the overall burden is regressive, sure, I'd be supportive of changes that would make it more progressive.

Maybe we could look at capital gains tax rates, which I'm sure you're also concerned about, given how important regressive redistribution is to you.
I think that if the power law cannot be integrated on [0,infinity), it cannot be integrated on (0,infinity) either.
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This is a better argument for the importance of public education than it is for creating a new profession.
Every time you post about desktop Linux here the starting point is "people should be using this because I like it." Criticisms are deflected with "well, don't do that"--guess what? People are gonna "do that" because they do it with literally everything else. "Do some due diligence on this thing I want you to use" is as unreasonable as it gets, champ.

But it's me being unreasonable. And abusive--I laughed aloud, dude.
If a kilo, for example, was made of 12 x 12 x 12 (1728) grams instead of 1000 grams, then you could sell stuff by the half-kilo, third-kilo, and 1/12 kilo without going into decimals. The number 1728 would still be written as 1000 in base 12, but 1/3 kilo would be 400 grams instead of 333.3333... as it is now. Useful if you're a grocer.

Other applications, like documenting how much oil to put in a car or whatever, there would be more options for picking memorable numbers. Like, my motorcycle takes 1.6L of oil. It could be 1 represented as 1 2/3 L, which is more visually intuitive. Not sure if I explained that well enough, maybe someone else has got a better metaphor handy...
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I'm taking a course on Deep Learning right now, because my boss asked me to. It's Udacity course number UD730.

The first homework assignment was image recognition on notMNIST. That dataset has been used thousands of times before, so I decided to make it more interesting! I got data for 1500 Chinese fonts, so I could make a better OCR for Chinese characters.

I put that into the example, made the "pickle" files, trained the model, got a 90% prediction-test result value... but now what?

How do I take that model and make a real image OCR that can take a photo from my phone and analyse it?

I can write scripts to get data, and follow the steps in a course to make a model, but unless I have a useful output, I don't know how I'm going to apply this to my other programs. If you're offering "end to end", then documentation and examples of some kind of API would be great. (e.g. send a PNG to this REST service, and get the prediction back as text).
That isn't true at all. A lot of people rent in china. It's just that demand for housing to live in is way lower than demand for housing as a speculative asset.
Some of my favorites:

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Astronomy Cast - Long-running podcast with each episode about a topic in astronomy

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Love and Radio - Human interest stories

Welcome to Night Vale - Weird scifi-ish stories in a newscast format
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Cupertino is so ridiculously boring that no one wants to live there though.
I did the FSF paperwork and had a patch for Emacs accepted. Not a big deal, really. Dicussion of the patch on the mailing was very useful and I learned a thing or two from Eli. Not sure why people spend so much energy debating this when it is really a non-issue.
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did isis mount google streetview cameras on their toyota pickup trucks right next to the antiaircraft machine guns?
Denver/Boulder area as well. :-) Plus if you like doing things outside we have that in spades here.
If the people don't want to provide things to folks imprisoned, the state should look into ways to keep folks from being imprisoned. It won't stop all of it - but at that point, prison is more of a public service.

Change laws and punishments so that fewer crimes result in jail time or removal from the workforce, for example. Especially for non-violent crimes. Improve conditions for poor folks, the mentally ill, and so on.
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Spacex drops propulsive landing for Dragon capsules
Oregon has been putting commercials on SFBA airwaves saying "move here."
A 3 year sample does not prove anything.
Slaves would have probably chosen to pick cotton, if the alternative was abuse and torture (Which they by and large did.)

Those were, and are choices made under duress.

Down this road lie GULAGs.
agreed. looked at the front page. looks kinda bad. nothing to click on besides sign up? im out.
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Kind of offtopic but is there a linux terminal program that when you paste a bunch of commands with carriage returns asks you if you want to continue?
Uber tried this and backed off of it because their employees didn't want to move.
This is disappointing. I was really hoping the idea of landing the Dragon propusively would survive, especially as I was hoping there would be a way to integrate it with a lunar lander. But apparently that won't be the case.
>While this is true, outside of some specialized historical critique fields the most common usages of this term are in forums/literature of the libertarian and free market anarchist bent.

I didn't know that. I haven't seen this term associated with libertarian thought.
There are prison systems that don't force their inmates into slave labor. Being against slavery, even in the prisons, is not promoting illegal activity in any sense.
THey're basically cutting off every song with "Hey Bulldog". Its so bad, they're just letting it happen.
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This is a very superficial way to look at things, and ultimately, entirely wrong.

One of the cornerstones of OPSEC is persona creation & management. This is orders of magnitude easier to perform in cyberspace than in real life, and can be used as a catch-all safety -- for exactly when mistakes are made and layers are compromised --.

You will make many many mistakes, but part of a well-implemented OPSEC strategy, is to have those mistakes land in a compartment, an illusionary persona that you created out of thin air. Operation size has nothing to do with it and should be completely irrelevant when the compartmentation strategy used is solid.
I can't imagine how painful it must be to develop software on windows.
If there's a pizza parallel for CaaS, it's microwave pizza. Doesn't matter what microwave you put it in as long as you put in the right settings (cough, environment variables, cough) and cooks up much quicker than pizza put into traditional ovens - of course, you pay a price for sharing the same microwave mechanism (cough, kernel, cough) across many different recipes, leading to concerns about taste (cough, secure isolation, cough) etc., but for many people its speed and ease-of-use make it worth it.
(OT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee & http://ask.metafilter.com/196673/Did-China-ever-actually-sen... ; Apparently its an urban myth at least for china though)
You got me :)
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When is it OK to be a jerk?
Looks like the iOS app supports browser autofill and there's a Firefox plugin.
> Video Player: Something that supports everything you can throw at it.

I would go with mpv there instead of the obvious VLC. It just so much faster and bug-free!
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Unfortunately, not there this year.
Writing custom tools is not a solution for the standard professional developer. If Ethereum is to take off, it will need one of

* Little to none "get up and running" time. Custom tools don't allow for that.

* Provide such tremendous value that it is worth overcoming the initial setup hurdle.

Right now, Ethereum has neither.
Just Re: the "think of the children" angle.

My commute is 2 hours and change, each way; I'm out of the house for a little over 12 hours a day. My job is flexible, so I can leave for work at a little before 9 and return home a little after; I can also work from home 1 day a week.

This amounts to being away from home ... about 50 hours a week, 60 when I go into the office all five days. Is this forum really going to tell me being out of the house 50 or 60 hours a week is excessive?

Compared to a parent who has to work 2 jobs, or who has a job that requires long shifts, or who has to be away from home for weeks or months, a well-managed long commute hardly interferes with a family life at all.
Different sectors are hot now and different sectors are concentrated in different areas. It’s not consumer social that is hot. Nor is it enterprise. It appears to be silicon. That is South Bay.
Interesting article...I think the real inmates are the goats here.
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Caveat.. not a ubuntu user here per se... But left because of some of the bloatware/opinonated stuff and it crashed a lot. Plus I like Antergos with i3-gnome better than anything I've ever used before... Much better performance, less crashes/bugs...etc..
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> Got some news for you. You are not representative of the people that the system failing. These things are luxuries to that demographic.

I don't believe that's true, no one is starving to death of their own choice in the US. No one is dying due to lack of emergency medical attention. Maybe you have an old crusty vehicle, but it does the job, maybe you have a 5+ year old computer, but again, it does the job. I know fresh out of college students with minimum wage jobs that have these things. I was one for quite some time.

These things are not true in all societies in the world. This is a comparatively high amount of luxury and one which I am damn appreciative of.

> Neither does a shitty, elitist attitude born of ignorance of the people you are attacking without even attempting to understand them.

Stop with the personal attacks. They're utter nonsense and completely irrelevant.
Yeah, that's what a "hard fork" means - it requires the nodes to actively choose it.
If you aren't the one attempting to falsify it, then you have no reason to argue over it to begin with, in which case you won't be making any ad hominem arguments to start with.
I would probably get drawn into more lengthy discussions.

It's important to note that when Richard said that Magit should be "part of Emacs", that really meant "part of GNU Elpa and/or GNU Emacs". If Magit is just made part of Elpa (which I believe is all that Richard wants), then that doesn't change much. We get protection at the cost of the assignment overhead.

But I already wanted to add parts of Magit to Emacs itself anyway. Low-level libraries that are useful beyond Magit itself, and which would benefit from being built-in. That includes some existing ui libraries but also new libraries I intend to write to replace old abstractions used in Magit, such as a file-handler for Git blobs and trees. Magit would benefit if other Git related packages used those, instead of everyone reinventing the wheel.

Once some code is part of Emacs itself it will be more difficult to change than if it were living in a separate repository. On the bright side, that would likely motivate me to write tools to make that process less painful.
> I prefer SMPlayer to VLC for simple playback

I'm curious: What's your opinion on mpv vs. SMPlayer?
The higher the %, the more expensive the market rate apartments have to be, which creates its own pressures. It also seems that every time a developer caves, no one is satisfied, and people are back demanding a higher number.
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I.e. you want to be able to program your editor in a Lisp, but nobody should upstream any such code into a distribution which accompanies the editor.
I think you got downvoted because you criticized bootcamps and basically claimed that they produce beginners. I dunno why, but people in these discussions tend to talk about skills in black and white - you are either awesome nearly genius or bad. Rarely somewhere in between and never on pro missing learning path. No one ever says that he is in the learning process now.

Interpreted from this point of view, you had put into camp of elitists who will write off any theoretically cheaper entry path to industry.
Be careful with these negative HN comments, they have cost me millions.

I first heard about bitcoin right here, when it hit $3 per coin for the first time. That was a huge event.

I had my own reservations about investing in bitcoin, but reading the comments here prejudiced my view.

VC's say it's not the losses that get to you, it's the companies you miss out on that scar you.

Not investing in Bitcoin at $3-5 was the single worst strategic decision of my life.

It was something that could have saved me years of toil, it was an easy ticket into the Big Game. A massive influx of economic energy, a fantastic counterstrike to entropy was right there, and it was easy. So easy to buy, granted it would have been not easy to hold through the dark times, the dips, the panic.

Oh, but if one did!

None of the hard work of starting a company, finding product-market fit, hiring a team, raising funds, fighting off the inevitable bandits that will come for their extortion money in the form of frivolous patent lawsuits...

None of that. Just easy, huge, beautiful, juicy investment capital right at my fingertips.

Oh the land that could have been bought! The development deals that would have flowed and the opportunities that could have been pursued. Instant entrance to Ruling Class, a ticket to the best club on earth.

'The most important men in town would come to fawn on me!
They would ask me to advise them,
Like a Solomon the Wise.
"If you please, Reb Tevye..."
"Pardon me, Reb Tevye..."
Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes!
And it won't make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong.
When you're rich, they think you really know!"'

- If I Were A Rich Man, Fiddler on the Roof

And it's that emotion thats fueling crypto asset valuations right now, along with actual riches created by people who didn't give in to the negativity, the doubt, the fear.

The thing has value. People like this thing. They like it all over the world. There are infinite uses for something like money + code + global computer networks.

And a thing doesn't have to be perfect or solve every problem to have value.

The standard that commenters here hold crypto to is not the same standard they hold startup companies to.

With companies if they do something some people like enough to use, they say wow what a success, look they are a real company with profits!

I mean even if the only use for crypto currency is regulatory/legal arbitrage, that's insanely valuable and would have merited an investment.