skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We enable engineers to focus on what they can to best, letting them work on new products in small, highly interdisciplinary teams. We try to get rid of as much management overhead as possible (no daily standup meetings!).
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Are there any reputable exchanges which you can buy bitcoin cash from yet?
> You can achieve the same thing with two young children that spend a lot of time together e.g. twins.

Sometimes taken to extremes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia
What's the difference between Bitcoin Cash and a Bitcoin clone that anyone can set up?
Hey, we're a little behind on writing up the last few experiments unfortunately. We'll be adding full reports over the next few weeks.
So is it really economically at that point? Is developing, prototyping and building a next gen reactor worth the money? Do we even know how much it would take to account for other 1-in-100 year risks? Is it worth it over better solar/wind? Even this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-31/alphabet-...

I think the answers are clearly, no, no, no, and fuck no. We should be spending money on better solar, wind, having a distributed energy grid, and fusion. Not on a technology that is equivalent to diesel at this point, and something that will kill us.
Thanks.

Re: patterned functions: you can't rely on patterned functions in a full-featured IDE that allows any class method to be an event handler/delegate for another class instance. What you end up may look like what Delphi is doing, but it is just an approximation of the real thing that won't work very well for general-purpose usage. There's going to be all sorts of edge cases that don't work correctly because you can't get a reliable signature for a given method.
The only way we get big dogs to play along to everyone's benefit is by force, sadly. If not then they will always attempt to carve up fiefs.
I find it hard to believe if faced with the choice of letting SoundClound shut down or paying $5 a month, that the SoundCloud community would not be willing to pony up $5 a month. If that is true, that is super pathetic.
Writing a Telegram-bot in Elixir
Does anyone else think that journals, and periodicals misrepresenting something like this is getting to be too much like journalistic terrorism? Or would calling them Luddites be a better characterization?
Disclaimer/FYI/FWIW: Coinbase was YC S12.
How The Atlantic rebuilt the front end of CityLab.com for speed
The answer matching could use some work.

In addition to the order of a list being unnecessarily important as mentioned by other users, in the "Periodic Table" quizzes, any Element codes that form a word are interpreted as a word, so your system thinks that "He" (rhyming with she) is the correct answer for Helium, rather than H.E.

I didn't personally test them out, but I imagine Astatine and Beryllium would exhibit the same behaviour, and there are probably more.
Sure but you also put the code there in the first place. How much of your sketchy behavior is driven by VC demands?
In several interviews I've been questioned about the importance of my contributions throughout my entire career because the apps sizes were so small (typically 8 - 12 mb)

When asked it was clear they'd already made up their mind, and discussions about optimizations, how the app actually did anything, MVC, MVP or SVGs didn't change that.

And thats how you have large apps!
>The common view today is that white light is colourless and arises from the sum of all the hues of the spectrum, whereas black is its absence.

Pet peeve: white is itself a color experience. It's not colorless.

The infinite basis that forms the spectrum is different from the basis of three cones (receptive to bands of long, medium, and short wavelengths respectively), which itself is different from the basis formed by color opponencies (white/black, red/green, blue/yellow). Since the projections that go from one of these spaces to the next are not 1:1, to speak precisely we should not identify a spectrum with a color experience. (And, of course, because of other complications that this skips over like lateral inhibition and habituation.)

Physics talks about spectra and wavelengths. Retinas talk certain bands of wavelengths. Only brains talk color. The spectra that usually make brains experience white can be separated into spectra that make brains experience other color experiences.
We're moving to a webExtensiony future. The idea here is that we'll be a first party consumer of the webExtension APIs so we can help test/drive/expand capabilities.
ICONOMI (Digital Assets Management) platform is now open for registration
Nonzero miner and community support.
There's a strong point to be made that taking the trouble to burn a man alive inside a big jail is only valuable to them because the citizens of their enemy countries are watching.

And there's also the difference between reporting horrible, graphical news, and being the platform for ISIS to tell and show them in their terms.
> You can bet that those companies' infrastructure is optimized to hell and back.

You'd be surprised. (Source: I work at a unicorn.)
It would be cool if users could specify a max size for an app, and then the app tries to meet that size or be deleted.
There are many use cases for this, among them:

* Mobile version of Firefox. It might be easier to talk to fill a form on mobile than type on glass screen.

* Accessibility. There is a huge under served demography of people who will welcome this as typing might be hard for them.

You may not be on any of the groups above but that doesn't invalidate the features.
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don't you have Machine Learning Engineer / Scientist jobs, possibly in near future?

or you're more about data infrastructure?
This 70-Year-Old Programmer Is Preserving an Ancient Coding Language on GitHub
In what way is deciding not to support BCC stealing?

It's more akin to a forex brokerage deciding not to support EUR when it first came out over the lira. You can easily use someone else, Coinbase is hardly the only service around.
Just an upside to doing it at first, was it?

I hate that we're even talking about your company and that we have to because it's a bad actor that's hurting people. Talking about what you're doing, even condemning this ratshit behavior most strongly, kind of empowers your company, and your company doesn't deserve press--even bad press. Kite deserves the equivalent of an unmarked grave.
How are "payment channels" part of Satoshi's plan?

Satoshi's plan is defined by his original whitepaper and his public comments, which are pretty specifci.
There must be someone out there who's got spare time, an old Mac, After Dark - and the willingness to port 'em.
Quick Question:
Sorry, don't know much about Bitcoin, but does this mean Block #478559 is the last block that was forked? Or the first block that was forked?
Correct! This is for children only. My son was 9 when we started the treatment.
I used to work at a shop that ran a 1.5 mbps dsl line, and a ~5 year old, cheap, slow computer. If their code worked on that, it would work on any of our customer's machines.

I wish devs would still test like that. Sure, your app works fine in downtown SF on the newest phone, but try using it in Nowherseville, TN, on a phone that is more than a couple years old. I bet a lot of user frustration comes from dealing with that.
I don't think it's misleading, it's just that there are different preconceptions based on the audience. If there was an article about "How two brothers turned a 3 oz piece of metal into a billion dollar startup" and it was a highly machined part that fit a really useful case in the auto industry, we would rightly assume they were talking about what they sold, and that a lot more work went into actually making and perfecting it. If the same article was read by machinists, they might take issue with it like people are taking issue with this headline, but that's because of the context they are perceiving it in.
Really happy with my move from Ubuntu LTS to CentOS 7.

QA is so much better. I had so many production breaking bugs with Ubuntu, especially on bare-metal.

RPM packaging is more fun than DEB. I'm even using it for application deployment with tito[1].

Even the software deployment story got better thanks to the Software Collections (https://www.softwarecollections.org). Rock solid base OS and an up-to-data application stack.

CentOS on the servers + Fedora desktop is a great combination, since you can re-use your whole build infrastructure and skills for your workstations.

[1]: https://github.com/dgoodwin/tito
Thriva | Full-stack engineer, Lead engineer | London, UK | Full time - ONSITE | thriva.co

At Thriva, we are on a mission to empower people to take control of their health. We think that we will soon look back and think it was crazy how little we tracked and understood our internal health and Thriva is going to be the one to change that. Hopefully with your help! We’ve started by making it simple to track the most valuable internal health data and we’ve built a platform on top of a slick home testing service. That's just the start. We’re a growing team of tech, product, marketing and medical people with fantastic investors.

Technologies we currently use:

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Vue.js, Node
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Interesting to see that the backlog in unprocessed transactions on the original bitcoin chain is exploding at the same time: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h
Where are you guys serving 4m gifs? the API? Doesn't seem like the apps are that popular. Also the name might need work because it doesn't sound very appealing
3. Kaldi
Many of said features are just bundled web extensions, add-ons, so they don't pollute the main code base. Please, don't spread FUD when it is not needed.
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Is it clear which fork was followed by most of the people?
My understanding is that it will take much longer than that for the BCC chain difficulty to significantly adjust.
People may care about (what others may consider) disgusting speech, or they may find it disgusting themselves but they care because of the principle of free speech, but the problem lies in coming out and saying so. Defending drawn porn of minors is harmful to your career at best — for some it can mean the end of relationships, getting ostracised by friends and family, and being persecuted, slandered, and stalked online by people who feel very strongly about such topics.

Even for the most battle-hardened politician near the end of their career, this issue is a minefield.
I'm not familiar enough with Smalltalk to comment, but I'm guessing that it had a formal, discoverable system of hooking events to event handlers. Was that the case ?
Obligatory link to David Foster Wallace's prediction of this http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-on-iphone-4s-fa...
Will It Shuffle?
The shuffle Javascript algorithm may be rewritten with functional programming, minimum overhead just as.

shuffle=
(a)=>{var b=Math.floor,c=Math.random,d=a.length;while(--d>=0)((c)=>{var b=a[d];a[d]=a[c],a[c]=b})(b(c()*(d+1)));return a}
I wouldn't go as far as calling it either terrorism or Luddism. Because, frankly, it doesn't seem like they care.

It's just sensationalism.
It provides and then remembers sane choices pretty well. It's easier if you have enough background to understand 'port', 'dns', and 'application', but once you spend a day or two teaching it your habits, it becomes a fantastic tool that is out of your way until the moment it notices something serious.
> Interesting twist if bitcoin blockchain would be found to distribute illegal porn

I mean... its happened before and you had no idea

Its still in bitcoin's blockchain. There's lots of stuff in there.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494048
The amount of time they've spent discussing and analyzing these things has nothing to do with their contribution to the source code. There are plenty of people who have spent thousands of hours discussing the various trade offs, attacks and sources of attack surface and have not contributed to the Bitcoin Core client github repository.

>The characterization that the core devleopers focus primarily on code and traditional software engineering falls far short of the reality.

That wasn't my characterisation. I disputed your characterization of the Core contributors being the most knowledgeable on these game theory aspects of security based on their contribution to the source code.
This is better than most articles I've seen on this subject, but it still falls victim to AI hype.

> Although some reports insinuate that the bots had at this point invented a new language in order to elude their human masters, a better explanation is that the neural networks had simply modified human language for the purposes of more efficient interaction.

From the Gizmodo article it links to (which is also okay, but not great):

> “Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” FAIR visiting researcher Dhruv Batra said. “Like if I say ‘the’ five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. This isn’t so different from the way communities of humans create shorthands.”

Except... this isn't shorthand. "I want five balls" is shorter than "Give me balls the the the the the," or whatever else it could come up with. It's not more efficient. It's just... dumb. The bots don't actually understand the words the way humans do. Because they don't understand words and language, they're using the words as tokens. It's this primitive level of communication that just happens to have words assigned to it. Even the calmer takes on this are anthromorphizing the machines too much and attributing intelligence to the complete lack thereof.
the whole thing reminds me of religion. "He intended this, he intended that"
Note that this version returns the array it operates on instead of just void
Yes, most of our traffic comes from places like Viber and FB messenger extension, we only started to really focus on our apps recently. Guggy sounds to us like a funny and casual word. It's actually very similar to the word funny.
What precisely is Kite collecting in this case? Ideally backed by a link to a github repo proving that they're collecting whatever people are saying they're collecting.

I've been reading for about 10 minutes and can't find any references. The closest I found was https://twitter.com/gerardroche/status/891802572373319680 which links to https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/blob/master/ext/tel... but that doesn't actually say what they're collecting.

That class seems to be collecting time spent, identified by the variable `name`. But it's not immediately obvious what `name` is being set to. If it's set to a full file system path, then I agree it's a breach of trust. But if it's something generic like 'options screen' then clearly they're just trying to improve their product.

People here seem to be losing their minds over this, so I'm trying to figure out whether it's justified or if it's another game of telephone.

EDIT: Found the code: https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen...

Am I misreading this, or is everyone losing their minds over collecting how much time was spent editing certain file extensions? The only thing that seems to be remotely dubious is "activeNonBundledPackageNames", and that doesn't seem sensitive.
Raster images are still faster and often you can make your png images very small and do stretching.

OTOH, people do vector stuff for many things, it's just they typically don't use SVG but something more efficient. XML parsing is not lightweight compared to a binary format or some sort of vector -> code translator speed wise.
Literally the first sentence:

Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments.
Ask HN: Ignoring morals/ethics but not legality what would you build for profit?
> From what I read, Bitcoin Cash is an alternative cryptocurrency like Ethereum, but based on a change to the original design of Bitcoin algorithms, which increased the basic block size of the transactions. It seems this was done to increase transaction performance.

It is an altcoin, but unlike most altcoins it has a shared history with Bitcoin. Basically, at the moment of it's creation (today, August 1st), everone who owned bitcoins owned an equal number of Bitcoin Cash. So now they are two separate coins and two separate chains, but with a shared history.

> Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

It's hard to give a judgement. When Apple started working on a self-driving car, was that a good thing or a bad thing? Hard to say, it more of just was a thing to know, unless you had a horse in the self-driving car race. Bitcoin Cash will either be successful in some capacity or it will flop altogether, but the original Bitcoin certainly isn't going anywhere.

If you don't have a horse in the race, I wouldn't think of it as a good or bad thing. It's just an event that doesn't mean too much unless you are excited about Bitcoin Cash and the principles it stands for, or if you have Bitcoin and don't realize that you also have an equivalent number of Bitcoin Cash (currently trading at like $200 each - a nontrivial sum!)
Man, playing games in After Dark was so annoying... accidentally move the mouse and lose all your progress. ("Rodger Dodger" was my own favorite.) I guess the thing to do would be to get ahold of the "After Dark Games" CD... I'm sure there's got to be some way to play that still...

Edit: Looking it up, the After Dark Games version of Rodger Dodger apparently has different levels from the screensaver version! (And not just in that it added ones; in fact it has fewer in total.) That's annoying...
Interestingly, it seems the company they lost to is effectively a publicly traded patent troll
Objective-C has had generics for years. Here's mention of how they are imported into Swift: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...
It's more like HP shares splitting into HP and Agilent, and your brokerage deciding that it won't track your ownership stake in Agilent and not giving you any further access to obtain your Agilent stock.

Under these circumstances, you'd have serious reservations about passively parking any assets with that particular broker...
Well, kind of up-to-date application stack. If you worry about security fixes, SL repositories don't usually have the latest versions. E.g. PHP7 repo still has 7.0.10 [0]

Re: stability and QA, couldn't agree more. I only briefly used Ubuntu LTS in production back in '10 and it wasn't a fun experience. I'm sure it has improved but RHEL/CentOS (almost) never lets me down in that regard.

0 - https://www.cisecurity.org/advisory/multiple-vulnerabilities...
I think ISIS is a reasonable start at a definition. The more they want to hurt people the less tolerant they are.
This. Our CentOS 6/7 deployment has been completely uneventful! Ubuntu going back to 10.04 LTS was hell.
Kazakhstan already did it. All they have to do is force browsers to accept a CA that then MITMs everything.
Or for this reason,
because it may be questioned whether the same simple essence can
be expressed by many diverse attributes. There are, indeed, many
definitions of compound things but only a single one of a simple
thing, nor does it seem that its essence can be expressed except in a
single way.
just in time for broke season....
There is still a plan to activate 2MB blocks, at a later date (which is part of the Segwit2x proposal).

I actually don't fully understand the reasons for why the pro-segwit side doesn't want to increase the block size (even beyond 2MB), except that it's a slippery slope: with Bitcoin, every time you change the block size it requires a hard fork.

Increasing the block size isn't a long-term solution, because there's always going to be some new ceiling. Eventually increasing the block size will become impractical.

As an aside, some coins have a variable block size to deal with this. AFAIK Monero is the only "major" coin which features variable blocks. It's also the only coin that's actually private.
AR-15 base weapons (M16, M4) are much more accurate. So there's an advantage at distance. Also it uses smaller, faster rounds that have less stopping power, but are easier to carry. So there's a greater chance of running out of ammo with an AK-47.
And the governments (and voters) subsidizing them.

Whether you want to or not. Even the most vegan of vegans have to pay taxes to subsidize meat and factory farming (including plants). It's the price of all this Freedom™.
IIRC Windows has pretty involved infrastructure for deduplicating same executable images both in memory and on disk.
I addressed this in another reply, but I'll repeat: it's a temporary solution. You're merely delaying the inevitable, since the block size limit can't be changed without a hard fork.
Actually, people who are very deep into the "get off my lawn" phase of their life, that is old people, are generally not the greatest typists. For them, the ability to talk instead of type, everywhere and not just in google search (which already has this) seems like a huge help.

I'll never use it. It's completely useless to me. But if my grandma actually did anything else than Facebook on her computer I'd show this to her.
The real effects of leaving ISIS recruiting videos on youtube is people dying. They actually do succeed in recruiting people and those people do bad things. Shouldn't this be stopped?