skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to fill out the "maybe" part of his "If you answer yes three times, then maybe starting a startup is for you" bit.

I answer a very strong yes to all three of those. Always have. But a startup, despite my always having worked in them and run one of my own for three years, was resolutely not a good idea for me.

It took a lot of self-discovery to see myself not as an entrepreneur, but as an artist, and it's frustrating, because it sure took me a while to admit it. I spent all my time and money and effort trying to be successful as a startup founder, and expecting that I'd eventually feel the spark that I know can drive me. But now I look at the creative work I do on my own, even though I still have a full-time job, and I feel the same connection that Michael describes here, which I had chased for so long.

The irony is that pretty much every idea I have uses the technical skills i built as a startup founder. But hey. Time to do what I always should have.
That dude's read a lot of DFW.
Images don't need to be stored in this format on disk, the format is for transport/interchange.

But out of curiosity, why do you say that a dependency graph would be better here?

In terms of on disk storage and transport of layers, the layers are already content addressed.
One hand if ALL papers were forced to be published without authors then all shity papers would dissapear (which is 80% of current lot), there will be no "publish or perish" and lot of eliteness and egoism will go away.

On other hand, how do you decide if person is worth talking to? worth collaborating? worth giving tenure? The problem exacerbates when supply side dominates many magnitudes over demand side. This is precisely why we as human always keep establishing trust relationships that allows us to filter out signals from noise. You monitor writings of people you know have produced stuff on interests, not every random thing out there.
waterfox allows unsigned extensions.

It seems to me disabling the xpinstall.signatures.required setting has no effect anymore, at least the last time I tried using it, it had no effect.
I quit coke thanks to /r/stopspeeding (and some other things in real life). 71 days sober
Genes, Phenotypes and Operators in Evolutionary Computation [pdf]
I imagine their reasoning is similar to The Economist's for having anonymous bylines:

"The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, our editor from 1938 to 1956, anonymity keeps the editor 'not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself…it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle.'"

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/e...
Why do you think that the court system somehow doesn't apply to what happens on ethereum ?
I'd disagree, I've filed probably 15 in the past 7 years for obscure bugs and all of them were fixed. They don't respond and the fixes take a long time, but I'm pretty sure they are listening.
The last photo of the post features a girl giving the finger towards the camera.
The author of the blog should know that taking a picture of someone without their consent is considered as quite rude in Japan.
Go to any Michelin star restaurant. The last thing they care about is nutritional value. Their primary concern is taste.

Food quality is defined by taste, not nutritional value. This applies both at the low end and high end.
I actually think eth has a lot of potential, but I don't think he's saying crypto is a bubble. He's probably talking about the ICO "bubble", which isn't a controversial thing to claim. Eth has already halved in value in the last month which is mostly put down to the crazy value being pumped into ICO's slowing down.
Actually, allow the registration of up to 5 distance, including xn--* tlds translated... then require anyone registering closer than that to have an EV cert... Have the price set to $20K-$100K/year per order of distance. For a banking establishment, or mega site, it should be reasonable.

The option for anyone too close would be to get an EV cert... also requiring EV for any domain within a distance of 4 to alexa top 100, 3 to the alexa top 1000 and 2 to the top 10000 would be a good start.
Well yeah, as long as there are cars, people will get in car accidents... That doesn't mean we should ride horse buggies forever.
Lots of fishes have worms. In the Bay Area/Northern CA I fish for Pacific jack mackerel, and practically every fish has worms. I don't think they are considered bottom fishes, though.
I don't; if I assume the worst, I hammer every storage device I own, and throw the remaining hardware into the dumpster, and basically start dumpster diving for 1980's computer equipment - because the worst is that they're out to get me, and have already infiltrated everything I own.
At least most things that come in a six pack taste good
Such anecdotal evidence is invalid. Try the scientific method instead.
Agreed. Cancer is random and having a genetic likelihood of a treatment-resistant cancer reduces the chance of that sequence spreading. Unlike cancer, bacteria and viruses mutate as they move through the population and slowly become resistant to everything we throw at them. Being treatment resistant is a help, not a hinderance to their genetic propagation.

With growing global density and antibiotic abuse, it's the things like MRSA and syphilis that are likely to never disappear.
It's now disportionately impacting white people, and in the 80s-90s it was disproportionately impacting black people which the US govt and media used to paint a negative image. So now it's hitting closer to home, so it's getting more attention and treated with a lot more sympathy.
Frankly one of the main responsibilities of CEO is money. Have it, and/or
Raise it, and/or sell for it.
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You sound very biased on this.
What I don't like about monero, and why I think it'll ultimately lose to another anon product, is that the transaction history is written to the blockchain, albeit in obfuscated form. But there is no proof on the bounds of what a sophisticated blockchain analysis can uncover given enough information. Roughly speaking, its conceivable that given enough transaction information downstream from a transaction of interest might reveal a "most likely" pairing of an address with a transaction. Or perhaps a global analysis of the monero blockchain along with traditional blockchain analysis could reveal a most likely pairing of all transactions with addresses. The point is that without such a proof I'm not sure how much people will trust it compared to a protocol with such a proof (say zcash). Your exposure to future analysis is essentially indefinite.
It's ironic: the above reply is the first time you've responded to something I actually wrote. I almost admire the fact that it's impossible to tell whether I'm being trolled or whether you are actually like this.
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The problem isn't just emulating the IQ of a typical human brain - which is a low bar, for the most part - but creating a transcendentally smart general intelligence.

Considering that we still have many issues with basic computing - not least working out how to write code that works reliably without constant manual updates - the suggestion that we're going to start building self-improving crash-proof hyperbrains any time soon is wishful thinking.

Realistically, we don't have the first clue how to start solving that problem. As of 2017 "Throw deep learning at it" is more of a fashion statement than a practical solution.
What do you mean by dehumanization? How is that happening?
> Because there's nothing magical about the human brain.

Perhaps not "magical", but the human brain exists in a very unique situation because it's the only one we're trying to understand with other instances of itself.
Yes, but the point I'm making is that we can't know if he was taking some potent opiate along with his kratom. Kratom is used by many specifically because of its quick and mild withdrawal symptoms, which is why people on strong opiates use kratom to come off of their hard opiates. That's why it's suspect when people talk about lengthy, strong withdrawals, which are very uncharacteristic of unadulterated kratom. And buying from "a reputable vendor" doesn't mean anything if they aren't testing what they're selling. I know of at least one extremely popular and highly-rated vendor that knowingly sold adulterated kratom in the United States, and I have the test results documentation to prove it. So while I can say with certainty that what I'm putting in my body is not adulterated, these other people with (wildly outlier) anecdotal stories of very hard withdrawals can't say the same thing. And in fact, the anecdotal evidence -- uncharacteristically strong and/or lengthy withdrawals -- would seem to point to having consumed something with some kind of adulterant opiate or potentiator (or both) added for potency purposes. The fact is, this happens far more often than people are willing to admit, and of course everybody's counterpoint story comes with the "it wouldn't happen to me" fallacy. But the fact remains: I can prove that I'm consuming unadulterated kratom (and having almost no withdrawal symptoms with a fairly high, regular dose). These other people cannot.
dead fish and dead worms and dead bacteria and dead...

bring on the protein.
What crime? Are you assuming there is some crime?
Raise the price and make the free tier run out at 500 total (not/month) PDFs. Send out emails asking for CC when users hit 250, 350, 400 etc. If they hit 500 + grace, cut service.
This thread is fascinating to me as someone who learned stats as an undergrad using Lisp, and then learned S, and then learned about and starting using R, and read all of these forewarnings by Ihaka and Tierney.

The current era is both exciting and dispiriting from this perspective. It seems like there's a lot of traction in this area with languages like Julia, OCaml, Nim, to name just a few, which is wonderful. The discussions here are great in this regard. However, it's somewhat frustrating that warnings like the linked piece -- that have been around for a long time -- seem to have been ignored. My personal experience, too, is that many of the claims of recent languages regarding "C-like" speed are maybe overstated; my sense is that the slowest toy benchmarks are accurate reflections of the bottlenecks that will slow down a large program. For small programs, they are C-like; as program/library length increases, you start to approach Python or R speeds, which makes me wonder if it's better to just use C to begin with.

Relying on wrapped C, like in Numpy, is also misleading because eventually you end up bumping up against part of the program that can't be pushed down into lower-level code.

I often wish that x-lisp-stat had taken off rather than R. I love both in their syntax, but in retrospect, it seemed like there was a fork in the path of numerical computing, either toward a more "native" approach, the other toward a model where a high-level language is used to interface with a low-level language, to abstract away some of the complexity. I understand the rationale for both, but kinda feel like the latter approach, which has become more dominant, isn't really sustainable. Moreover, this is all occurring while I've watched C++ become impressively abstracted--if things like Eigen had been around earlier, I'm not sure Python or R would have ascended as much as they have.

The "new" issue that seems to be arising all the time in these discussions is parallel GC models and implementations. Not sure where this will all lead. If it's lisp I'm going to spit out my drink.
Your mistake is believing that people invest in self-driving cars as a sort of charity or social service in the same way as drug clinics. Even if that were the case, I think there's a reasonable case to be made that solving self-driving cars would be a better lives-saved/$ investment than opioids. Even if it was a comparable investment, it wouldn't make addicts as socially-productive a group as crash victims--this would take tens/hundreds of millions more in social services.

Even neglecting that, crash victims are more worthy (on average) than overdose victims, as they come into their fate largely on accident, while overdose victims largely make an informed choice to roll the dice. I don't like saying this; it sounds judgmental and it certainly won't be popular, but this is the logical conclusion. Fortunately, the choice between self-driving cars and combatting the opioid epidemic doesn't remotely hinge on this point.
IIRC there is no significant rendering times differences, there is a perceived difference though. Too bad I don't have the URL of the test but it was featured on HN a little while ago.
You definitely have to work more and learn more if you think being rejected from interview equals breaking laws :\
This is a very US-centric perspective: in most common law countries, jury trials have been all but abolished for contractual interpretation cases.
or as pg says if you don't want to die then don't quit.
have you tried vivaldi ?
Yep, I've heard a few pitches involving bitcoin or blockchains that came across as a hammer pivoting in search of a nail.
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"Yes. This is how capitalism works. If there is an inefficiency in the market, there is an opportunity for a competitor to beat you on price or quality. If AWS is not incorporating these efficiencies into their tech, then Microsoft Azure will and beat them by providing either a cheaper or higher quality service."

Not that I'm saying Filecoin or a decentralised storage coin is in any way the way forward or even a competitor.. but saying that is how capitalism works is such rubbish.

In an ideal system you are right, but how often have you worked for a company that is raking in the cash by marketing well and being the "established" hand in the market?

There are so many companies kicking around that are the biggest player in their field that continue to make bank because accountants and upper management decide they are the proven, safe pick in the market and have signed up for long, entrenched software packages.

Also, if this upended the entrenched business model companies were using, they would not be able to quickly switch to it.

There are plenty of ways this could be the a better solution and AWS wouldn't switch to it, saying capitalism proves this is not a good argument.
> while overdose victims largely make an informed choice to roll the dice

Don't most people develop an opioid addiction after being prescribed insufficient pain medication by their doctor? After that, sure, once they realize that getting more opioids - much more than they ought to, medically or legally - is literally the only way to stop the daily pain?
It seems to me that large blockchains^ are some of the most stable social structures in existence. The rules of Bitcoin have been in place for 8 years with only minor modifications, despite huge sums of money passing through the system.

This compares very favourably with other social structures, such as nation states, especially 8 year old nation states.

^ Large as in Bitcoin and Ethereum, smaller networks are much easier to manipulate.
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> if the program does not terminate within 30 seconds?

As I attempted to say in my previous comment, undecidability[1] isn't limited to deciding if a program will halt (or even the weaker question of if it will halt in a given finite time). Recursively enumerable[2] languages that require a Turing machine to automate have an intrinsic complexity (i.e. any Turing-complete language). This isn't a "work harder to solve it" level of complexity; some behavior will always be undecidable.

You might experience this problem in the traditional form of the "Halting Problem" where the question "Will this program halt?" may be answered with "I don't know, it's still running" in addition to "yes" or "no". However, this level of complexity can also cause unexpected output due to subtle interactions inside the program that are difficult to predict from the source. Some behaviors are provably unknowable.

You can avoid this problem by using a simpler class of language. Regular languages (which "regular expression" match[3]) are safe, as are deterministic context-free[4] languages. You may find the lack of loops limiting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy#Type-0_gramm...

[3] basic regexp, not PCRE or other language-sepcific extensions!

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar#Undecidab...
Then you shouldn't be working on it. If you can't be humble, you should not be working on things that can hurt people because you're creating risk for them that they can't actually measure. (It's why I consciously avoid such projects; knowing one's propensity to arrogance makes it unethical not to.)

If it's important, you need to be good. If it's very important, you need to be good and sure.
Which decisions? The only one I can think of is Web Extensions, and like I said, the reason behind that is not to copy Chrome, but because the old system was _terrible_ and hindered progress, and since they needed something new anyway, basing it off of Chrome was a way to get a large set of new addons working on it off the bat.
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> I think the point is that if mutability and trusted third party oversight is actually usually a necessary and desired fraud prevention feature in a payments system, there's probably not huge demand to replicate all that using blockchains whose most-touted virtue is immutability and trustlessness

I'd argue that rarely in meatspace finance is the consensus mechanism considered separately from the other aspects of a currency that matter. Consensus at changing aspects of a currency typically fall upon a government organization which has its own politically-driven, non-transparent consensus mechanism.

In meatspace, we have things like bankruptcy law and its derivatives to help preserve order when contracts unwind.

Of course, provisions for unwinding an agreement in an orderly way are part of any sophisticated financial deal. Meatspace contracts bootstrap on existing legal interpretations and regulations, but those things mainly add convention, repeatability, and predictability to the behavior of the contract.

So when (if ever) does the consensus mechanism in a fiat currency actually matter? I'd argue that it matters when the sh*t hits the fan, when there is an economic shock and widespread demand for action. This is when the stupidest decisions get made and the rule of law is the weakest.

Hedging against these stupid decisions adds tremendous cost and friction to meatspace financial deals. While it may feel right for regulators to "make whole" certain parties, that is not necessarily in the interest of the rule of law. It's far better if the various contingencies are addressed before the fact so that they can be priced in accurately.

Systems like Ethereum have the potential to create (over time) a set of useful and inviolable rules that can allow transactions to take place without the costly hedging against stupid, knee-jerk decisions by regulators.

In order for parties to willingly enter into contracts, the desirable state is not that later some wise overlords will take a look at the contract and make a fair decision about some yet-to-be-determined aspect of it. The desirable state is for the contract itself to be 100% trustworthy.

Of course, with the infamous hard fork, Ethereum failed at this once, but ETC exists now in tandem, so the two governance approaches can compete on their merits.

Distributed blockchain consensus give us a more transparent consensus mechanism than ever before, which is crucial to democracy. On this bedrock, it will likely be possible to create a world where we truly have the rule of law, not the rule of men.

The point here is not that smart contracts are "law", it's that the execution of a contract should take place in an unbiased VM, and the transparency and consensus mechanism of ETH ensures that.
Do you mean a native pdf viewer or any pdf viewer including the javascript one? It's very convinient to open pdf:s in the same tab and not having to download a file and open it in an external viewer.
Try again from a brand new user account, chances are this issue will go away.
> I don't think this can be argued away.

I'm not arguing that away.

I'm saying that it doesn't imply firefox is copying Chrome.

There are tradeoffs here. The team weighed them and made a decision. It was not about copying Chrome.

> It also prevents valid use-cases such as modifying the UI, download management, implementing novel network protocols (think ipfs) and integrating it with the internal network request APIs.

Not necessarily, webextension APIs that provide better scoped hooks to this can be added. Except perhaps the novel network protocols one. But it depends.
Why don't you go solve it? Who are you waiting for? Maybe some of us wanna work on self-driving cars. I often see people lamenting about the world's problem. Waiting for someone else to solve it. If you find it so disappointing, go for it! You can do it!
I can't even understand what you are all talking about. Crazy kids. I'm not even kidding. Usually I can figure out what the topic of conversation is if I'm not familiar with it, but in this case I'm like three degrees removed from comprehension.

Sounds like this is all probably dot com bullshit, but maybe something genius will come out of it that is unforeseen now.
I just skipped upgrading firefox, it's broken under debian anyway.
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Yes. There's some details here:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/03/24/apfss-bag-of-bytes-filena...

The clearest explanation is in one of the updates on that page:

"The most obvious problems arose with iOS users who transferred files from Windows (which prefers a different normalisation form to HFS+) which were named using Korean and other character sets, although this even included European languages with accented characters like ñ and é. There’s a chilling series of messages on the Apple Developer Forums in which an iOS app developer details how users running iOS 10.3 were transferring files using iTunes for Windows, but could not access those files once they were on an iOS device."
You don't think financing your spouse education is a gamble? Who is to say you won't get divorced right after she's done? That's honorable, but at the same time a huge risk.