skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read somewhere (probably on HN) that it could be related to their acquisition of Permabit, a company which seems to be producing Linux software for deduplication, compression and thin-provisionning. This seems more in-line with what btrfs has to offer.
Have to be honest, I've wondered why Reddit doesn't do this. Seems like a simple change that'd open up a lot of possibilities for aggregators.

Especially given how many popular posts have a top rated comment by the author which does nothing more than explain stuff that could have been explained in the post itself (had the service given them room to do so).
With the current state of Bitcoin, you are absolutely right, but at the moment there are some developments that will improve this situation, mainly lighting network [0] which will help Bitcoin to scale in the number of transactions per second, granted, this is an off-chain transaction but it might be the right way to do it.

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0. https://lightning.network/
Yes. You'll note a lot of writing about this from the US posing questions that ignores that we already know what this service will be like, because they've already piloted it in the UK. And they're going ahead with it because it did reasonably well.

This article already fails by virtue of going "whu, no Marvel, how do the build a proposition here?" We already flaming know.
You only have a free market without coercion as long as all participants act in good faith. Otherwise you either have to let bad actors get away with whatever they like, in which case you no longer have a market, or else someone has to coerce them into fulfilling their obligations.
Or conversely big players will pony up for larger operations to exploit marginal inefficiencies and other economies of scale, which is what seems to be happening.

Additionally you're assuming the only motive behind mining bitcoin is the value of bitcoin, effectively ignoring realities like, e.g., that entities use it to avoid capital flight regulations.
Curing blank page syndrome: turn every engineer into a writer
The bill of rights merely lists some rights that you already have even without the bill of rights. They are called natural rights -- in fact the bill is a limit on government, not a grant to the people from government.

That being said, the constitution has established an independent judiciary which has little limit to what matters it can opine. You have a right to petition that judiciary. You're somewhat correct in that you don't have a right for them to listen.
It might seem silly, but I'm looking forward to the first AI talk therapist. Most of the benefit of therapy is the talking, so it's not as crazy as it sounds.
The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone
The new startup marketting language...

Holograms = Augmented Reality

Hover Board = Self balancing wheeled vehicle

AI = algorithms, sometimes big data, rarely machine learning or neural networks
So as I understand correctly this is the same as with 3D movies in cinema, but now the computer knows where each glasses are and is changing the phase of the light for each user.

Interesting tech and although the article is full of shopped images and a video that doesn't tell a thing, this might actually work.
And terrorism could be a conspiracy theory.
Why do you consider this a joke site?

And just because you are easily confused, everybody should stick to .com only?
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> ...Buterin has earned the right...

Care to explain why?
Someone who saves a huge amount on their car insurance because they own such a vehicle (and therefore should never be subjecting the insurance company to claims caused by their impaired driving) I assume?
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Ask HN: Best marketplace for passive income businesses?
I feel like University of Phoenix, a for-profit university, is a bit unfair of a comparison to a not-for-profit university. Especially when a significant portion of for-profit universities aren't properly accredited, and actually represent a very significant portion of student loan obligations (see https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/the-fai...).
AppArmor is configured to run by default on any fresh installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_security/data...

All the drama was back in 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20160410165126/http://www.cnet.c... Looks like it blew over by 2008 https://news.opensuse.org/2008/08/20/opensuse-to-add-selinux...
I have never claimed that it's unique. In fact, most ideas in tech is just old wine in a new bottle.

However, I guess what made it appealing initially, was that it uses a syntax known to a lot of web developers. The callback pattern helped.

Although these days, we have been moving away to generators or async-await.
Microsoft unveils Brainwave, a system for running super-fast AI
If I was WhatsApp, I would offer to compensate those who have found the exploit for their work.

Sure, their rate is $1 million an hour :).

I could see the government jump in and pressing charges but the worst thing Whats-app can do is piss them off.
It is an interesting example of how a camel is a horse designed by committee.

And basically the reason we have JS is because we can't agree on anything else. So JS is what we've got.

But you should take JS seriously, because it's what we've got. It's not going anywhere. And it powers the Internet. And for right now the Internet is the end all, be all, technology.
Humans are involved in banking transactions too, don't discount the carbon footprint of the collective of bankers and bank tellers.

Those people won't go away if we eliminated the whole banking system, but their carbon footprint will not have been wasted on the tracking and transfer of assets!
I recently needed something "interesting" to run on a simple microcontroller (ESP8266) so I ported Zork to FreeRTOS. It ran fine. Connect via serial port...
Heard of Emacs's M-x doctor?
> It seems like a completely ignored aspect of cryptocurrency.

I don't think it's ignored at all. It's covered in Bitcoin's FAQ because it comes up pretty often. Also some folks have tried to create coins that use something other than a PoW. Some have created coins whose PoW has independent utility (XPM: cunningham chains of primes).

> raw materials that go into all these GPUs

Well, thank goodness the GPUs have independent utility. If you want to be concerned about waste, the ASICs are generally much less useful after difficulty increases than GPUs.

> seriously perverse.

shrug people every day "waste" global resources on things that I think are totally worthless. You might see bitcoin and friends as similarly worthless but if absolutely nothing else it does seem like it has real utility for making remittances more affordable.
How California Grid Operators Managed the Eclipse
The other day I was thinking about Uber Therapy, get a mini therapy session on the way to your destination!
There may be plenty of deadweight, but they aren't on high salaries. Pretty much all the management and sales people could get paid (a lot) more elsewhere, and they likely will go now that they aren't bound by any sense of loyalty. And the new owners will help them out the door with golden handshakes.

Everyone wins, except anyone who is foolish enough to believe that 'nothing will change'.
Thank you! It's so good to see hype free discussion of this stuff.

I would also add that using simulations to test (or train) robots is also not new, and has significant limitations. Robotics has been using simulation since before the Grand Challenge, but what we find is that simulations make simplifying assumptions that don't bear out in real life: simulated sensors are more idealized than in real life, object recognition is idealized, actuators are idealized. But that makes it hard to apply any learnings to the real world, where sensors hallucinate and actuators lie all the time.

And yeah, we _could_ be fuzzing the simulation and adding failure modes, but not many people do. It's hard to simulate these kinds of defects in a usefully realistic way.
Cloud neutrality now
This is a pretty cool hack!

Next time, when you you are showing off a project you may want to consider doing a Show HN[1]

1.https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
"All this crypto currency mining and speculation is a perverse form of wasting resources"

It is not a waste because we extract economic & social worth from cryptocurrencies. Same thing with cars: they waste 97% of their fuel energy but we tolerate them because they provide obvious economic advantages. Also see: http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-mining-is-not-wasteful/
I wonder if switching from cmake to buck[1] and buckaroo[2] would simplify and increase reproducibility.

[1] https://buckbuild.com

[2] https://buckaroo.pm
Is building a new currency that is the platform for billions of dollars of rampant unproductive speculation not enough?
I've read only a few parts of the judgment, but it reads like poetry while at the same time being crisp and powerful! Even when the hearings were on, there were many references and discussions that showed the broad scope of accepting and considering jurisprudence from elsewhere and seeing what would benefit people.

That this was an unanimous verdict makes it even better. I was apprehensive until today morning, and after hearing the verdict, I've been ecstatic!
Some of these seem related to spam operations but honestly it's very difficult for providers to protect their users against this type of ignorance. Though I guess Trello could check if variations of 'password' and 'username' are found on a card and, if the board is public, warn the user about this.
Most firms DO invest (lots of) money into security for their customers, bounty programs were not invented by Zerodium.

Brokers like Zerodium will inflate the price of 0 days, for sure. Maybe this will be an incentive for 0 days researchers to dig deeper. At least they'll be richer. But maybe it will cause more harm than good: it's a market place for exploits, and Zerodium will look like a 0day Wallmart to hackers.

"They can sell to the companies themselves, domestic and foreign governments, or terrorists": I consider the only ethical option is the first one.

If you're really concerned about security for consumers, can you tell me how you're trusting "domestic and foreign governments, or terrorists" to protect your security when they're buying exploits?

They're buying exploits, holes in security: they don't buy you more security, it's the exact opposite.

I'm sure companies are much more concerned about security for their customers than any other actor. Why would a third party want access to exploits if not to defeat the security put in place by the company?

0 days researching is essential to plug holes, not to punch holes. Only the target can plug holes, the other "customers" only want to punch holes.
ELIZA was already there.
Were they ever intended to be anonymous? Always heard the point of bitcoin wasn't to be a 'private' way to spend money, but to provide a currency system not controlled by a government.

The blockchain is a permanent record for goodness sake.
What is Bitcoin and the blockchain?
I go to Whole Foods all the time and I don't get the "attitude" you're talking about. They've got a good selection of cheese and prepared foods, they carry milk from local producers, the meat is fresh, they do a good job sourcing their sea food, and they offer free samples. What "normal brands" am I missing out on?
You can if you are a member of Congress.
I was surprised to see the headline because I thought I'd missed the part where she sued in a lower court, the part where the case was appealed multiple times, and the part where the Supreme Court accepted the case.

Nope, should have realized it was a clickbait title. She's just filing amicus briefs, which is almost never considered newsworthy.

Edit: Title has been updated, thanks!
Yeah, just 50 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
An Introduction to Surface Continuity
> I shouldn't need to hackjob my kernel to make a single individual lone drive work.

You don't. You only need the hack if you do a bad job of cleaning up after the loss of the other half of your two-drive mirror. ZFS won't let you transition in-place from RAID to non-RAID at all. Btrfs just requires that you not reboot in the middle of that migration.
Count me as one of them.

The implementations are what matter. They're the only thing that matters. It's the business axiom "Ideas are worthless, it's the implementation that counts" at work.

Ask yourself this: If V8's performance was still at 2010 levels, would Node exist?

And if some other language were the one which had been picked for browsers - JavaScript relegated to only running on servers - I wager JavaScript would hardly be used at all.
I/O is not going to be any faster by having more threads. More threads are not gonna give you more RAM either. And CPU-bound tasks are only faster if the OS you are running in exposes multiple CPUs.
With VMs and containers with focus on horizontal scaling (many relatively small machines) that is not the case either. Effectively the message-passing communication between threads still exists, but has moved outside the service: done by a load-balancing HTTP router and/or a message broker like RabbitMQ. Another example is when using out-of-process persistence like with Redis.
I agree. I think they are both comfortable and sound good, but the leather (or faux-leather) starts to flake and fall apart quickly.
This is resolvable if you think of a driver "shim" that's a derivative work of both a GPL'd codebase (e.g. Linux) and a non-GPL'd codebase (GPU drivers). It's possible for the GPU driver's proprietary license to permit linking without license restrictions, meaning that a "shim" kernel module which loads the binary blob can be under the kernel's copyleft license without problem (since while it's a derivative work of both the module and the blob, only one license is copyleft).

(I don't know if this is what AMD/Nvidia actually do ToS-wise, but it's at least feasible).

Doing this for ZFS is harder, since the shim would have to be a derivative work of both a GPL'd codebase and a CDDL'd codebase, neither licenses of which are compatible with one another. Dual-licensing is probably illegal, as is just picking one over the other.

IANAL, though, and I might be grossly misunderstanding the problem.
> We think that the UX trade off in the URL is OK given the performance benefits.

So basically the argument boils down to "because I have shit internet, everyone else should suffer too".
I use all that stuff and constantly run into it, are you using it in anger?

Here's a few I can remember off the top of my head:

- A (relatively) huge 6ms lag between the website and the DB

- One (random) site will mysteriously max out on memory on app-pool startup and take all the others down

- Their scheduler has no concept of timezones

- Their scheduler uses your local time when setting up the job, but UTC for other parts (this has been an open issue for over a year I think)

- Files will get mysteriously locked in deployments and the deployment process will silently fail

- Deployments will suddenly take an absolute age for no reason

- The entire admin UI will slow to an absolute crawl for hours on end

- Some admin tasks always claim they've failed, even though they've succeeded

- Their API wrapper is just wrong on almost every level

Add on top of that the worse management UI I've ever had to deal with and it makes Azure very painful to use at times. Some-one thought nesting menus in a standardised format was a good idea. It wasn't. Everything is fairly terribly named too. Want to see how your deployments doing? That's under "Deployment Options".

Performance is also dogshit compared to the cost, my 4 year old laptop is faster than their "premium" offerings.
Personal experience: NPM can be mind-bogglingly slow in Windows. In my previous day-job, an NPM install on Windows 7 could take hours, for some reason. That's NPM 3 with about 20 dependencies on a small project.

NPM on Windows also had other problems such as Python path is wrong or C++ compiler is missing.

Then we switched to Yarn. Uncached install took about 2-3 minutes, and cached install would finish in seconds.

Recently, NPM 5 has been released, and it's been competing well against Yarn.
Also glad to see this. Still curious as to why they wouldn't post it as a research paper on arXiv -- what's the point in reinventing the wheel here? I suppose it's nice for publicity, but would be great if they also played nicely with the ecosystem.
Show HN: Critiquing logo designs via deep learning
Fun fact: In tor browser google maps shows the newer imagery, in firefox it's using older images (and also talks german). (Ok, it seems to be tied to the browser language…still…)
The issue wasn't "light water reactors" it was "uranium fuel cycle". Cheap uranium definitely benefited the US government.
Google's essentially a cloud company, any devices are just remote terminals. I doubt they'll ever change that.
Didn't they move to FreeBSD?
I haven't received a payment yet actually -- it is still pending.
One of the problems most conspiracy theories have is that they revolve around complex plotlines, that are executed in a flawless fashion.

Very few things work out as neatly as a conspiracy theory in real life, and the CIA mind control attempts (eg MKUltra) is no execption. For all the awful details of that program, ironically one could argue that its most notable consequence was to help create 1960s counter-culture. (Without Project MKUltra, the life of Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter would have been very, very different.)
Running tip also helpful to developers: get your gear ready
That is usually the bar, I like the relativity of how people's opinions suddenly begin mattering because they were associated with something that is over a billion dollars now.

Don't know why people may try to create a separate standard for cryptocurrency.
Yes, I know of plenty that use common lisp and some that use racket and scheme.
It is a bit like "victim blaming" but as in almost all cases of that, there is obviously good advice that people could follow to avoid being victimized.

Yes, you are right that it is those companies that have been defrauded, not you. But why should those companies trust someone who doesn't follow simple measures to protect themselves and those they do business with?

It cuts both ways.

Should an auto insurance company never raise your rates after theft, even if you repeatedly leave the car running unattended with the doors open?

Sure, the thief bears the responsibility, ultimately... but you're still being careless and the insurance company has every right to drop you or raise your rates.
>which makes arbitration binding

That is AFAIK for international arbitrations, does not affect "domestic" ones.
Not that it helps in the moment, but every time that has happened to me, I've reported it to Google and they've changed it.
From https://github.com/colebemis/feather/blob/master/README.md#l...:

License

Feather is licensed under the MIT License.
I really like that these are SVG icons with a minimal amount of paths rather than an icon font.
I bought Deep Work off a HN recommendation, that included a whole bunch of follow-on comments about how great it was.

And it was well worth it.
Also interesting: https://bazel.build/
> everwhere else it's slower.

No, everywhere else it's the normal speed your servers can deliver it to clients. Nothing about AMP is slowing down your normal web page.

The positioning and display are a ranking boost for whoever chooses to implement AMP pages - they are not explicitly targeted at Google services, which is the behavior the EU fined them for.

Anyone who thinks the EU is going to fine Google for AMP is actively avoiding reality at this point.
Personally I think the problem is the ad bubble in general not just Google.
because some ICMP types are actually dangerous and can be abused
I understand this is not inherently presented here as any particular solution or competitor, although its presence here elevates it as such, so why use this or do this instead of using the library at thenounproject.com ?
Want to learn something? Research it and present your work
Now we only need to attach some TTS to it!
Fascinating. That is NOT my experience. I hear people complain about Amazon and Amazon employees all the time.
And I agree with you this is overreaching and people must oppose this. Watering down the requirements for Aadhar is not a good solution.
>More than ever we need Linux standards

Why is that? Given sufficient resources, isn't competition and innovation better?
Instagram et all provides humans with a great deal of value compared to bitcoin though. Rather than hashing random things they allow communication and entertainment.
Yeah, that was my point. 85bn in value on 13bn invested is impressive, but that might not include other money.

It seems like they left out "total money invested" to make the return sound a little better.
Do they need to?

Why assume that, unless the author explicitly mentions the existence of plausible theories and add a caveat that not all conspiracy theories are absurd, they must be arguing for the condemnation of anyone who believes in a conspiracy?

Why not discern the authors' intent from their actual words? Actual, verifiable conspiracies do exist, meanwhile everything the article claims about the nature of conspiracy theory is also true.
Saving water can still be a false mentality. For example, my wife's hometown has poor water infrastructure. On vacation days everyone is home and nobody saves since the source is plenty. By noon the infrastructure is overloaded and gives out until evening. If people were more frugal everyone could have water all day.
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I think people just realize that employee pay is often never tied to how much value an employee provides, but rather how much leverage an employee has. This gets confusing as employers often view leverage as value, but it's a different type of value compared to volume of output (which is how many employees would define their value).

So it stands to reason that if employees want to "take charge of their own decisions" it is directly tied to the decisions of their co-workers. You can't increase your leverage if your co-workers deleverage themselves/decide they don't care about money.

I don't understand how you don't understand this.
Yeah I agree and understand what you are saying but this does not contradict what I said earlier in any way.
Bitcoin ‘Celebrity ICO’ Sees Kim Dotcom Fund Bitcache with Crypto
Does anyone knows the difference to other languages like STAN?

Both use Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. As far as I know STAN cannot model factors but can restrict a variable to integers. In this case, Turing.jl and STAN do the same and switch back to slower MCMC.

So why should I switch to turing.jl?

Their wiki shows that turing.jl is about 10 times slower than STAN:

Results
Model	Turing	Stan	Ratio
Simple Gaussian Model	1.2	0.06	20.24
Bernoulli Model	1.53	0.05	32.73
School 8	2.34	0.1	24.41
Binormal (sampling from the prior)	0.88	0.11	8.37
Kid	32.66	4.72	6.92
LDA-vec	23.94	3.78	6.34
LDA	72.78	3.78	19.28
Mixture-of-Categorical	22.28	6.41	3.48
NOTE 1
Numbers here are inference time in second - smaller number indicates better performance.
This transcript of a Steve Jobs interview linked from the article seems still very relevant:

https://stratechery.com/2013/steve-jobs-on-television/

Seems like Netflix is slowly chiseling a way at the TV go-to-market strategy. Also seems like there is still a lot of resistance to the single-integrated-UI problem. Still lots of paradigms, apps, and devices competing to be the accepted way to find and watch video on your big living room screen.