skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hopefully that would be the case...or perhaps my world view is a bit too pessimistic, but I feel that these days there are just too many different goals -- and many of them are mutually exclusive -- are amalgamated in academia...

I have seen quite a few cases where people with PhD degree in physics or mathematics went to Wall Street and became traders there and totally gave up their original pursuit of physics or mathematics...

also it is not a small number of people who would choose to pursue an academic career not because their research interests them but because it brings them fame and admiration, as well as stability in life -- as once they obtain their tenure, they would go start companies and pursue profits, instead of discovery...

I am not saying that there are not many people still hold their academic ideals pure and high...It is just that in this era when academic positions are highly respected, admired and well-paid, it might give people the incentive to pursue such a career not for its original purpose but for something else....And one of the very reasons why these days academic positions are highly respected, admired and well-paid was because those scientific and engineering giants in those old days had made really prominent and conspicuous contributions that made this world a significantly better place than it was a century ago -- and if we trace further to the reason why they chose science and engineering as their career in the first place and then made great contributions afterwards, it seems that in many cases it was not because science and engineering could bring them material profits, but rather they were genuinely interested and intrigued; and it was extremely fun to them...

But of course, it is a very difficult to say whether there is such a general decline in our pursuit for knowledge in general (such measurement is hard!)...not to mention the complexity in the essence behind some of the declining factors and drives...

Nevertheless, I wish that at the time when I am old and feeble, as I look back at those days in our time, I could say to myself, just as Odysseus might have said to himself, that I have lived in an age of many great ideals and many great heroes...Yet still, I feel that we should be warned that after the heroic Mycenaean period[1] ended, what immediately followed was several hundreds of years of darkness in the ancient Greek civilization[2]...

Note:

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Dark_Ages
This really is the other side of the automated trucking coin. This way they can build enough of a network to start brokering freight for autonomous trucking companies and hiring short distance truck drivers, much like pilot/captains in shippng.
Entirely different organizations with different purposes and goals.
https://glot.io/snippets/ee0wub5ywy
> SEC rulings only apply to American entities/business

This is wrong. SEC rulings apply as soon as your investors are US residents. [1] I know neither of us are lawyers, but at least back up what you claim if it might put people's money at risk.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/foreign-priv...
Unfortunate naming - I used this other graphical MS Windows music player back in high school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusikCube

EDIT: oh, same developer, so all links are "legitimately" taken over for the new version, and the old version homepage is https://musikcube.com/old/
That's great. How did you go about promoting the site ?
That's a really good point. Have any of the branches tried to address this? There's nothing stopping anybody from making a branch that does sane versioning & maintenance.
Since when is video game development considered a science topic?
I don't know, in the 4.x days I worked for a company that built and deployed very stable commercial grade products on the 4.x release.

And having used FreeBSD for nearly 18 years now, there have certainly been hiccups, but for the uses I have had 9 and 10 were perfectly usable.
I tried TypeScript yesterday and while I really love the language, the tooling was wayyyy too complicated and confusing. All I wanted was to make a dead simple hello-world node app that let me write it in VS Code, and recompile the TS to JS every time I saved. Suddenly I had to learn about tsconfig.json, had to install nodemon and have a process running in the background that I'm sure to forget to kill later, and I have no idea how either tsc or ts-node plays into any of this... in the end I just decided to go with ES2016 and be done with it. Too bad, because I really like having type information available, especially for catching bugs. I enabled VS's "pretend JS is TS" setting so it catches some errors, but it's pretty hacky and not thorough, and I don't get to specify types in my program. Really wish I could get a dead simple TS app figured out.
Yes I'll be at the DeepRL Bootcamp, looking forward to it. Big fan of the work coming out of Abbeel's lab and Berkeley.

I'm on the ML team at Dropbox; recently finished working through David Silver's Deep RL course on my side time. Tell me more about yourself and your interest in Deep RL!
I have no TV. When I see an advert if I'm round someone's house or something like this, when you have not seen adverts for a while, they just look ridiculous. Some person telling you with utmost urgency about something so trivial.

I don't know why this is, but when you step back and are not used to adverts, when you do see them they just seem so transparently pathetic.
Both of those cause truckers to be unreliable. You can also include accidents, and delays at other facilities.
Asciicasts
The Upside of Rotting Carcasses
Agreed. A friend mocked British service standards the other day and I said that this showed people hadn't completely given up. It's a form of resistance.
> and unless you want to go back to only seeing new releases every 4+ years

I was fine with that, I like my desktop to just be there and get out of the way, not something that has to impress me with shiny new features constantly. Even the ported apps aren't consistent though, look at the mail app and the hideous background image they put in it.

> I've never had windows "Freeze the desktop for 5 minutes at a time".

I certainly have on an intermittent internet connection, the start menu can freeze for several minutes. That isn't good enough for a basic OS feature that shouldn't even have an internet connection. On the same connection it can also take several minutes to login to login to the machine because it's tied to the MS account.
The PS2 is, by far, done the worst disservice in this repo.
I tried to be clear, but I can see where there is possible ambiguity. I said business, not businesses.

The impact would be on their existence within the US, but not internationally. Not with regard to the SEC alone.

edit: Okay, you started as snark, then tightened it up a bit after an edit, but my point still stands.
Things I Don’t Like About ICOs
Not even remotely. Political thinkers have been making that distinction since the 19th century. Go back to the 18th century and people generally wouldn't even have used the term "property" to refer to things other than land.
"I don't know, in the 4.x days I worked for a company that built and deployed very stable commercial grade products on the 4.x release."

It is very appropriate that you remember the 4.x days like that since that is the last time there was a long term, stable target for FreeBSD development (and investment). Remember, the 4 branch went to 4.11.

It is 4.x that I identified in my original mailing list post (2012) as the time, after which, I thought FreeBSD began having problems with focus and longevity.
I've been using FreeBSD as a NAS with ZFS since ZFS was first added. I love it! The man pages are fantastic, the FreeBSD handbook is amazing, and the whole system feels really cohesive and well-designed.

I use Arch Linux on my desktop but I would switch to FreeBSD in a heartbeat if it addressed the desktop-related issues I had last time I tried it. It would be especially amazing if they fixed all the sleep and power management stuff so it could be used on a laptop with good battery life.
There are two failure modes of "smart guns":

1) fails to unlock: "wild animal or another human killed me first"

2) too easy to unlock: "a child undid the lock and shot another child"

Just like self-driving cars, even if you get a 10x or 100x net reduction in deaths, the first time someone dies because your "smart gun" failed, there will be a huge press cycle and mass hysteria. And probably lawsuits.
Depends what you consider for "opportunity", would you do it for free and just have a cut at the end of a month based on the profit?
It says Science and Technology.
RIP – Really Insightful Postmortem
Video game development actually involves a lot of science and engineering and can require advanced 3D math, logic, psychology, etc.
Has there been a security audit yet?
The Remote Work Survival Guide
Rounded corners as in on the fly rounded corners, as in vector rounded corners. Flash was first on the web for rounded corners that weren't pre-created bitmaps.

It's not a big deal, but it's a fact.
I don't get how inflation does these things. I've never heard of it robbing the poor or doing anything specific to millennials
When I was in school, I had an assignment to make the same super simple scene in OpenGL and DirectX.

That was when I learned I didn't want to be in a career field that would have me using DirectX.
Is the license MIT?

It looked like but I was not sure (it might also just be that I read it too early in the morning.)
> only seem to focus on "community' building, as if that was anything to do with code

We got a live one boys! It takes a special kind of self-denial to adamantly say that community has nothing to do with code on a hosting site for open source projects. (in fact, it's in the first sentence of the article...)
I would give another example: the US government subsidizes trucking (especially long distance trucking) to a much greater degree than freight railroads through building and maintaining highways. All things being equal the marginal cost of shipping via freight rail should be lower given its higher fuel efficiency.
Yep...it's been like that for a while. Undergrad in computer hardware engineering, masters in EE. Done plenty of embedded work in school and internships and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Web dev/backend dev for the last 10 years.

I often wonder who, in the long run, would be the ones to push the boundaries when you can get a very good pay doing some generic software engineering job (similarly I have friends go several years into a STEM phd to drop and go into CS masters program)
Ugh. Why is everyone excited about yet another online directory? Is it because it is tech conferences and people here are just jazzed by lists of dorky things they can do besides mow their lawns (sorry, for folks outside SF who actually have lawns), or do their regular maintenance on their car?

This is not a problem that needs a solution. It's yet another developer (or wanna-be 'need a job in development' person) who needs a puff portfolio piece that shows he knows how to connect a few database fields with a front-end display - and mixed with search! Wow! (Well, it mostly works anyway).

I have yet to see one of these ShowHN pieces be anything but the latter. They should split ShowHN into ShowHNFluffYouBuiltToGetAJob and ShowHNStuffThatSavesLives, because I'd only be interested in the second one.

And of course, you have to have your submissions vetted by the guy who not only "promises" to always maintain this (I call), but who obnoxiously floats his Twit handle over the footer as you scroll... he either doesn't believe in crowd-sourcing genuinely or doesn't want to deal with a user-end database. Likely, he'll turn that "I don't charge to be listed" into "listings are only $99/year" pretty quickly.

Whoever said this guy was solving a "simple and actual problem" is sadly misleading this poor fellow. It was not a problem. Conferences are not concerned that there are not enough listing sites out there. Conference attendees are aware of, in their respective circles, where to go and what to attend. It's not a simple problem. It's not a problem at all.

What is a problem is the proliferation (i.e. clutter) of the internet of everyone and their sister building fluffy stuff with .co and .io domains. Can I just block all such domains from my browser? My internet would actually be better if I could.

Sigh... the death of the Yahoo Directory was heading toward this all along, wasn't it?
I see what you're saying: people not in the US should not be concerned. But that's not what the post is about and that's not what my question is about.

The question is whether or not what the Ethereum Foundation sold to US residents are securities in the SEC's eyes?
Sometimes people get sick of being addicted too - people getting sick of facebook delete or deactivate their accounts altogether.
Yep, we arrived at my larger point: if you care about interpretability, NNs are horrible and Bayesian techniques are pretty damn great.
I'm pretty good at not falling victim to this. I don't check facebook. I don't watch TV or the news. I don't listen to the radio. I have a suite of ad-blocking technology. My attention is entirely mine to direct.

Instead I read, listen to podcasts (which are sponsored oftentimes, but it's more relevant and less intrusive), watch recordings of episodes/streams without commercials.

I believe I feel better because of this, and have more knowledge and skills. But I also sometimes feel like I live under a rock when I miss facebook reminders of birthdays, and "haven't heard" about current events that are blaring across all channels.
> That's factually incorrect. OSX, Windows, Linux, it makes no difference. You cannot hide the 8ms of response time that comes with a crappy laptop spinning drive.

Sure you can, you can load stuff in memory so you don't have to hit the hard drive every time you do something like open the start menu. Once in a while the taskbar likes to "refresh" itself and the icons disappear while the drive spins up. It's not a problem I ever had on windows 7 or any linux machine.
“Flexport is a licensed freight forwarder that uses people and software to manage the complexity of international trade.”

Do these companies really compete? It doesn’t seem like Convoy is focused on international trade. It also doesn’t seem reasonable that if YC funds one company in transportation (or healthcare or some other big sector), they can never fund another one in that sector.
I agree... as long as radios aren't involved. Getting parts with the necessary tolerances in low quantities and dealing with the board layout is kind of expensive. The analyzer you need to use to figure out why the radio is acting funny is pretty expensive too. I don't know how I could have done my senior radio project without access to my uni's pimped out RF lab.

But yeah, I've made MCU boards in my toaster oven, it's fun times for little non-RF projects.

The several gigabytes of stuff TI makes you install just to do hello world on their simple link products is kind of nuts though. There's nothing simple about it tbh.
China seems to be ahead here, for example see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/china-s-u...
Only if it's federal single-payer, rather than state-by-state (the latter is quite possible - it's how Canada does it). And assuming the existing law wrt taxes and abortions stays in place, of course, which I doubt if we ever get close to the numbers necessary to pass federal single-payer.
Fair enough, but it does appear Apple is committed to HomeKit; this marks the third year in a row they've made major strides and improvements, with this year being the biggest in terms of licensing and implementation.
Does anyone have any links to benchmarks?
They agree on the bird analogy, except Numenta (IMHO rightfully) thinks you can't come up with airplane designs without having understood how birds actually fly.
If I had to work a shit job like grocery store clerk, I'd much prefer an ineffectual dolt of a boss telling me to smile than I would a German realist boss telling me a smile isn't a requirement of my employment.
Here is a really old blog about using NRF24 with 18 months on coin cell.

https://maniacbug.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/sensor-node/

I had a idea that i didnt follow through, but worked well (the code sucks, i know).

https://github.com/birkir/sensornodes
PCI-Express Riser/Extender Test
The Rock teams up with Siri and other Apple endorsements
Nice! Any chance this supports gapless playback for those of us who listen to classical once in a while?
I dunno what y'all's problem is, the last ruling like this (from the IRS) meant I got to write $200 in Bitcoin losses off on my taxes.
Programming flaws kill people. WannaCry shut 20% of britian's hospitals. ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/nhs-cyber-attack-... )

Seems like programming DOES involve the health and safety of others.
Anyone else unable to actually get it to do anything?
Running it from their URL: https://coisas.alhur.es/
US will provide emergency care (although someone will still get billed for it - if not the patient, then their parents). But that literally means emergency, like life support. If what you require in order to not let the illness progress to the point where you need life support is some expensive surgery, and you don't have insurance that covers that, you're not getting it.

Similarly, for non-life-threatening health issues, you'll get emergency care that treats the immediate symptoms of whatever your problem is (and you'll get billed for them, and be expected to pay), but you get no treatment for the problem itself.

Needless to say, this is a very wasteful system.
Cool! Maybe I'll see you at the next convention we end up at.
You're forgetting that Flash had a lot more than animation at heart. What about the components? They were very useful for both animators and casual developers to easily create interactive animation - which was the whole point. Static animation was only the beginning. The best Flash was interactive.

A huge variety of components from the Flash community. You were presented with an interface within Flash where you could configure the component's options, and very little code was needed to get professional results quickly.

Adobe Animate has nothing like that, and besides Adobe only makes their CC stuff available by subscription which is unappealing to a lot of people.
Which of Shannon, Godel, Turing, von Neumann, Noether, Hilbert, Einstein, Dirac, or de Broglie are you implying were not regarded as giants in their own times?
Yet try to find Unity games on the web to play right now, and you won't find many, and oh look you need to download a plugin to play them.
_One_ value of a second language is the pool of people it lets you communicate with. Another value is whether you can actually learn it well enough to use it.
I think the idea is cool, but I have a feeling there would be quite a legal battle that ensues when someone is injured or dies in the hostel after they couldn't connect to 911.
Replying here because we reached max comment count.

I can see how our wires got crossed.

I interpreted your original comment as questioning whether or not this was a threat to the specific tech or foundation at large, and not just isolated to the US region.

So, I guess the argument is moot -- seems like my mistake. It's certainly up in the air in the US at this point. I do find the progression of events interesting, regardless. In spite of what I said, the US does have a social impact with decisions like this -- just maybe not so much right now as in recent years[0].

I get argumentative because I see a lot of promise. I like technical discussion about it vs. regular degradation, so I usually have something to say.

[0] http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/imf-predicts-...
From the Camden bench I found http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-host...
I totally get the always on thing; especially for baseball. My point was more that ads are the driving force for me, and i am sure others, to abandon the platform; it feels a little like someone invading your home to yell at you if you're not used to it.

But this applies to YouTube too; cable cutting is hardly a panacea to avoid intrusive ads.
Something that hasn't been done much yet, but probably will as the space matures, is for a blockchain to reuse another blockchain as its "timestamp" generator.

eg. A 'MyCoin' miner grabs the latest 10 blocks off the main, say, Ethereum blockchain, and includes those hashes as proof they began their block mining _after_ those main blocks were mined, then adds their own proof-of-work on top, winning the block-solve lottery to add the next block to the blockchain.

This could potentially reduce the amount of relative advantage a dominant miner has ( others can provide a math analysis )

This approach can also save electricity, as it puts the miners on a mutual 'duty-cycle' where MyCoin miners are only busy running cryptohashes for a fraction of the time between blocks.

Another nice side-effect of this 2-tier mining is that the block generation times are spaced more evenly over time. [ They move towards a normal distribution around the average time, rather than uniformly - a result of the 'law of large number's, which states roughly that the average of uniform 'flat' distributions approaches a normal bell curve around the mean ].

Currently Bitcoin blocks sometimes arrive after 1 minute, other times only after 19 minutes, with mean 10mins maintained by adjusting difficulty. So the bitcoin time between blocks variance is high ( Litecoin adds blocks 4x as often @ 2.5mins, Ethereum ~10secs on average, but all with quite high variance ) which can surprise users.
I tried PulseAudio some years ago and could not get everything to work. I'm sure if I really tinkered with settings/config files, I could - but everything was working with ALSA out of the box, so I didn't bother.

Pulseaudio is sold as easier to manage, but for me it simply wasn't.

The assumption is that people are running systemd, and Pulseaudio presumably works well with that. But I'm not on systemd. If my distribution had a simple way of running pulseaudio and have it work more or less right out of the box, I'd go for it. But it doesn't.

They stopped supporting it because no developer stepped up to support it - that's all. Apparently the Pulseaudio API is straightforward for developers, whereas dealing with ALSA directly is not.
ClojureScript itself fits wonderfully in Elixir/Phoenix land. :)
That's an outdated statistic. There's way too much javascript and unwanted video and other effects on the web today that your battery is still getting hammered. Turn off javascript today and you'll probably get huge battery savings.
Faster reference-count overflow protection
Would you mind explaining in more detail why you didn't like using DirectX? When I was reading up for some games if they would get an OpenGL version, I was reading more than once that OpenGL were a mess.
For anyone else stuck in a captcha redirect loop:

https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2015.7118968
I am not sure AI is a new thing..
U.S. math team finishes 4th behind Korea, China, Vietnam
Will this be fixed when a "canonical" docker container comes out for it? Or perhaps two containers - 1 for dev & dev dependencies and 1 for "prod"?
I too like building things that I have a use for. And I do think sometimes maybe I'm not the only one who could make use out of it, which is why I believe so much in open source, whether the tool is menial or not.
Looking at the video, I want to immediately (i.e., without switching to a mode) type "can" and have "Cannonball Adderley" highlighted at the bottom of the focused "artists" tab.

Does it work that way?
Gapless playback should more or less work out of the box for most file formats (flac, ogg, etc). For MP3 files it's still a bit hit-or-miss, and depends on what settings were used when encoding the files. This should improve over time.