skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classic Clean Code by Robert C. Martin <- probably won't learn much new, but worth it, just to let the concepts reenter your consciousness.

The Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus <- Changed the way I think about inner workings of the government. But at the same time, many claims are hard to verify.

The life changing magic of cleaning up by Marie Kondo <- not life changing but decent and a quick, 2-3 day read.

Nassim Taleb books, pretty sure everyone on here read it or plans to so, don't need my description.

Halfway through The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis at the moment, it's pretty good, a joint biography of Kahneman and Tversky (of the "Thinking, Fast and Slow", which I guess is another HN classic).
Antifa is a terrorist organization.
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Besides shandor's point, the Blockchain didn't invent decentralized data sharing. I, along with every developer of accounting systems in my country, was writing hash-chained ledgers before the Bitcoin paper was even published.

The innovation brought by the Blockchain was using a proof-of-work to achieve consensus and avoid double-spending in a network of semi-anonymous peers.

The vast majority of proposed uses of the Blockchain for non-currency reasons that I've seen do not suffer from this problem, and therefore do not need the innovation brought by it.
But we also have direct evidence that the distribution of genders across the disciplines increases as opportunities between the genders become more equal. That strongly implies that biology does have an affect on life choices.

It also has to be said that not all evidence is equal.

I was reading an article about this just today, as it happens, complete with citations: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...
MoviePass wants to let you go to the theater once a day for $10 a month
He's still the CEO of a $60billion corporation. Hardly voiceless.
Go strives to find defaults that are good for its core use
cases, and only accepts features that are fast enough to be
enabled by default, in a constant and successful fight
against knobs

Made me chuckle.
Well, perhaps a sufficiently complex machine that can fool their sensors, then.
Questions every manager needs to ask
They could base GPU warranties based on usage, the same way car part warranties are based on mileage. In fact Samsung already is doing the same for SSDs: they have data write limit of 400 TB.
I still drink decaf occasionally, but only around half a cup.. at most once a week. So you can have some of the ceremony of it if you want. You can also switch to an herbal tea. I do enjoy the smell of it and I miss brewing it in the morning, but the toll on my lifestyle just wasn't worth it for me.
Well, not just for accessing, but for scraping, meaning accessing a huge number of those pages in an automated way.
Feel free to kill yourself (which is a real meaning of 'going into oblivion') however you like, but please leave me out.
Top notch! It looks so easy! But you forgot the part where you spend an hour banging, cursing, and blasting that one bolt with a torch because it. just. will. not. budge, only to have it snap off and realize you're going to spend tomorrow drilling it out and tapping that hole...
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For those interested, YC has invested in a few synthetic organism companies. Ginkgo Bioworks (YC) is probably the most notable, they've raised a good amount of money on this platform. Teewinot is also working on biosythentic cannibis.

I wouldn't get your hopes up, biosythensis is a much messier and less defined process than chemical synthesis, meaning the route to market is much more rugged. There are some cool use cases that may arise - such as rust eating bacteria - but in general I'd expect an experienced synthetic chemist to be a more economy favorable route to most chemicals. Partial synthesis, where a chemist works with a partial product produced in yeast, might yield good results in some edge cases.
No one can control or take over Bitcoin development. Similarly, there is no official website or subreddit. This system has no authorities.
How does porting ZFS to Linux differ from the "porting"-via-rewrite of the Unix tools?
I think admins should intervene as a VERY LAST OPTION, and only delete truly obnoxious posts or distractimg flame wars.

If people are insulting or use foul language, sure, but if they express bad ideas, that is an opportunity to show what is wrong with it, and if you keep your tone respectful when responding it is less likely to devolve. Treat people with curtousy even if you think the ideas themselves don't deserve it. Goodwill goes a long way
Congratulations, I can imagine the amount of work that went into making it.

I like to take things apart, and it made me a bit nervous, as each piece was separated, that I would never be able to put it back together :)
> If you really do need to change an array, how do you do it in Haskell?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15017853
How would that work for Google?

If you think they shouldn't show it for Google, then that's what HiQ is suing them over :)
Women can enter into a friendship with a man perfectly well, but to maintain it - a little physical antipathy is required.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't get it.

Who are the participants in the blockchain and how do you ensure it cannot be tampered with i.e. could someone just go back to a previous block and rewrite history. Difficult admittedly. I don't understand what a consensus means in this implementation.

Also, it sounds like the trust is completely in the hands of one entity i.e. the person who adds details about the cow and cut of meat. How is that trustworthy ?

Either, the article doesn't explain how blockchain could fix a key problem in China's food industry, or it doesn't fix a key problem.

In my opinion food safety has to be regulated by a central agency like a Government. A decentral system like Blockchain isn't what solves the problem. Regulations and process are.
I don't know if the secret service is using a modified DJI or their own in-house design but they were testing a non-RF teathered drone:

https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsussspia-020-united-states...
Cascade's investments are roughly 1/2 of his wealth. Bloomberg is currently estimating he's sitting on $43 billion in cash.

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/william-h-ga...
Out of curiosity, I scrolled through a dozen pages or so of this posters comment history and your assessment of him seems highly unsupported. He's self-described as a person of Chinese descent living in the west since birth (Canada I believe) and is a developer who comments on developer type discussions.

In other words, a typical HN contributor. You should be aware that governments, even ones you disagree with, are composed of actual people, and that it's quite possible for people to have a consistent worldview that closely tracks a government's perceived worldview without actually being agents of that government.
That's unexpectedly. Meson is not so popular build system (and appeared not so long ago), but looks interesting. Autotools is pure horror, Cmake uses almost the same approach as Autotools, Blaze derivatives Bazel and Buck are only suitable for specific uses, Gyp is little known outside Chromium and was created for it. So maybe Meson is sound choice.
Yeah, took me a minute to figure that out, too. I thought this was another EVM language.
I used Hadoop well on an important fraud system. When we first deployed, we only dealt with 59 GB at rest worth of data per day. What I knew would occur is more models would run over the data with each release. I assumed that the models would become more complex over time. They would eventually need to perform calculations overs years worth of data.

Hadoop provided a data-centric approach to parallel computing. Using Cascading, a high level pipe/filter library for Hadoop, we could make complex, locally testable models. Using eventing we could plug those models into a self-managing workflow. Adding a new model meant starting a JVM for that model that hooked into the event system and ran Hadoop jobs as needed. If any one model failed, we could rerun it without affecting the rest of the system.

This scaled to 60 some odd fraud models that looked over up to 5 years worth of data (5 TB). Some were quick since they only looked at a day's worth of data. Some took several hours. In the end, Hadoop made the entire process easier to handle mentally, testable, and scalable.
I would just run constant power to my door if it means I get to walk up to it and it unlocks.
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>When a muslim plows into a crowd it's a lone wolf and we should jump to conclusions

That is literally the opposite of the actual media narrative associated with Muslims, and is often held out as the difference in coverage between Muslim-related incidents and non-Muslim ones (for want of a better differentiator).

Muslim/brown/whatever attackers are always framed in terms of their religious affiliations, and white attackers are almost always described as "lone wolves".

It beggars belief that you are trying to present that switched, with a straight face.
> isn't the whole point that you write code completely differently in functional languages?

That's certainly the conventional wisdom, but I think it's becoming less and less the case and we discover what are good styles to program in and imperative and functional styles are ending up converging somewhat.
> But to be clear, rustgo is not a real thing that you should use in production. For example, I suspect I should be saving g before the jump, the stack size is completely arbitrary, and shrinking the trampoline frame like that will probably confuse the hell out of debuggers. Also, a panic in Rust might get weird.

> To make it a real thing I'd start by calling morestack manually from a NOSPLIT assembly function to ensure we have enough goroutine stack space (instead of rolling back rsp) with a size obtained maybe from static analysis of the Rust function (instead of, well, made up).

> It could all be analyzed, generated and built by some "rustgo" tool, instead of hardcoded in Makefiles and assembly files.

Maybe define a Go target to teach Rust about the Go calling conventions? You may also want to use "xargo", which is specially built for stripping or customising "std" and to work with targets without binary stdlib support.
Control might be an illusion - we are getting into the realms of philosophy here, but some argue there is no such thing as free will.
I just paid for this using Paypal.
I prefer paying straight from my bank account rather than using a credit card. My debit card (Dutch pin card) cannot be used for online payments, but Paypal is connected to my bank account. Is Stripe able to do something similar?
>> the little lady can store her recipes

That's a great perspective, and I'm really glad you mentioned this in particular. It's one of those things that was so often repeated, and I always found it to be really bizarre. Recipes? Really?

I'd add music synth to your list of real world uses, in some sense that was a killer app for microprocessors.
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Yeah, for me caffeine is now a "special occasion" thing, and my life is much better for it. If I'm very low on sleep, or running a long race, I might have small amount, but never more than two days in a row, and I'll go weeks without it. Everybody's different, but I'm unlikely to go back.
From what I've seen of t_d, a lot of the people there were not openly anti-gay before the election.

There has been quite a bit of pruning since so I am not sure about now.
"everything in moderation", including moderation.
lol "both sides do it". face it, anime nazi gamers get beat up by not just jocks but also skinny vegans now
It mostly is if you lookup the definition of spoiler. Gary Johnson and Independent voters did also receive more votes than the difference between Trump and Hillary in MI, PA, and WI.
If you enjoyed this, you must watch the PBS documentary about Dick Proenneke, who built an amazing cabin in the Alaskan bush using hand tools, many of which he completed on-site.

He was alone out there and shot the footage himself, Les Stroud-style, decades before Les made his first episode of Survivorman:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHhsu-Vn6jZpBMVJ5Wnciz...
Do you know if any German universities offer Bachelor's in Software Engineering, or if they are comparable to US degrees, IE 4 years?
Don't they have something about "organizing the world's information and making accessible"? Here's a guy saying it's not that great to suppress view points or hard scientific facts based on dogma, that this damages Google like it would damage any other group or company, and -- he gets fired and many people distort what he actually wrote. The relationship between Google and "information" seems to kind of complicated. This is like a chef you see putting dirt into a meal; maybe they cook tasty things most of the time, but if they're a good chef, why are they ever doing something as "anti-chef" as that?
For us in particular, a big deciding factor was actually monitoring when we decided to consolidate our storage servers on ZFS on Linux (migrating a couple that were FreeBSD back to Linux).

ZFS works well enough on either these days, and most of our linux folks are certainly comfortable enough in BSD-land, but our primary server monitoring stack at the time (NewRelic's server/infrastructure agents) doesn't have any BSD support at all and they didn't have interest in adding it, so we went back to the other set of tools we knew (linux) which integrated better with the other tooling we used and didn't have time to replace.

The purists who try to suggest ZFS should be used from BSD whenever possible are probably forgetting "perfect is the enemy of good"
Brewing is a fun hobby, takes a long time for any result, but one can get geeky in the details.
> I’m often asked which companies are getting diversity and inclusion right in Silicon Valley and across the country. Most aren’t. But some are seeing small successes. Last year, we worked with a company that set a goal that women would make up 50 percent of the engineers on one of its teams. They did it by holding a webinar led by female employees, with 100 female candidates who asked questions about how the organization was changing to become more inclusive to women.

How on earth can it be the right diversity way when it requires 50% female staff? By definition the industry will be "wrong" as educated female candidates are simply much rarer.

A more helpful and balanced perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15009759
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>The vast majority of proposed uses of the Blockchain for non-currency reasons that I've seen do not suffer from this problem, and therefore do not need the innovation brought by it.

Then we've been exposed to different examples. I've not seen any non-trivial proposed uses for distributed consensus blockchain that can be exactly replaced by a central db. Replacement always involves relaxing a constraint (e.g. trust the centralized organization not to tamper, etc).

shandor's point can be generalized to "solutions looking for a problem" which I already agreed with. Where I differ is based on the actual debates on the serious uses of blockchain I've seen, I don't see that technology abuse as the overwhelming situation.
>Thiel was simply one of the only Silicon Valley guys to recognize that the prosperity experienced by major American urban centers was not being experienced by the rest of America.

He was rich enough to not get hurt for opening his mouth in a way that made it clear that on certain issues he takes the same side as people the majority in CA consider to be a bunch of hicks.

There's plenty of people in SV (or NYC, or DC for that matter) who come from less prosperous places. They'll just keep quit rather than let people know what their opinions are because that's how you get ahead when your opinions are not those of the majority.
It's interesting how many tech guys consider this guy some kind of martyr.

People are upset about his odious "Google Memo" because it's not their first rodeo with a dude who weasels around and justifies his racism/sexism with pseudoscience, not because they were "misled" by "clickbait media" or whatever.

They weren't incorrect. The 32 supposedly-critical citation links point ovewhelmingly to garbage, including 5 wikipedia links, a dozen opinion pieces, some more "academic" essays, a link to MRA-founder Warren Farrell's blog, and, perhaps best of all, a link that simply points to a google search for the term "political correctness" (lol). The "graphs" are made in powerpoint with the curve tool (one of them the infamous bell curve), and the axes don't even have ticks on them.

It's evident to anyone familiar with "the scene" that the dude got all his info from anti-feminist YouTube/Reddit, and this was proven beyond a doubt when he went on to speak at anti-feminist YouTube channels immediately after getting fired. he wasn't widely misunderstood, people just saw right through his multiple disclaimers.

This Quora answer was pretty final for me: https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...
I think that use case is oversold in terms of what's driving the price up this year.
The Nazis showed up with guns, shields, and clubs. Don't pretend like they weren't prepared for urban warfare.

Have you told your friends and family that you might be a white nationalist?
>To toss that all onto the same heap is disingenuous at best.

I feel like what people who behave as you are miss is that it could just be ignorance. Ignorance can be cured but not with aggression. Did you see the story where a black man befriended a bunch of KKK and they all ended up leaving the organization at the end? He didn't get that result with righteous indignation even if he had every right to be righteously indignant.
What do you mean by 20%?
Again, you keep pushing the false dichotomy of "blockchain vs centralized". Distributed and verifiable data sharing existed before the Blockchain!
The sort of profiling the parent comment was talking about doesn't work the other way around - it'd be idiotic to punish someone's credit score for not having a social media account or having it set to private/friends-only/un-crawlable. The lack of a social media account might even be a signal of better creditworthiness
Hi, I'm one of your unicorns! Currently attending Fullstack Academy, while I work on my GA Tech application.

I took some math and one CS class in undergrad... have messed around with algorithm study... really hoping I get in. I didn't want to pay $60k for a masters at a place like UChicago.

Where are these free masters you speak of? I don't have a lot of "accredited" classes, just a lot of self study online.
Interesting, what I got out of the video is that they seem to use Unior tools and in fact I thought it was an ad for Unior at the beginning of the video.

Might have something to do with the fact that I have been considering Unior tools for a long time now but always postpone (because of the price).
.. which is why a government guaranteed insurance with good overall coverage is necessary. severe market defects in health care furthermore make dictated prices for services/prescriptions necessary. Adjusting Obamacare for that you end up with the Swiss system - still expensive bur at least effective and IMO fair.

Thinking about it, increasing information asymmetry due to machine learning applied to marketing may make heavy regulations necessary in most other sectors as well. Imagine software that tracks every person and figures out what they need when, identifies a monopoly of opportunity for any given good and them jacks up the price just for that person individually - in real time, while the person walks up to it.

Maybe that's how capitalism ends. Slavery 2.0.
I dunno if Thiel has sway or not, but I thought his short speech at the rnc was riveting and one of the most inspirational messages that really spoke to the time, and of course aimed to reposition the right as pro gay.
> Ok, I thought it was rather very visible earlier on, such as before he even decided to run for president.

Being sued for racial discrimination in 1973 was a pretty big clue. But the birther nonsense should really have tipped everyone off about what was going on.
barbarity? I´m glad the article brings it up:

Genghis Khan is simply Mongolia’s greatest hero. The West recalls only what he conquered, but Mongolians remember what he created. His empire connected East and West, allowing the Silk Road to flourish. His rule enshrined the concepts of diplomatic immunity and religious freedom. He established a reliable postal service and the use of paper money. Genghis Khan didn’t just conquer the world, he civilised it.
Fair enough, that is the trouble with witch hunts...
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Sounds like you're really not at peace with where you are. Please take good care of yourself and be careful of black and white thinking.

On a practical note, in situations like yours, trying to get hired by meeting people personally and establishing rapport beforehand is your best bet.
> Not ONE "right-wing" person can say, hey, maybe it is my/our fault. Losers.

If they were capable of that level of reflection and self-awareness, they wouldn't be right-wing.
Please can you enlighten me?
> Except Trump constantly winks at white supremacists and actively seeks their vote.

This argument has never made any sense. White supremacists are concentrated in states that Republicans win by such large margins that victory is assured regardless of how the minority sporting swastika tattoos votes.
Keep expanding your problem field. How do you create a car free society? I live in Palatka, FL. A small town that's great for tech since housing is low cost and we have reasonably fast Internet to facilitate remote work or cloud based solution development. But to get anything other than food, I have to travel at least 45 minutes to St Augustine unless I purchase online. This means I need a car.

For example, I have 12 5/4 cedar boards in my wife's car for storm window frames. I had to drive her Vibe to Jacksonville, which is an hour drive one way. No one around here sells cedar, let alone in 5/4 width. I can't get that delivered. Even if I wanted to, I need to pick the boards since I have aesthetic requirements.

How do we solve the small town problem?
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian-national-and-bi...

Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/BTCE/comments/6tlkme/update_6/
>Distributed and verifiable data sharing existed before the Blockchain!

But I'm not talking about any distributed data sharing such as p2p bittorrent with hash verification, or git/github, or NNTP Usenet, or the distributed accounting system you worked on, etc. For purposes of this thread, "blockchain" is synonymous with decentralized trust which I believe is how it's usually used.

I can agree that blockchain didn't invent "decentralized data sharing" but that's not relevant to my point.
Private corporations and government are different, legally and philosophically. You won't be able to apply a law written specifically restricting the government to private citizens or corporations without a constitutional amendment.

What Google and GoDaddy did was the private citizen equivalent of hearing someone else state their opinion, allowing the words to enter their brain, think about them, and then decide they do not espouse those opinions, so they will not go around stating them to other people as fact. That is not censorship, it's just good sense.
the stock does not have to be sold. it is used as collateral. The bank will accept $1 billion of MSFT stock in exchange for probably $1 billion cash