skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In philosophy, it's called an "aristoteles dixit" (Aristotle said), based on the fact that it was often considered proof enough in middle age if an argument was defended by Aristotle.

As a meta-meta-comment, this is one of the things I like the most about HN : we don't see any avatar and nicknames are not obvious, so we consider arguments before considering who made them.
I don't see it as a social network at all. It is a tool allowing you to communicate and collaborate with people you already know.
This video cut of about ten minutes at the front. The full video is here: https://youtu.be/IRphJ7_FJO0

The full playlist of the conf: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6rm2vBxfJAs...
Seems like UPS Access Point and whatever the equivalent FedEx program is called already mostly solve this for me.

If I'm not home, UPS leaves the package at a nearby participating business (which you can select from a list online if you wish). I picked a check cashing place that's already on my walk home. It's free and they'll hold packages for something like two weeks.

I guess YMMV if you're not in an urban center.
Maybe it's laggy because apps in Unity are written in c# instead of c+?
Dear downvoter, do u care to elaborate?
Better than my apartment. Packages just get thrown on the floor in the lobby and it's a free for all
After all that I was expecting her to share her strategy for finally getting justice, you know, in order to help other victims reading the article. So basically this only serves to dissuade other victims from even trying to get help...
Ask HN: Do you have a website that didn't get accepted by Amazon Affiliates?
I am curious if anyone submitted a website to the amazon affiliates program but didn't get approved. What was the reason?
The repository was submitted, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872418
I have a ~5-year old PC that was around $1,250 new. KSP still runs without issues. I don't know the frame rate but it's not low enough to affect performance in any meaningful way.

More importantly, as others have stated, the performance has really improved over the last 12-18 months. Give it a shot again and you might be surprised.
No need to point this out. Google can do whatever they want to . Once Google, Amazon or FB targets you, your company is doomed. Maybe not immediately, but most definitely eventually.
Sure but that can be said of any speculative trader going long on an asset. It doesn't make it a bubble.
HotelFlex lets you check in and out of a hotel at whatever time you want
Check out this graph of monthly active users:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/facebook-earnings-q2-2017/

Over the past two years, the number of users has grown by around 30%. Rich areas like US and Europe have only grown 13%. So if revenue per user was static then I would expect Facebook's total revenue growth to be around 20%. Instead revenue has grown more than 100%, which suggests that Facebook is extracting much more $ per user.
One thing that makes the dollar more "real" is that you are required to pay taxes in it. This creates an automatic demand for dollars. Even if you make your money in bitcoin in US, you need some dollars to pay your taxes or risk being thrown in jail. There is no such "intrinsic" value for bitcoin.
You'll probably need to research backed-up numbers to confirm that. Yes, I do believe the same too (most bitcoin activity is used for illicit activity) but we don't really have the numbers yet and I am not sure if it is possible to do it.
Ravens’ John Urschel retires from NFL b/c of latest concussion study
Ah yes, because after a hard day of programming I want to come home and relax by programming.
It's not a binary thing. I would say perhaps 90% of bitcoin's current market value is speculation. But bitcoin does have some use cases, and as such it does have intrinsic value. The question is, how much?
It fully recovered. I moved here in '12 from L.A. with a job that had the same pay, but the cost of living is probably close to half of California, so it was like having my salary doubled overnight. IMHO this place is a paradise for engineers who care about actual work life balance.

NC's growth has slipped in the last couple years, though, because of the HB2 nonsense. It'll be a few years before we recover our image.
Having played early in the beta, and then picked it up again this year, I discovered the new need for antennas when my unmanned craft couldn't receive the commands to complete its orbital insertion around Duna.

I was... not pleased.
Right, this is a very nice project, but obviously not ready for a 1.0 release.
I am frustrated by the lack of technical documentation. For this kind of decentralized projects, full transparency is required.

It took some time before I understood the foundation blocks of the Ring network, using [0] and [1], and yet I'm quite unhappy:

* Many items are very lightly documented, or even "to be disclosed" ;

* The main website does not provide any insight about Ring's internals ;

* Especially, the name registration service is quite obscure and currently not decentralized according to the doc [0].

Thanks for the project though, and good luck!

[0]: https://tuleap.ring.cx/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/ring/index.php...

[1]: https://tuleap.ring.cx/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/ring/index.php...
Most people understand that crypto is in a bubble, but that doesn't mean that extreme value won't be attained. There was a dotcom bubble because of speculation, but it was merely a timing issue. It took another 5-6 years before companies started extracting the value to match the speculation and the bubble just couldn't stay in tact long enough. If you could invest in "The Internet" as a concept back in 1999 you would be rich today because the value has skyrocketed way past that bubble. If you think Bitcoin is going to last 20 years then it doesn't matter if we are in a bubble, you should buy some. Maybe it goes down for a while, but if it's around in 20 years it is almost certainly going to be worth way more than it is today.
We don't need fancy graphics - we need all the data, always.

The primary shortcoming of current scientific papers is that they're too short. They're written to physically fit into a paper journal, but their brevity massively impairs efforts to validate and replicate research. We're taught in high school science class that a paper should include all the information needed to replicate a study, but in practice that simply isn't true. Our methods of publication haven't kept pace with the complexity of modern research and analysis methods. Failure to replicate and research misconduct is eroding the foundations of science.

In 2017, the appendices of a paper should include everything - the full dataset, complete lab notes, full source code, the works.
Show HN: DeepQuiz – generate quiz questions from arbitrary text
I think the price of bitcoin is hugely, immensely overvalued (because you can buy things with it at even fewer stores now than a few years ago). That doesn't mean I don't think it will be twice as overvalued in the future.
>remedial action for some reason is always rewarded in troubled big corps.
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>for some reason

I would go out on a limb to say it's definitional. A troubled Big Corp is troubled precisely because it focuses on the wrong thing.
I'm getting the macOS gatekeeper alert about "unidentified developer". Obviously this can be bypassed by right-clicking and choosing open, but don't the libreoffice developers code-sign LibreOffice.app (anymore) ?
Hi,

Here is an extremely early stage project that a friend and I have been working on this summer. DeepQuiz generates quiz questions from user-submitted text. Currently we're using a combination of statistical analysis and heuristic rules to do this - no machine learning. The main point in its favor right now is that it's free to use and pretty fast.

We would really appreciate your feedback, as well as ideas for how it could be better, and types of generated questions you would like to see. The system does best with English text.
Show HN: MIDI / MPE Visualiser with 5D Touch ROLI Devices
Thank you for contributing! I love KSP, and Mechjeb helped me get past the frustrating stage of learning the basics. I usually only use it for TWR and ΔV now but I think I'd have given up without it at first.
I've been using Redhat/CentOS as long as they have existed. I recently started converting all my VPS nodes to Alpine Linux for these reasons.

I don't imagine that happening at work any time soon. Our tooling is too heavily entrenched in CentOS. We've looked at CoreOS, but have a long way to go to containerize hundreds of chef roles. The containers are using CentOS; and in some cases, Alpine as the base.
See https://tuleap.ring.cx/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/ring/index.php...
Exactly! With a comparable price tag, Chromebook doesn't have advantages (if any), let alone of the Chrome OS's less user friendly stack (GUI based apps and whatnot).
This raises some interesting questions about sample selection when statistically or probabilistically analyzing a piece of software.

In statistical analysis you need to have a clear definition for your "unit of observation". Is it individual lines? Is it individual methods? Is there some way to break down code intofunctional units? Is it entire code paths?

Without having a well-defined unit of analaysis and a consistent sampling scheme, extrapolation is difficult or impossible using conventional statistical tools, without making some very big assumptions.
Respectfully, I disagree slight...while yes most users using matrix DO USE the matrix.org instance, if it does go down, there's nothing stopping users from hosting their own ABCXYZ.org home server - in fact the matrix.org team encourage that. So, there isn't the hard dependency on the matrix.org instance that you might believe.
The long user ID is a side effect of how (I assume) the protocol works - essentially the user ID is a public key.

However they can easily fix this by offering an official "directory" which allows you to sign up by email/username and stores the username->user ID mapping. It'll allow people who want UX to use this while leaving the use of raw user IDs if people don't want to depend on a central directory server.

For the other issues it's very surprising that Skype (which used to be a P2P protocol) managed to solve them like 10 years ago and yet the Ring people still can't (or don't want to) solve those issues. But hey, freedom is more important than UX so screw it.
lol want to make a bet on that?
There has yet to be an application which uses the same GUI code across applications that is as good as a native application.

I feel the same way about Jupyter. Sure it's very clever to run it in a browser but it is clunky as hell compared to native RStudio (free) or MathCAD (commercial).
Just for the sake of argument it's feasible a person can be mentally flexible enough to apply different management standards to retail and rocket science.
Hey, thanks for the response. Upnp is no problem, but my router has no settings for nat-pmp. It does not matter, unreliable chat messages are a dealbreaker, and the same goes for not getting messages sent while the client was offline, as described in a comment above.

I also do not run pulseaudio, if that is a requirement (and it looked like it back then when I looked at it) the linux-client is useless to me.
Moving away from Java w/Spring to Golang. Java and especially Spring with it's dependencies just didn't operate fast enough on simple requests as part of a Restful JSON API. Spring was too bloated with dependencies for tech we weren't using and didn't plan on it. As well as setting up VPS servers to run the resulting JAR is kind of a pain as well. So Golang & Rust is going to be the new stack it looks like. Comes with the added benefit of 0 dependency and byte-code compilation so if we decide to sell we aren't packaging _too_ much of the IP with it.
I updated my comment; indeed I was confusing you with another commenter, my apologies.

I'm not sure how you are so confident that the user "allover" is not actually using Elm, though.
That's not a definition for real. Requiring to pay taxes by US dollar makes it more in demand. So it creates some demand for the dollar. It is the same way by which bitcoin or any other asset gain value.
Not only that but even with the dot-com bubble, the internet still exists and tech companies are still booming.

Yes there was short-term fall out from the dot-com craze, but it didn't fundamentally change anything.

Crypto is absolutely in a bubble. It will pop eventually. That doesn't mean it will become obsolete or invaluable. I believe the tech is here to stay. It may not be as lucrative for the get-rich-quick-sheep, but it will get used.
Of course, we need more equality. Equality of outcome. Sounds like communism? It is.
Perhaps no single US made weapon has gained such a reputation because there are so many to choose from?

There's a category for cheap, small-caliber pistols, "Saturday night special".
I believe internationalisation is a big part of version 2 due with iOS 11.
Oh, I assumed the museum would be more about the Khmer Rouge. In fact Wikipedia says

> The landmines in Cambodia were placed by different governments and factions (including the Lon Nol, Khmer Rouge, the Heng Samrin and Hun Sen regimes, as well as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea who, with international support retained the UN seat throughout much of the 1980s) that clashed during the Civil War in Cambodia in the 1970s and 1980s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873083

So it's not clear to me that has anything to do with the US presence in Vietnam.
There is another point about the utility of the currency or token. If some of my customers pay me in Bitcoin and that is more convenient than paying me in USD we have something. This is the case when you have overseas customers and you are not based in US: if the customers do a wire transfer the bank exchanges the USD to my local currency in a less favorably way than if they send the payment in Bitcoin abd I exchange it locally.
J2EE with Struts.
Read that report earlier this week. The one section that stood out to me was the excerpt from the 1997 shareholder letter. The list of technology's elite companies is no-more. Yahoo!, AltaVista, America Online, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, @Home and Prodigy. They're all gone, or have been absorbed into other companies.
> In the US our entire retirement system is based on saving several million dollars and living off unearned returns on that money.

This sounds more like a fantasy for most people - certainly not the basis for the entire retirement system.
Emerson Collective Acquires Majority Stake in The Atlantic
In fact I do! QHD is 1440p (2560x1440)[1] whereas Retina Display on a 13inch MacBook Pro is at 2560×1600, therefore Dell XPS 13 with QHD is still inferior.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution#QH...
If you actually read the latest memo from Howard Marks, he tried to understand Bitcoin but couldn't make sense of it:

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos

Then he makes the perplexing argument, "But they're not real." And he calls it a fad and possibly a pyramid scheme.

But obviously if you don't understand something, you shouldn't invest in it.
I think that the best book ever about JS for everyone, especially for those starting from scratch is https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
you simply don't need anything else
It's one of my favorite stories about SpaceX

Early on in their life as a company, they had 3 back-to-back failures. They were a laughing stock of the industry for the most part. The idea that this little (by comparison to NASA or some of the established private players) company could take on rockets and make them reusable was a joke.

But Elon (and IIRC Peter Thiel) poured more money into it in spite of this, and they were finally able to get moving and are now (at least in my mind) at the forefront of the industry in many areas.
So is Richmond, Virginia
>Urschel’s decision came two days after the release of a study in which all but one of 111 brains of former N.F.L. players showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head. The Baltimore Sun and ESPN, citing anonymous sources with the Ravens, said his retirement was related to the study.

It appears as if NFL Players are listening to the latest study on concussions.
Avoiding the Container Anti-Pattern: Idiomatic Containers
I literally just came back from grabbing a package at an Amazon locker in Italy (this exact concept, except it's been around for a couple of months now). It was convenient and beats the really unreliable parcel services here.
No need. We have first-year privates with USB sticks instead. (And our USB sticks are, of course, plug-in incompatible with Western USB sticks, and weigh at least 15 kilograms, which greatly aids security).
I'm not sure what the last sentence is supposed to mean. Can you link to an example of what you're referring to?
Depends on the cost of failure and the benefits from winning. Fewer bets tends to mean larger bets which can pay off more.
Observation: the length of the censored "XXX hardware bug" text on the slides matches neither Intel, AMD nor Transmeta. Unlikely to be VIA too.

Either it's deception or perhaps some obscure low-end embedded vendor.

edit: for the curious, it's "(redacted) hardware bugs" :)
For me the struggle of figuring it out from the very basics was the best part. It's ok to have 10 or 20 or 50 failed launch attempts in the beginning. You're learning how to go to space!
Matrix is slightly different to XMPP in this respect, as rooms are shared over all participating servers. So if the matrix.org homeserver went down (as it ocassionally does), all the users on other servers continue without impact. As such, it's more like email than XMPP.

Meanwhile we're also working on supporting decentralised accounts in Matrix, so users can pick which set of servers they can use as a homeserver. This then gives the best of both worlds: a simple thinclient protocol that anyone can implement, and knowledge of precisely which servers and devices host your data.

Basically, Ring and Matrix have totally different architectures, and which you use probably depends on what you are optimising for :)
It's because the individual didn't have a network to launder the money through, that's why he started the BTC-e exchange - however I suppose he was sloppy, especially since they were able to connect his real name to an account because he posted about it online, connected to some crypto-asset. It's similar to the mafia, however the mafia evolved to launder money through networks of families and starting 'cash' businesses that they could disguise funds coming in - at least until the businesses became 'legitimate.' This trusted network basically would have started to develop through strong arming.

Late edit: For crypto-assets, the network of 'trusted' people is formed simply by the early adopters - most of which those are people who are purchasing or spending resources mining for speculation purposes. Then you have these people who are all aligned to increase adoption. Strong arming can come later, when people in positions of power (or who have control) are manipulated (whether through bribery/lobbying, etc) or other tactics to have them tie the crypto-assets value into a nation's real currency's value, essentially legitimizing it by force and potentially forcing everyone to buy at the then going rate. Imagine if a company on the stock market told you you're buying their stock for $y price, even though you don't believe or know it doesn't have any value, and they forced everyone to do that; this is war, a battle anyhow, with capitalism and finance involved instead of capitalism and physical military force/mass bloodshed - massively different in their subtleties, and where the first can quickly gain global adoption and tap into global speculative greed and money when tied to a crypto-asset.
I think the best approach is to have a true P2P version for windows and other PC systems and make the mobile client treat your PC as the server, just like WhatsApp web uses your phone to avoid all the syncing.
Well, maybe not "relax" in the sense of sit quietly, but watching a movie or having a conversation aren't strictly relaxing either.

Sorry you don't also enjoy programming after a hard day of (presumably) work.
Ethereum might not have been the best choice, but there are ways they could migrate to another GNU Ring-specific blockchain (therefore a smaller blockchain; there are only so many people who are going to use Ring and they will only want to have so many separate identities) if the Ethereum blockchain really became unmanageably large.
It's fair enough if those are your needs but I think your comment would be better expressed as "For the sorts of programming I do I want to add to a list or change a map's value". Otherwise you give uninformed people the impression that Haskell cannot be used for "real world" programming. It can be and it is.
The solution to all of this is to use React Native, or a technology that is based on its principles to the desktop.
I think they're saying they do .docx better (or at least smaller) than MS Word does .docx
NumberPicture (React + D3): declaratively compose animated SVG visualisations
I'd never heard of Charlie Stross or his Accelerando book. Thanks for mentioning that, it looks right up my hard-sci-fi alley.
Baltimore is on pace for record murders this year. It's a great place for tech startups.
Disney Research's Magic Bench: AR/VR from a 3rd Person POV
> Meanwhile I have a relative that was an underemployed anarchist who now has his own plane purchased w/ Bitcoin proceeds.

That's basically just survivorship bias. I know someone¹ that won the lottery and is now a milionair. That doesn't make lotteries a sound investment.

This is why I also believe Bitcoin is an unintentional pyramid scheme. Its real value is way too low. It's too difficult and dangerous to actually use it for payments. So its only use now is speculation, and that only works as long as other people are willing to buy bitcoin for more money than it was worth in the past. Typical pyramid scheme.

¹) not really, but it illustrates the point.
That... yeah, that seems pretty crazy. Do you even know how to produce food on your land? (it's not easy in most inhabited lattitudes). What about all the other things you'd need - water, medical care, cloth and minerals? What kind of crisis do you even imagine is that likely yet that survivable? It's worth being prepared for a short-term crisis, but that would be over one way or another well before your first harvest. Put some MREs and a 10-gallon water jug in your broom closet and you're not appreciably worse off in an apartment.
OK, that's a reasonable position. It is easy to read your original claim as "All real world programming requires mutable values", and that is certainly not a reasonable position.
That sounds exciting!

I always felt like there wasn't a need to "build" much past the first Mun mission, and grinding for science performing slight variations on the same task to get new parts was really boring.

My first thought was how I wished I had to set up satellites (or some sort of infrastructure like remote fuel depots) to reach farther planets. That would also take time but be much more interesting.
I guess you could read those:

https://tuleap.ring.cx/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/ring/index.php...