skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck claiming SLA refunds from them. Their "support" will stall for months and in the end forget/expire your requests.
> in 2008/09...most people in the world lost confidence in banking systems

You mean when everyone sold securities, moved to cash, and bought Treasuries, CDs and bank deposits?
Wikipedia claims that Feynman's first job after Los Alamos was at Cornell for $4,000 per year (~$54k/year inflation-adjusted). This claim is repeated in many sources, including the book "Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman".

That book also makes the claim that in the 1960s (perhaps as early as 1960 itself), Feynman's salary crossed $20,000/year and that he was the highest-paid member of the faculty. Inflation-adjusted, that is at most $165k/year.
> I would like to see more emphasis on other things like bicycle maintenance, equipment like lights and a mirror and education on how one should ride their bike on MUPs and in traffic, but it seems that the debate on helmets has overshadowed the other things that can have a greater impact on the safety of the rider.

Don't know how well its enforced in the rest of the UK, but when I lived in Cambridge wearing a helmet was your own choice. Riding with insufficient lights can and will get you pulled over and fined.
> He shouldn't blame a community of volunteers for not fixing his personal problems for free.

It seems to me that you're just repeating the author's point, but with a different tone. Issues of "blame" aside (what does that even mean?), his point is that open source software tends not to meet the needs of the accessibility community. One possible cause of this is that the devs who support open source software tend not to be disabled and tend not to have experience or even access to things like screen readers.

I honestly don't know enough about the issue to know how true this might be, but just dismissing it as a rant, even if the word "rant" is correct in this case, doesn't address the underlying issues.

BTW, a quick google search suggests that JAWS is far and away the most popular screen reader for windows. If it's not a priority, then accessibility for windows isn't a priority either, which is exactly the author's point.
A crash is simply the result of it becoming obvious that the market is overvalued, is it not? Everyone heads for the exit at the same time.
The 10-page diversity manifesto and need to look deeper
I can't speak for what most think, but I've chatted with a number who view that any money being used to purchase sex is inherently coercing someone to have sex, even if we assume that everyone involved in the transaction is fully consenting. Another view I've commonly heard is that possibly engaging in sex trafficking is wrong (so that all paying of prostitutes is wrong because you can't be sure if they really want to or if they are forced), but that possibly engaging in other forms of human trafficking aren't wrong (basically think of anything you buy at the store which may have been produced by slaves, for a concrete example look at shrimp and the slavery involved with it).

I'm not saying most hold this true, but a sufficient number of my anecdotal experiences lead me to estimate this is a popular view.
Blockchains for a Better World
It depends on your area. I am a software engineer and write software for biomedical signal analysis and finance/trading, and I promise you it is very math intensive. There is a pretty wide gap between a SE creating websites and a SE designing trading systems or medical devices.
JavaScript spring based on the equations governing CASpringAnimation
As others have pointed out, bitcoin mining doesn't tend to happen in places where fossil fuels are used for electricity generation, simply because it isn't profitable to do so.

Instead it tends to gravitate fairly quickly to places that currently have an surplus of energy and therefore extremely cheap power generation.

In the US that is Washington state, near Wenatchee, where the power is the cheapest in the nation:
http://www.electricitylocal.com/states/washington/wenatchee/

The reason for that price is that it is all hydro, so no co2 produced. (though depending on how fungible you view power it could be argued otherwise)
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/jun/01/cheapest-elec...

But ya, though I agree the amount of power that goes into mining and keeping the blockchain safe is absurd, the crazy competition and economies there have driven most of that to green sources. So yay I guess?
Apple used to stick 99 Wh batteries in the 15" Pros, but with the last 2 generations they downgraded that to 76Wh batteries (presumably since their battery life targets are based on Safari browsing and QuickTime playback - or at least that's all they advertise)
I only know of the case of a Matt Taylor, who was part of the Rosetta project (land a probe on a comet) that was branded a sexist for wearing a shirt given to him by a woman.
Prosecutors seek 12-year sentence for Samsung chief
> about 250 people would buy it. Maybe 1000

Lolwut, companies would INSTANTLY go back to the older MBPs if they could. Do you know how much replacing lost/misplaced/stolen/broken adapters cost?!

The only thing where companies can save with the new USB-C MBP is on power bricks because once the cable inevitably fails you only have to get a new cable instead of a whole new brick.
Not fully capable, I believe it lacks some buttons ? Like the second joystick. But, if the game is designed with this in mind, then the joycons are more than functional!
Are you familiar with MMT?
I wonder if turning off the blur/transparency effects in iOS results in any substantial battery difference...
I would not consider it a red herring. There are very few places in the world that can sustain large scale agricultural out put. For clarification I speak of the Nile Delta, Ukraine, Mekong Delta, and the Midwest of the United States. This is nothing new, this has been true since the dawn of human history. With the exception of the Midwest of the Unite States those areas have also been fought over continuously since the dawn of human history.

Your comment seems to indicated that it is less develop countries that are to be feared in times of conflict. This is not the case, with very few exceptions it has been the more developed countries that seek to exploit those regions. As a policy I am for the United States keeping it agricultural engine online and working as I don't wish my countries food supply to be dependent on, nor easily manipulated or controlled, by others.
> Another argument for basic income?

Another argument why some sections of the population should not have kids.
In fact unless I'm missing something the units don't match up:

Total stock market value has units $
GDP has units $/year

So expressing their ratio as a % is misleading.
Not only that, but one that can handle HiDPI scaling in a way that doesn't make you want to rip your hair out.
Felt instantly reminded of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14486482
Well done! These are the two topic areas that are really interesting for the practically minded as well. It does help to like math rather than hate it for a software engineer but refined math is mostly out of scope for most programmers.
Do people care about that if he does freelance work? Or has he mostly looked for employment? And if so, why not freelance?

At least in my neck of the woods (Western Europe) it's (relatively) easy to find programming work as a contractor/freelancer, and as far as I can tell employment history doesn't matter, at least not in the 'web' space of programming.
> walled garden

You say this like it's a bad thing? I love the walled gardens that commenters here seem to hate: iOS, iTunes, Kindle, etc.

I know what's going to work, where to buy what I want, don't have to worry about incompatibilities, and know who to go to if I need support. And the prices are reasonable!
I know I'm more productive working at home, most days.

The downside of working at home is that family and friends think I don't actually work. They like to call in the middle of the day and shoot the breeze, or stop over for an unannounced visit. That can be nice, but it can also be a huge PITA.

The upside is there are days when I feel dumb as a box of rocks and can't write a single line of code without struggling or mucking something up and on those days I can clean the house or mow the lawn or some other chore that I don't really need to think much about.

And on those days with I'm feeling bright I can code until the wee hours and get a ton of work done and afterwards sleep in until I'm truly rested.

But the best part is not having to drive to work. Back in the late 1980s I was spending at least 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, sitting in traffic sucking exhaust fumes on the way to and from work in Los Angeles. After about 10 years of that I finally did some math while stuck in traffic on the Ventura Fwy one hot and smoggy day.

I didn't live far from where I worked but it was as least an hour drive each way in rush hour traffic. I was honestly shocked when I realized I would be spending at least a 10,000 hours of my life sitting in traffic over the next 20 years.

As soon as I got home I started planning my escape from that misery.
No, the 2008 crash wasn't a black swan. It just came from the debt side, rather than the equity side. It was clear this was coming. In 2004, I wrote this, on my "downside.com": [1]

The next crash looks to be housing-related. Fannie Mae is in trouble. But not because of their accounting irregularities. The problem is more fundamental. They borrow short, lend long, and paper over the resulting interest rate risk with derivatives. In a credit crunch, the counterparties will be squeezed hard. The numbers are huge. And there's no public record of who those counterparties are.

Derivatives allow the creation of securities with a low probability of loss coupled with a very high but unlikely loss. When unlikely events are uncorrected (I meant uncorrelated), as with domestic fire insurance, this is a viable model. When unlikely events are correlated, as with interest rate risk, everything breaks at once. Remember "portfolio insurance"? Same problem.

Mortgage financing is so tied to public policy that predictions based on fundamentals are not possible. All we can do is to point out that huge stresses are accumulating in that sector. At some point, as interest rates increase, something will break in a big way. The result may look like the 1980s S&L debacle.

It took longer than I expected for that to kick in, but it happened.

[1] http://downside.com/news.html#comingmortgagecrunch
Whether you think Bitcoin mining has real-world utility or not depends entirely on whether you think Bitcoin has real-world utility or not.

Without Bitcoin mining, there is no Bitcoin.
I think that there has to be some responsibility pushed back onto the universities and banks that are selling these loans for defaults. I think it's obscene that colleges are selling near-useless degrees to 18 year olds for $50k+. There has to be some incentive for either colleges to charge less for certain degrees or push people into degrees that will lead to higher paying jobs, or simply get pickier about who they admit.
free means tuition-free. so yes, students have to pay for living expenses, books, etc.
> I love that the Switch has brought back local multiplayer

Sort of. I was really disappointed to find that Splatoon 2, one of the biggest games for the Switch, does not feature splitscreen multiplayer. The original Splatoon, on the Wii U, had awesome local multiplayer: one player used the TV, the other used the screen on the Wii U GamePad. Each user got a full screen. How splitscreen wasn't possible with better hardware is a little confusing, to be honest.
Who says that it isn't?

US defense spending built most of the technology industry. That activity didn't stop.
How to use Sourcery to speed up your Swift development
Vector successfully launches prototype rocket for small satellites
But it's not the first to do that. There's a cable that allows you to connect your PSP to your TV.
I know what I'm writing is kind of superfluous, but not all vegans are like that. There are vegans who try not to disclose the fact of them living vegan.
Diagram doesn't work on safari with Adblock
You understand that subsidies create a price floor.

Your produce would be cheaper in their absence.
Mine took a while to load all the data. (I have a very fast internet connection). The site loaded, but the inside data took a while, like the graph, and the "Current Risk" numbers at the bottom.
The original TRON movie came out in 1982
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/

In 2010 there was a sequel movie Tron: Legacy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/
You're correct - it doesn't get into the deep learning aspect yet.

This article is in fact the second part of a larger planned series. The idea is to present more depth than a "quick refresher" that seems to be common to a lot of blog posts, but far less material than would be found in a 10-week (or single semester) undergraduate course.

Thanks for the Stanford link. I'll check it out.
First, please show that cryptocurrency is an ecological "disaster" is the first place.

Next, please explain how crypto is more of a disaster than the existing monetary system. Does the cryptocurrency mining economy pose more of an ecological threat than the system put in place to secure government fiat money: buildings, employees, vaults, mints, printing presses, armored vehicles, police, (some part of) the military, etc?
> I'm kind of tired of this tech culture meme, that something should be allowed because it is easy.

It's not just that it's easy; it's that it can be done merely by thinking in a particular way about information that's public or that was freely given to the person doing it. I'm not sure the fact that the thinking is done mainly with the aid of an algorithm changes the fundamental concept.

It probably shouldn't be illegal to think about things or to process data you've obtained legitimately whether it's easy or hard.
And Bitcoin

Ref: http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/eurozone-turning-to-bitc...
Thanks for the kind offer, I was just curious if you knew. You don't need to go to such lengths.
AFAIK it's currently being blamed on a bug in the PHP testsuite that segfsults in Intel too.
See also, Geohashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohashing

"Geohashing is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online."
40% of the earth's land area is currently used for agriculture. This is the kind of scale required to feed the population the world has now. Comparatively "small urban farmers" ability to produce foodstuffs is, and always will be, a rounding error when compared to the scale of industrial farming.
Thanks for your answer. Do you mean most downmarket in the IT sector, or the market in general?

Good idea about the coding boot camp, I have to check whether there exists such a camp in the region.
But that's a file, it accepts a file path. I already looked into this
Yeah, I had the same thought. However, the Switch actually makes that convenient, by design. I would play my PSP on TV all the time. It sucked. Getting the screen full size required your TV to have that option (and crappy cheap TVs didn't). Fumbling with the wires was annoying. It didnt have a stand.

The Switch has the same feature, you're right. But its designed (and marketed) around it. That's the difference.
Did they also work well when plugged into a TV?

Yes, this is typical over-the-top Wired writing, but it's still a clever design that's likely to influence other hardware design.
There is something thoroughly logical about this approach to the unfortunate waste implicit in Proof of Work (PoW) schemes.

In summary of the motivations of the paper: PoW is currently limited to cryptocurrencies as a security system because of the implicit financial incentive in mining coins. This approach could allow PoW schemes to be widely adopted to secure systems as the overhead is lowered dramatically. Additionally, battery powered devices (ie phones) could make use of PoW without incurring large battery drains. This last bit is particularly interesting and could allow some interesting, distributed P2P systems on cellphones to arise.

The general principle of the paper revolves around asking network members to prove computational power only as much as necessary as the network scales. Because an attacker could easily spoof their MAC / IP address when joining the network, computational tests are periodically distributed to network members. If the test is unsolved in an allotted time period, their network membership is revoked (and the node is blacklisted). The attack referred to in the paper is an attacker adding bad (fake or otherwise) nodes to a system rapidly.
I'm really puzzled by your statement. Honestly.

All major consoles are walled gardens.
I know this counts as an accessory that bridges two devices rather than a complete device in its own right but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy. The Switch, as neat as it is, isn't without precedent.
I read this book the other day, and for the life of me I can't remember the name, and I wish I could. It's a fairly nasty but accurate book.

It's the difference between how the nouveaux rich and the bluebloods signal wealth.

For instance, if you're newly lower upper class, you like splurging on nice kitchens and laundry facilities - stainless steel/granite countertops and new appliances with all the bells and whistles. If you are truly wealthy and have been for generations, you tend to not give a shit about your kitchen or your laundry facilities - that sort of thing is just for menials, as you're not spending any time in the kitchen, and you wouldn't be entertaining your guests there - that's what the dining room and parlour are for.

One consequence of the Cultural Revolution in China is that none of the newly minted rich are truly bluebloods - wealth is only a few generations old. Hence the splurging on nice purses and nice cars. A truly wealthy person wouldn't be caught dead in the front seat of a Lamborghini - he owns the Bentley and pays for a driver to live with him so he doesn't have to bother with driving.

Like I said, it's a truly insightful and as a consequence a nasty book. If I can find the title I'll update this post.
Lol it was a joke. Thanks for the support man!
Keep in mind the source:

"Jenny Beth Martin (@JennyBethM) is president and co-founder of Tea Party Patriots."

The Co-founder of the tea party patriots thinks any and all financial government support is bad? I'm shocked I tell you.
The decision to attend a private 4-year university has got to count as one of the biggest mistakes I've made in my young life. The 19 weeks I spent in coding bootcamp have been orders-of-magnitude more useful to my career than the 4 years I spent in college. Most people will never know less about life and what they want out of it than they do when they're in high-school. So in my mind it makes no sense to give someone like that the responsibility of a choice that will cost them and their families between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars (depending on whether they choose public vs. private, in-state vs. out-of-state, etc.).

Knowing what I know now, I would have jumped at the chance to study for free in a place like Germany (as per danjoc's comment). That sounds like the perfect way to minimize the costs of what college purports to offer- a chance to broaden one's horizons and investigate possible directions one wants to take with their life.
There's a small handful. Here's one: http://nearix.com/

How can I get in touch with you? Maybe we can connect next time I'm down that way.
Why the downvote? Am I wrong?
How the Women in Tech Discussion actually promotes Corporatism
For a layman like myself, downloading and skimming the reference papers at the bottom of the page, starting with Craig Gentry 2013's paper[1], really helped.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/340
If I assumed their genders, I would have said so few female contributors, but I don't know their genders, so I didn't say that.
> and said the creatures were sea fleas, not sea lice as first thought.

Not sure what authority suggested sea lice first. Growing up in South Florida, I can say sea lice are much more annoying than these blood sucking fleas he ran into. The former are basically mosquitos of the ocean. Hours after swimming, you're itching for days from tiny bug bites. At any rate, sounds like the kid has some sort of hemophilia that made matters worse and created a viral scare. He got off easy.
Where did this phrase originate?
The comment you replied to does feel somewhat disingenuous and perhaps unproductive, but it's possible they're merely lamenting the state of affairs rather than intending to criticize anyone who works (or doesn't) on Git.
> A 10 year old Lexus is often still in it's prime.

So is a 10 year old Toyota, which is a heckuva lot cheaper.
Call it the Hyperloo. Say "have one on me!" with each flush.
I thought it was an interesting and relevant comment. I guess people disagree. However, all the people replying telling me such just makes this place feel hostile.

> I’m not trying to rag on you to be mean

Then downvote and move on, don't reply "Dude" :)

I'd be curious to see your work if you have an IMDb link though. If you're going to reply with anything other than a link to your work, please don't.
One of the holy grails in cryptocurrency research is figuring out a PoW alternative the provides similar security at reduced energy cost. A few other examples:

1. Bram Cohen's Proof of Space & Time: https://youtu.be/aYG0NxoG7yw; https://cyber.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/bramcohen.pdf

2. DFINITY VRF-based Threshold Relay: https://youtu.be/o8HHM18PedU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable_random_function)

3. Algorand: https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...

These are some of the more interesting ones, but plenty of others.
I see them say "it's a walled garden"; what do you see?
The math involved in these can be reduced to replace|reduce operations|calculation|procedures in existing algorithms for the most part (or not)? If you need to devise new algorithms for a stock trade or for pattern recognition, signal inhibition or enhancement, etc.. based on domain you might be in an area I don't recognize.
Aren't those Republican voting miners from Ohio or something (I'm from Europe) part of those conservatives? If not, who exactly are those conservatives you're talking about?

As an outside observer I always equaled conservative with Republican. Can you explain why this is not the case?
They _should_ be treated as two separate boxes as I made it so that each glyph is certain to be full width regardless of the default.
What I would've love to see is if this feature is unique to the QuickTime player, and if it is, can it be ported to something like VLC.
New dawn for physiotherapy with magnetic field therapy
You cut off the end of parent's sentence. It is "something nobody could give a crap about in the article."
If you're a gamer who plays on sub-optimal hardware, chances are you already know this. In general, full screen mode tends to perform better than windowed mode. Windowed mode means that the OS has to render and handle logic for all the window-y stuff, i.e. shadows, borders, close buttons, menus. In Windows 7 I recall a perf win was to turn off the Aero translucent window decorations, and an even bigger perf win was to simply go full screen with your game.
It does, yes, but less substantial than on Mac, due to tighter vertical integration between software and hardware.