skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that's a matter of opinion, not consensus. Plenty of us have a different opinion, including people from some large corporations in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, who say they hope to put applications on the public Ethereum chain after scalability improves.
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Web Browser: GNOME Web

Email Client: -

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: -

File manager: GNOME Files

Basic Text Editor: Gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: -

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: GNOME Calendar

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: GNOME Music

Photo Viewer: gThumb

Screen recording: -
Another humble wish: a subl/vscode like ctrl+shift+p multifunctional menu, where you can write commands, launch things, etc.
I don't think the cognitive bias you're describing matches this scenario very well, because that bias appears to result when people don't acknowledge specialization versus overall intelligence.

Your first example seems like it maps well to that cognitive bias - someone assumes that a chess grandmaster has catch-all capability because they demonstrated expertise in one area, and then they flare out in an orthogonal area.

Mathematics and engineering (at least, computer science) overlap in many areas. If someone excels at mathematics it doesn't prove that they'd be good at programming, but I'd bet a significant amount of money that the mean mathematics major is more capable of programming than the mean population in general. If that holds, there's no bias in trying to cross-pollinate expertise, even if it ultimately doesn't work out.

A lot of the work that occurs in finance is legitimate mathematics and has very close ties to physics. The heat equation is directly used in Black-Scholes; securities can be modeled as stochastic processes, which means that much of the models that apply to Brownian motion also apply to them. Outside of quantitative derivatives pricing (and more recently), hedge funds can apply the same scientific computing techniques used by physicists and computational biologists to analyze vast amounts of data (more than they know what to do with).
Mushroom Networks extends its VNF WAN tools to partners
I think the answer to that question is extremely contextual and going to be very different for different applications. I also think that

I'd like to point out that the idea of including the library code within the contract is untennable at a certain level as contracts currently have an upper limit on size which is determined by the block gas limit. It also doesn't make it any safer because it's still functionally the same as executing external code because it's the same code being executed.
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They're bashing two things: crony capitalism where companies put up barriers to entry and try to weaken government anti-competition and consumer protection laws so they can f* people over, which makes people angry; and the "religious" idea that pure capitalism (sometimes also conflated with pure free market, no regulations) solves every single problem, the idea that all things are products, and if you can't afford a product, go f* yourself.

I think people understand the world is more complex than either planned economies, or pure free market ones, and hybrids are necessary. The question is how to make regulating them proactive rather than reactive which is how political based moderation of capitalism's excess are managed today.

And I think that's because people are becoming suspicious of absolute ideological positions that think they have everything figured out. And that's because things are more complex. Just because you can't explain that complexity doesn't mean it's intellectually honest to fall back on a hand waive of propaganda "we need less regulation and more free market solutions" which is binary logic.

Upon discovery that binary logic isn't how humans works, and maybe isn't how future computers will work, people are becoming more comfortable with nuance, layers, and dynamic approaches to problems, rather than tribal grunts of capitalism being perfection as if there's no such thing as market failure.
I think in GNOME it learns which one you use more frequently and have that first instead.
As you say, considering the clause is nothing but the authority to exercise the detail of existing powers
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2014/09/03/necessary-and-pro...

It would still be questionable that most regulation is actually within the enumerated powers.
https://fee.org/articles/are-there-no-limits-to-federal-regu...
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
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It was in the past, but it's not stalled anymore, since you can observe the gradual growth. I.e. more games are coming out for Linux, which in turn makes more people use it, which in turn brings more games. So it's improving.
I think one of the problems is that calculus teaches us the ideas that there's an construction called a derivative, but in reality there's lots of different kinds of derivatives with different semantics and types. For the vast amount of applied math and engineering work, the two we need are the total (Fréchet) derivative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_derivative#The_total_der...

By the way, most of that article is terrible, but the linear map definition is the one we want. There's also the directional (Gâteaux) derivative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_derivative

Candidly, unless you really know your problem, we virtually always want the total derivative since it gives rise to things like gradients and Hessians, which are useful objects that we can store in memory.

Now, the reason that I bring these two up is that their spaces, or really their types, are different. Given a function f:X->Y, the total derivative is a linear operator from X to Y:

(total) f'(x) \in L(X,Y)

The directional derivative is an element in the space Y:

(dir) f'(x;dx) \in Y

Now, at this point, the notation is screwed up since we used Lagrange notation for both. The reason that we can get away with this is that under certain assumptions, that are mostly satisfied in the things we care about, we have that:

f'(x)dx = f'(x;dx)

Alright, so why should we care? Leibniz and Newton notation do a terrible job at capturing this information. Lagrange and Euler notation do a good job at this. For your example:

f(x0) = d/dx (sin(x)cos(x)+x^2) | x=x0

The types don't line up because sin(x)cos(x)+x^2 is value, literally a real number, not a function. Using the above, I would write this as:

(x \in R |-> sin(x)cos(x)+x^2)'(x0)

In LaTeX |-> would be \mapsto. This types correctly in the definitions above since

x \in R |-> sin(x)cos(x)+x^2 \in [R -> R]

and

(x \in R |-> sin(x)cos(x)+x^2)'(x0) \in L(R,R)

Of course, you probably wanted the value and not the function, which explains why we cheat in 1-D. So, we really should write:

(x \in R |-> sin(x)cos(x)+x^2)'(x0) 1 \in R

where we feed it the direction 1. And, yes, this is slightly more cumbersome that we may want, which is why there's a huge number of different notations. However, I do assert that the above generalizes properly all the way into infinite dimensions (Hilbert spaces) and provides a good foundation for typing out mathematical codes.

By the way, if anyone is looking for a book that does this right in my opinion, Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis" is amazing and his notation is good. For infinite dimensions, I prefer Zeidler's "Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Its Applications." Personally, what I look for is what I call properly typed notation that gives us easy access to useful tools like gradients, Taylor series, chain rule, and implicit and inverse function theorems. Again, most engineering and applied math work requires these theorems everywhere, so I find it best to keep them clean.
There are a handful of web-based UIs that have been built. And I believe Hashicorp offers one with their enterprise product. But from what I can gather they all still have a bit more of a learning curve than your average password manager.
Check out the jobs. React + entourage is all over the place. If I'm teaching a beginner who wants to enter the job market he's going to have to learn the whole stack.
... and now? Where is the course material? Where can I get the soft core?

I suggest you to look at RISC-V or OpenRISC 1200. It might not have the course material at the momnent, but the core is available. Help to create the teaching material based of this... ?
I wonder how well you could do with a planned town and a hyperloop or high-speed rail line? Offering a 1-hour commute to somewhere 150 miles away from San Francsico sounds like a risky-but-worthwhile development.

Difficulty would obvious vary quite a lot by city, and I imagine NYC is basically irreparable since you can't even get a line into it. But it would at least have potential for less dense locations.
Used to spend 40+ min in Austin traffic. I don't believe that people working in tech should have to commute, since all the work can be accomplished over the Internet. Yet, several friends of mine are not allowed to work from home (SysAdmins and Developers), and so have to endure the pain of commute for no reason.
It is pretty easy to deploy these models on Algorithmia.
The Top 15 Examples of Gamification in Healthcare
Council on Foreign Relations: The World Next Week, The President's Inbox

Financial Times: World Weekly, The Money Show, Alphachat

BBC: The World This Week, Analysis, In Our Time, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Public Philosopher, A History of Ideas

Philosophy: The Partially Examined Life, Philosophy Bites,
The Philosopher's Zone, The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps

Others:

The Carnegie Podcast

Radio Atlantic

Guardian Books

Guardian Science Weekly
Bank of America exec discussed for Uber CEO role
I'm really looking forward to seeing how native GNOME will look with official Ubuntu support and not as a community flavor.

Anyways, here's my request list:

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Web Browser: Firefox, Vivaldi (people keep claiming it's open source, so look into it)

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: GNOME default

IDE: LOL

(Serious answer is VSCode since it seems to be a nice in-between for a full IDE and a simple text editor)

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: No preference

IRC/Messaging Client: HexChat

PDF Reader: No preference

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Thunderbird, No preference

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: RhythmBox, Spotify (maybe just a downloader program - don't include the full install out of the box)

Photo Viewer: No preference

Screen recording: No preference

Games: Include Steam out of the box?

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This list also comes with the usual stuff like dump Systemd, continue working on MESA drivers/networking drivers/drivers in general, etc.

Hope to see some great stuff in 17.10!
I didn't have backyard until I moved to America and we bought a house. People very rarely used their backyards including kids, but it was great for having people over once in a while. Parks were always more fun growing up because other kids would be there too. But I realize the the culture shift of being more protective of children and not letting them out on their own when younger makes visiting parks more difficult.
How Ben Silbermann Started Pinterest
I would not consider property values abstract in any sense of the word, especially when your "concrete" fears directly affect those values.

Writing off the whole notion that people fear their property value falling is illogical.
An Interview with John Paquette, Lead Developer at Vistaprint
Agreed - there is still a huge hurdle of connecting all the fiefdoms of healthcare - my colleague calls it the connectivity problem: https://www.redoxengine.com/blog/the-connectivity-problem

When someone asks us to integrate with a small EHR, the first thing we look at is ONC certification. We at least know that they meet some base level of functionality.
Preparing for Dart 2.0
Wanted to read this, but unfortunately I can't. Damn you, Javascript..
Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
y4mi didn't say that capitalism was the system that had created the greatest scale, merely that capitalism was the system that had worked best at scale. So China's system can create a bigger economy than the USA? Fine. (And the new, non-Maoist system has lifted something like a quarter of a billion people out of poverty, which is an amazing achievement.) But can it create a per-capita income similar to the USA's? So far, no, not even close. So China is not actually a refutation of y4mi's point, and won't be for quite some time.

Why can't China's system produce a better per-person outcome than the USA's? Well, China was starting from a much lower point after western domination, then Japanese invasion, then civil war, and then Mao's blundering and oppression. But apart from that, China's government has too much power. This gives too many opportunities for corruption, and corruption drains the life out of the economy. (And yes, the USA's government has too much power, too. The USA (I think) less corrupt than China, but the corruption is there, at least in the form of people using the government's power to hinder competitors. More direct forms are starting to show up, too, or at least we're starting to hear about them more than we used to.

What system really works? A government strong enough that it can prevent people abusing the market (collusion, fraud, unsafe products), but not so strong that it's easy or useful to use the government as a mechanism of abuse, and not so cumbersome that it gets much in the way of normal (non-fraudulent, non-collusion, safe products) business.
Ask HN: Am I right or just procrastinating?
I already know python and Flask but I have this burning desire to switch over to Ruby on Rails. Everything about it seems so appealing and time-saving, from the documentation to the quality of support sites like rubygems. Flask/django have nothing like this and are such a mess in comparison. Is learning a new language/framework worth the time investment or am I just addicted to wasting time?
If the winning techniques continue to generate greater risk-adjusted returns than the market for a significant amount of time, you haven't really bypassed the whole, "finding alpha" bit. Unless of course you've spun up a truly absurd number of funds, but I'd find that harder to believe than just beating the market in the first place given the capital requirements.

"Fuzzing" for alpha that way would be really inefficient.
By adding supply, you will bring down prices or at least stabilize them.

This is what all the economic literature on the subject says.

Of course, it may not seem like you're making a dent, because housing has been so badly undersupplied there for so long.
NTLM Hash Leaks: Ancient Microsoft Design Flaw
Alright guys, I tried using this as I was curious, and miserably failed.

Found out I needed GPG, and some encryption key or ID and whatnot. I have no clue what these things are and would like to know.

How can I learn about this encryption stuff like keys and RAS and whatnot? (Books n Articles)
Not quite that, but rather vigilantes mugging you when you're most vulnerable, and then returning the money later when they're confident you can safely hold onto it.

I wonder if the vigilantes will return the money with interest...
That was my first thought, but the article sort of doesn't support that?

Like, this is an expensive lifestyle. Gas and new cars are obviously very pricy, but even with busses and biking this isn't a cheap way to live. Most of the people mentioned are working upper middle class jobs but want to own desirable or spacious land. That's an outlook I very much don't have.

I've known people in the other situation, doing 1-3 hours of commuting because they had no choice. But it mostly seems to be about limited transit access, like taking a 10 mile trip that takes two hours because there's no direct bus route, or getting two jobs far from home and one another.
I'd really like to ask for a "nothing, thanks" option.

The main reason I use xubuntu is because it offers a xubuntu-core package that comes with the desktop, apt and /nothing else/.

When I installed unity version of ubuntu, the install was always followed with about an hour of uninstalling shite I didn't care about. The new unity uninstall dialogue never worked correctly, and uninstalling 5 things in a row would cause it to lose track of what was installed and start duplicating entries. When I install a fresh system, I really want it to be fresh.
> I had never even heard of a semaphore

I deal with this a lot as a programmer who doesn't have a comp sci degree. I know what a semaphore is, I just don't call it a semaphore and I didn't know that it was called a "semaphore". I have been happily chugging along calling these "control variables"
A genuine long term Ubuntu fan, not used Windows since Vista. Happy with everything. Let's have a look at what I left behind:

Web Browser: IE6

Email Client: Outlook Express

Terminal: putty

IDE: MS Studio

File manager: Explorer

Basic Text Editor: Notepad

IRC/Messaging Client: Skype

PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat

Office Suite: MS Office

Calendar: Outlook

Video Player: RealPlayer

Music Player: Winamp

Photo Viewer: Cracked copy of Photoshop

Screen recording: Print screen key

I don't use alternative programs to the above, I don't write Word docs or need to as communication has changed. I don't have an email client.

My point is that this list of defaults is stuck in the past, we use computers differently and need an updated list of default applications. There should be a default app for your phone and what happens when you plug it in. There should be built in IoT apps too, so your computer can be at the heart of gadgets you get for the home.
At an accessory level, tooling and ecosystem richness — which I don't really hold against Vue, because it'll definitely get there in time.

At a slightly more existential level, I miss how lightweight React components are: they're literally just functions, which makes breaking them out really frictionless. If I've got a FooWidget and I want to break out the header of the widget out into a new component, it's incredibly trivial to do — as opposed to Vue, which forces you to create a new file for it, register that component in the namespace, etc.

(I wrote about this a little more in depth here: http://jmduke.com/posts/what-vue-needs-next/)
One thing that occurred to me is that if Einstein or Shannon hadn't discovered their respective theories, someone else would have. It probably wouldn't have taken very long, either.

I'm not sure what to do with this information, but it seems true.
Agree. It really doesn't matter to me what Ubuntu is shipped with. If they're going to spend anytime on this, why not just build a quickie wizard for installation to pick what you want?

A screen with selection of Chromium, Firefox, etc. With a default selected of course.

Users can breeze through it if they just want defaults.
It transforms them from individual characters being put together to approximate symbols into the actual symbols. The act of joining together particular character combinations into more aesthetically pleasing forms is common and very old practice.

It looks odd only because we're accustomed to seeing the individual characters due to display limitations inherited from typewriters and TTY machines.
> If you have enough different attempts, one of them will beat the market by sheer game of chance.

How do you define an "attempt", and how many "attempts" do you need to beat the market (consistently) by chance?
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Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox

Email Client: none

Terminal: default

IDE: Atom

File manager: nautilus

Basic Text Editor: nano

IRC/Messaging Client: none

PDF Reader: default

Office Suite: google apps

Calendar: none

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Spotify, non-free

Photo Viewer: default

Screen recording: Kazam

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> I hope parent commentor clarifies this

I can't edit my comment; sorry. I meant "your project's code".
> Wealth follows the wealthy, and most of the wealth in the US rests in very few hands, much of it offshore and in other ways hidden from taxation. If they leave, the "wealth" leaves with them for the most part.

All true enough, but I'm not convinced the wealthy would leave the US en masse as it gradually declines in power and we enter a more multi-polar world, with the dollar possibly losing reserve status at some point. Where would they go, China? I think in the scenario where the US is less powerful compared to the rest of the world, it's still a very attractive place to live in many ways (edit: especially for Americans).
The 100 hour rule
Capitalism didn't start in 1750. Look at Italy in, IIRC, the 1200s.
Seconded. I swore by Inconsolata for the better part of a decade but within days of installing Iosevka I had it set up in every editor or terminal on all of my computers. And it supports programming ligatures!
Some of this is responding to you but I think it got a little away from what I originally was going to say :)

I agree Manhattan real estate can be crazy expensive but there are plenty more affordable apartments in Harlem, Brooklyn, Long Island and Queens. They are still expensive compared to the national average but I live in one of those areas and pay a third of what many of my friends do that live in UW/LW/UE/LE sides.

From this article it seems the most important things to them are the space and schools they are able to get from moving outside of manhattan. Which is nice but certainly a personal preference. I value things to do over my commute so I actually live in NYC and do an hour to work outside of the city.

Either way, what do you think they're missing out living in some place like Bethlehem? Most people move there because there is nothing there, and as someone who has spent some time, there really is nothing to do there. Most cities have parks, rec leagues etc. for kids to enjoy. Not having a yard won't deprive you kid of most activities besides not having to walk a few blocks to find somewhere to play.
For many cases one can ignore division, but yes, as the article said that generally required an abacus.

Multiplication doesn't in general require an abacus if you're trained in roman numerals. Let's take your "more complicated numbers", 42 * 13.

Expand XLII * XIII = X * XLII + XLII + XLII + XLII, the first requires you to know a times table to see that it's CDXX, the rest you'd add mentally, LLL - XXX = CXX, so it's CDXX + CXXVI = DXLVI. Five hundred forty six.

Like, I'm not saying it's as clean as 42 * 13 = 420 + 126 = 546, it's not. But it's not educationally prohibitive either.
Just read the "contractor" section well worth the $0.99.
> "Letters he didn’t want to respond to went into a bin labeled “Letters I’ve Procrastinated On For Too Long.” ... Inbox zero, be damned."

moving things to folders is... the definition of "inbox zero"?
With a non junior tech salary you can have a half hour commute and get your own apartment. It's not bad unless you want to live 15 mins from your job.

I've done more than fine here with $80k and $100k, but maybe I have a cheaper lifestyle than most.