skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of hardware are you looking to produce? If its fairly simple stuff with a single micro controller, a handful of sensors, and maybe a little I/O then I'd point you towards Arduino. It might not the be most elegant solution for hardware, but it'll be a good stepping stone to get your feet wet and see if you want to really pursue it.
The rich will make their politicians add a tax so that the middle class to pay for the armies that keep themselves in line.
I stopped reading at "has caused Microsoft to develop operating systems that people wanted".

- Telemetry.

- Candy Crush.

- Updates crammed down my throat.

- ReFS removed from W10 Pro.

- Still an OS that doesn't know if it's for touch or keyboard/mouse. The information density on Settings app for example is laughable on a 27 inch monitor.

- Every major update used to reset search/privacy settings.

But yeah, it's what people wanted.
True. Central banks and politicians spent so much time and energy getting rid of gold. Why would statists accept widespread adoption of a cryptocurrency as a popular means of payment?
The second and third book are even better :) You're in for an amazing ride! Enjoy!
It's not just "the rich" that wouldn't want this. Do the simple math, if I make 100k a year, which is middle class in most of the US, I would be paying >25% in taxes, which would be at least over 25k. It's a heavy burden to the middle class, and the people it really only benefits are the ones in poverty.
Because AMP is Google's attempt to insert themselves in content distribution and capture an even bigger slice of the pie but with a thin vaneer of 'making the web faster'.

People are angry because Google exists on the open web, unlike Facebook which is pretty much self-contained, and they're big enough that they'll probably succeed.
> Clearly, if academics then decide they want to talk to the public, they immediately have a problem, because you can't talk to the public using thought and language systems that are designed to exclude the public.

> This is the first piece I've seen by an academic that understands this.

Understanding of this is implicit in every book an academic writes for a general audience.
>Poor error detection? No error correction?

It's implemented at a higher level. For bitcoin, a 32 bit check field is appended to the data to serve as a checksum. If you want parity, I'd imagine that could be done as well.

>Confused characters in alphabet? Case sensitivity?

Some look alike letters are excluded, hence why base58 rather than base62.
Had to update https://www.npmjs.com/package/nsaname again. It never stops...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121020
I wasn't there when the first dot-com bubble happened but having read about it, all the recent developments seem to be vaguely similar to that time. Burgeoning exchange prices with no solid fundamentals, inexperienced people launching their cryptocurrencies, everyone expecting to get rich quick and people trying to get on the bandwagon to avoid missing out. The last bit is crucial because that's what drives most bubbles: everyone wants a share of the next big thing.

It seems the tech bubble that is being predicted for the last decade would manifest itself in a slightly different form. I doubt that the end-result would be anything different than a crash.
Fallout from this perhaps? Their DNS got hacked today or yesterday, report's a bit vague.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/31/wikileaks...
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Exactly, and no mention if this would affect welfare and other social programs. So if someone still gets all the aid they do today and $1K per month, then there is more money to spend but are there more people who want to work where that money is spent?

I think it likely that this would cause low end job wages to rise, not necessarily increase employment.
My wife went through undue torture and stress due to all the breastfeeding virtue signaling. She was simply unable to produce enough despite her best efforts. My kids are 12 and 7 now and both have proven to be quite intelligent.
A hosting provider from China was targeted with 16 DDoS attacks within a day
With the same reasoning, you could also say that traditional money (wether electronic or paper) is useless.
> By this logic, corporate pressure to eliminate environmental regulations is "good" because they are "ineffective programs".

Environmental regulations prevent a harm. A dollar value can be attached to the harm, the cost to compensate victims and clean up the damage. If a company is polluting but not providing enough value to compensate for that pollution then they're a parasite and the state does not benefit from avoiding environmental regulations in order to attract them.

In practice not polluting is almost always more cost effective than polluting and then cleaning it up afterwards, so states that have environmental regulations will out compete states that allow pollution and then have taxes high enough to recover the cost of pollution from local companies.

If that wasn't the case then it wouldn't actually be a problem. Suppose someone invented a way of converting CO2 + H2O + sunlight into hydrocarbons that was so efficient it put all the oil companies out of business. Now everyone is still emitting carbon, and increasing carbon would still cause climate change, but recovering the carbon using that process would be more cost effective than alternatives that don't emit carbon to begin with. Which would make doing that a completely reasonable thing to do.

The problem case is when the state is externalizing its costs, e.g. West Virginia burns coal and the pollution spreads to many other states. Those are the cases where national regulations (or international treaties) are necessary. Not because the state is allowing a company to externalize costs, since it has no incentive to do that if the state is the one paying the full cost of that. But instead because the state itself is externalizing costs and that requires some external force to prevent it, equivalent to the need for the state to prevent the company.
I'm waiting for the day when I can order 20lbs of killer bees on Amazon Prime ... but shipped to someone else's office.
Copacetic. Misspelling an uncommon word spoils the effect.
> The elephant in the room is that humanities have zero predictive power.

An absolute statement. Do you really think it's true?

Are you really saying you can gain no predictive power by studying history? Ethics? Sociology?

> If Trump gets elected...you get stuff like this article "oh my what kind of person we are in this Trump era".

Science did a great job predicting Trump would be elected.
Why does Essential need passports and driver's license of customers?
> Who is buying goods or services using bitcoins? Anyone?

Excuse me, I am. Expedia, Cheap Air, NewEgg, Microsoft, Dell and lots of other merchants accept it and I used them.
This is a really good example of cruel unjustified victim blaming and "sad and ignorant of others situation". We are all in awe of your high horse of hindsight.
This is wrong. Inflation doesn't measure the price of goods, it measures the price of money.

"Inflation always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." -Milton Friedman
> Yet, I felt that if my name was in any way affiliated with a service also used by neo-Nazis it was my moral responsibility to break that affiliation.

By that logic your name is associated with a service also used by child pornographers and ISIS. Is it your moral responsibility to break that affiliation?
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Don't know about bees but there's https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00533KOIC, or https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I0ZXU18/ for a prime option
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No, it is called "the money game" where the dealer holds all the cards. If it truly were a market those bankers would not stand a chance as they would easily be circumvented.
Don't put your cryptocurrency on rooted phones: $400K lost doing just that
Can you blame us? This is largely a subjective matter, and the different organizations who talk about this kind of thing have often-conflicting ideologies about how all this works.

When I hear "open source", I don't know which camp the speaker is sitting in. It's perfectly reasonable to get mixed up sometimes.
Not a fan of their product though - two live frogs in a tiny plastic box. Seems a bit cruel.
What country are you talking about? Are you familiar with WIC? In the US there's no woman from sea to shining sea who should be going without formula unless she sold it to buy drugs! And if WIC won't provide enough, there's literally thousands of churches and other charities out there falling all over each other to help infants in need.
Yep, as long as you're remote enough you can get a truly fascinating view.

Last summer I camped in Zion National Park and it was the first time I've seen the night sky with such clarity. I couldn't look away - I laid outside of the tent and just stared for hours.

The fact that we're in the midst of a big explosion is quite striking.
it's definitely not perfect. I think the embedding-vector approach of image search isn't scale invariant.
The article talks about 5th amendment violation, but what about the 6th: the right to a speedy trial?
Exactly. It's rather hard to estimate the probability of an event for which there is only one known example.
For what it's worth, I'm actually trying to solve the problem of creating a verifiably secure device based on a tamper-resistant design at the moment, so that bias crept in a bit.

I fully realize that what I'm trying to do (build a trustable boot path that's also hackable) is impossible to 100% achieve; I'm instead trying to see if I can build a super cheap design that's irritatingly expensive to circumvent (for a known value of "expensive", with hopefully 5 or 6 zeroes).

It's a thought experiment at this point; I guess I'm practicing hammering every nail in sight with my ideas to test if my mindset is actually sane or not :P
As someone who is going to implement "find-my-friends" in this way, and wants to do it conscientiously, may I ask why only the first 10 bytes of the SHA1? Isn't that just an incomplete hash that could collide with other valid numbers?
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Here's an illustration:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-open-overlap.en.html

I manually went through each of the OSI licenses and compared them to the FSF's list a while back, and there were only a couple differences. I don't have time to dig them up right now, but they're largely the same.

We reject the term "open source" not because of the licensing, but because of the philosophy: it was created to explicitly ignore the ethical concerns (users' freedoms) and focus instead on a development methodology.
> as the parent comment points out, lots of issues have been found with it.

I'm not familiar with the research here so I can't say either way. But a preliminary google scholar search turned up a lot of articles which seem to suggest that breastfeeding has a bunch of positive impacts on numerous intelligence and general well-being metrics.

The article itself has been cited 209 times according to google scholar [1], and this study [2] (cited 400+ some odd times) seems to accept some of the propositions made in this paper as givens.

Anyway, I think it would have been interesting if the null hypotheses here weren't rejected. I kind of expect evolution to have optimized human breastmilk over alternatives for infant development.

1. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1509419575151008169...
2. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/3/e827.sho...
Or maybe it is dead in the water because of horrid assumptions in their model...
I attended a Cisco-sponsored IoT conference in 2014 where they showed a live demonstration of ANPR on the streets of Chicago, and actually managed to catch a stolen car during the demonstration. I had my car stolen in LA and would gladly sacrifice some vehicular privacy to give a network of dashcams the opportunity to recover it (it was eventually recovered many days later, ransacked and with a lot of damage).
Ask people who use or advocate using Google GLB to build a small equivalent of it using regular instances.
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"I usually look for the ones that stand out... Like if they're wearing red shirts. Those will be removed before the other attendants. I mean, they're just asking for it! No more than 8 allowed per shipment!"
One part that stands out is that "only queens" can be mailed, but attendants are allowed. As I read that, if I for some reason wanted to mail 8 non-queen bees, it would somehow only be legal if I added a queen.
Essentially, we have no clue. I'm optimistic that a bacteria like level is quite usual (like > 1e-6), but it baseless optimism. IANAA IANAB, IANAAB, ...

This is the same problem that has the Drake equation: we don't have a good estimation of most of the factors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Criticism
It works.
I can play games on it.
I can play much more games on it and easier than on linux and macos.
Lightroom runs on it.
Everyone knows it.

But still your comment doesn't even answer the comment you commented on.

I use windows and arch linux and ubuntu. Like them all.

And yes my arch linux i need to update anyway otherwise my chrome and kernel is out of date and insecure.
7200 disks in 1 "array" for 30PB of storage. This cluster is described as their "playground"

https://cds.cern.ch/record/2015206/files/CephScaleTestMarch2...
https://indico.cern.ch/event/594977/contributions/2407197/at...
I worked for a company that did exactly this. It provides security for the majority of the gas stations in the country. It scans every single license plate of cars entering the premise. It then queries a freely accessible, government provided database for the car's model and whether it was reported stolen. If it was reported stolen, the alarm goes off. Also, if the license plate is on the country-wide blacklist that the company maintains, weeeh, the alarm goes off and the pumps get blocked. They also attempt to match license plates to individuals so they can be recognised when they return. Of course, all of this is linked to transaction history etc.
Performance different between Candy Crush Saga and its clones
No, when hear the term open source the first thing that come in mind is that the source is readable, thats it nothing else is implied. That being said, oher entities/organization might have their own definition. I'm sure there are many people who use the term open source like mine.
They made a decision to cut the compatibility but also made the 32bit XP mode VM ship with windows for a transition period (unsure if it's still available). I think it feels like a fair compromise (assuming the VM only causes an overhead for those who need it, but having a whole kernel subsystem for legacy apps might mean security or performance issues for all users)
HN has turned into reddit!
Old, but I still find it amusing: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/po...
Certainly any job that only offers "do this and we give you enough money to barely live" will have to pay more.
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Wouldn’t you need to put everybody in test mode anyway for, you know, the test?
> Maybe Gmail has a setting to display emails correctly (like Yahoo) but I haven't heard about it.

There is. I ended up setting up my Gmail where unread and read emails are in separate accordion-like sections. The 3 tabs thing makes for horrible UX
This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
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What's missing from these discussions is a trend for trade volume. If more and more transactions are being done using cryptocurrencies, then that suggests that a shift is coming, and could provide a timeline for how soon it will arrive.
Slightly more seriously, it's still not even clear if cryptocurrencies are really functioning as investable assets--thing you buy and hold for appreciation--or actual money--the unit of accounting for economic activity. It will be hard to be both. During the gold-standard era, this was achieved by government price controls on gold. That's basically what the 'standard' was, a price control. And it turns out in practice, this is hard to maintain, which is why it eventually failed.
And let's not forget the elephant in the room: inflation. The real value of that money will disappear over night.
There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between the author's understanding of bias in AI and the actuality of it.

Google's "Gorilla" incident was a result of bad training data. Recidivism scoring is the result of multiple unfortunate truths that the data concerning crime will lead you to, no racism or bias required. Nikon cameras detecting Asian faces as blinking happens for obvious reasons; claiming that there's racism or bias is especially absurd in this case. Microsoft's chat bot is the result of intentionally targeted training data to get a certain (unsavory) result. Google's language algorithm reflects the bias of language and its usage, not the algorithm.

I will be glad to accept any example of a bias (and not the underlying data) presenting itself in an algorithm. Until then, the underlying argument behind these diversity pushes needs work to be truly compelling.
For me (in Europe as well) I get the impression that it is shallow, pretty people that engage in that sort of behavior. Nice clothes, they look pretty but not much personality.
Yeah, I agree it would be better if people in the event loop community learned to use the word “concurrency” correctly.
After reading the API docs, it appears that the FCC operates a mini-imgur/pastebin/file hosting service to help attach files to FCC filings:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/public-api-docs.html#Full-Filing-St...

Unfortunately, these "temporary" file uploads end up accessible from the main FCC domain (i.e. fcc.gov), unlike e.g., Google (e.g., "googleusercontent.com" vs. "google.com"). In Google's case, the separate domain helps distinguish the content as unofficial.

It's understandable why it was originally engineered this way, since it's probably easier to create a subdomain under fcc.gov rather than to get an unrelated domain, but that's why we ended up here!
> ..the fight for Windows server against Linux is one Windows absolutely can’t win..

Windows server already has been winning on-premise every year for a long time There are way more SMBs out there than big businesses and they all run Windows servers on-premise. Just take a look at the usage numbers of one popular piece of cross-platform software that IT departments might run - https://community.spiceworks.com/networking/articles/2462-se...

Oh, you were just talking about web-servers, right? Well Windows server also has greater than 30% of the public web server market share, more than any one Linux variant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

As the Apple crowd likes to point out - Microsoft is also a profit leader compared to companies that hock Linux.

> Creative work is going to mobile in a big way...

No it's not.

> ...gaming is already mostly mobile...

Not really, unless you contort your stats to include every single person playing Candy Crush on their phone. Have you ever watched Twitch? Nobody is playing mobile games there. Everybody there is running Windows.

> ...there’s been a huge move to natively support Linux with games (roughly half of new steam releases and 25% of all steam games are already on Linux)...

Oh really? Linux having 25% the support for games means Windows is going down, but somehow Windows having 30% of the web server market means that Windows is also going to lose there? Pffffft. OK!

This article is garbage.
It's instincts, it does not have brain capacity to think "ha ha ha a human! Let's be evil and ruin their picnic".

Probably instead what happens is while crawling around it detects the surface it crawled on is actually the body of a large living entity, so going into defense mode is one possible response. Not sure if in this case it's because it may make you move to get free if stuck under you, or chase away possible threats to nest, or because possible food source?
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...and probably get 10 years in federal prison for doing so.
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Did you find any library that implements this? I mean, it should not be hard to implement, just slap together some templating language like thymeleaf or velocity and shell it to the headless browser. But still, it would be nice to have all this already implemented.
Also, the writer's name was Ernest Hemingway. He was from Illinois, despite his time in Spain.
No way man. After the Goldilocks scandal I can't bear that company anymore.
When I first hear the term bananas the first thing that comes to my mind is apples. :-)
In the dot-com bubble, there is a huge difference between the underlying technology and all the failing dot-coms. The bubble grew, and burst, because of the many companies that had little other than Internet buzzwords and got crazy valuations. Those went bust but the Internet as a whole only continued to grow and become increasingly important.

With crypto currently, there is a similar pattern. I follow the Ethereum ecosystem closely, and there's an incredible amount of projects that just say they will do something with crypto and blockchain, and they get millions or tens of millions - and in the most ridiculous case, you have Golem with its 0.5 billion valuation. The projects that aren't outright scams still rarely have anything functional and worthwhile, just like the many dot-coms of the 90s. But the underlying technologies, the blockchain as a concept and the blockchain-as-VM the way it's being done with Ethereum and NEO, I think those are incredibly significant and not going away.

And there are probably a few crypto projects around now that are going to end up being significant (just like the dot-com bubble also gave us Amazon and Google, it wasn't all failures). One such project I like is Sia. It's not too hyped up but it solves an interesting problem, and it actually works.
You believe 12k a year basic income will make people work less ?
Behold the quintessential modern literary / humanities intellectual in all its glory. A pretentiously long and drawn out article about mistrust of academia. And at no point does he talk about the possibilities that some or all humanities academics' work could be based on false or unrealistic premises; or contain deductions based on faulty reasoning; or the work makes no unfalsifiable conjectures yet the academic still claims to have expertise. It seems the last thing this guy will ever attempt is making a falsifiable prediction by using his mountains and mountains of theory. Nope, just add more theory and hope you fool people with the BS!
It could perhaps go open source in the same way .NET has. A core part of it might be made open source, such as the IOT core windows bits. They need a good reason for it. Hobbyists adapting it for various SoCs could be one such reason.

The vast codebase that is the "full" x64 Windows desktop OS though? I'll eat my hat if that happens. Source made visible, sure. That's already true for a lot of it. But proper open source, don't hold your breath.
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