skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes KSQL is ideal for use cases similar to those that CEP was initially targeted for and more - from real-time anomaly detection, monitoring, analytics to application development and Streaming ETL. As you alluded to, the big difference is that KSQL is designed as a distributed Streaming SQL engine that can run at Kafka scale.
Bitcoin is the first technological form of money. This means it is going thru the normal technology adoption cycle like a high tech startup does, yet its' a form of money. It's a new thing.

Every time the user base expands a bit as more people become aware of it, then the price goes up.

At the same time, every 4 years the rate of emission is being cut in half... so, more people want bitcoins but there are less new bitcoins being made.

That's not a pyramid scheme but it's also not going to produce a perfect %0.2 appreciation per day type schedule.

It is an investment. With a lottery ticket your odds of winning are very small and you will likely lose almost all the money. With a pyramid scheme, the early entrants are paid with money from the later entrants as part of a scam-- and it's unsustainable-- but bitcoin is perfectly sustainable, it's simply an asset that happens to be appreciating.

What is it when you buy an asset whose demand is going up and you think it's going to appreciate?

Investing.

At worst you could call it "speculating" but speculation is just a word for "high risk investments" and risk is in the eye of the beholder.
You're partially right. But "wasted" compute cycles refers to time that your CPU sits idle. I think the argument here is about energy usage. So sitting idle is not the same as running other people's computations.
Yeah, there's a big list of global differences around "what technology was around when these systems started getting built." Results in a weird mix of things looking both more and less futuristic than wherever home is in certain places; for me this was most striking when visiting Japan a while back and seeing how automated with vending machines and such a lot of ramen shops were compared to the US, but at the same time how cash-based they still were - the vending machines were very clearly very mechanical, not networked or "smart" machines, that just processed paper money and nothing else.
Social justice warriors want universities to 'ban veterans'
I've never hit a bug merely because of using pipes. Is this a theoretical concern or can you give an example?
automated != autonomous, the assertion I replied to was that "airliners _are_ mostly autonomous" which is not true.

>If those checkpoints were automated

If there were unicorns...

>the plane could indeed fly and land on its own.

No, and its annoying that you're asserting things you clearly don't understand.

As I mention elsewhere, the only technology we currently have for precision instrument landings in zero weather visibility (the only 100% autoland) is the ILS CAT IIIc approach. The overwhelming majority of airports in the country do not have that infrastructure, nor do most airplanes.

I'm a pilot, you clearly aren't. There are numerous other factors here, but just the fact you can't land wherever you want, at most airports with most aircraft, is enough to prove your assertion false.
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Also very few people care how well formatted your html emails are. Give me plaintext anyday.
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> if you want to destroy, say, every enemy military base simultaneously, the number of conventional precision weapons needed for that would be cost prohibitive

For the U.S. and similarly wealthy militaries, the math doesn't seem to support that statement. You don't need to destroy every base, just enough to effectively eliminate the enemy's military capability. Let's say that's even 10,000 targets - that's not a lot of munitions for a war. At $2 million a pop - rounding up Wikipedia's price for a high-end cruise missile - that's $20 billion, a pittance in war. The Iraq War, not a major one, cost over $1 trillion AFAIK (up to the first pullout, that is; it's not over yet).

For poor countries, who lack international networks for targeting and communication in addition to the munitions and launch systems, I think the statement holds up. It's also cost-effective for another reason: 1 nuke aimed at Seoul or Tokyo or LA is enough to deter attackers in almost any situation.
20071130 version: netqmail 1.06

2007.
I do all my dev work on Linux; hacked it for ten years. I've used a bunch of different debians and red hat in the process (most recently a highly modified elementaryOS).

It took 40 minutes with Arch before I decided to give up. I do like their wiki though.
The unclassified answer: nukes.
"[...] People seem to hate email for the same reasons they once loved it. Email's underlying triumph, the quality that made it revolutionary, was that you could instantly deliver a written message to someone even if they weren't there to receive it. [...] Email is neutral, meaning that anyone can email anyone else with an email address. If you have a person's email address, your message will be delivered no matter who you are - whether the recipient is your oldest friend, your granddaughter, your boss's boss, or Beyoncé. The year the web was born, this flattening effect was astonishing. Anyone in an organization could communicate directly and immediately with anyone else, "regardless of rank" [...]"
- Adrienne LaFrance, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/what-...

I'd like to add one more very important aspect: you don't need to register with any or with yet another service, which will eventually fade into oblivion within a few years - or which will become so ignorant to privacy, like Facebook, that you end up deleting their apps and accounts.

Email is a set of protocol and thus it _will_ outlive any centalised, closed, walled garden.

(BTW this is what decentralisation people should understand: you need to build services using common protocols, not services which can be installed; mastodon is a bad example, activityfeeds or linked data are good ones)
By "monthly average" you mean "trailing 30 day simple moving average price" and by 10 month you mean "trailing 300 day simple moving average" right?

In this case ,this is assuming that when the market shifts from bull to bear you can see it with a 30 day average-- or put another way, it's assuming it moves at a certain speed.

When you claim that this "significantly outperforms" is that based on measurements of bitcoin or of some other assets?
It's an actual term to decribe an entire spectrum of augmented to virtual reality. It's an incredibly confusing term to brand a product that very clearly falls on a specific part of that spectrum.

People also fling critique at Magic Leap for the same problem, since it is very clearly an AR device.
Keep doing what you're doing and get case studies and testimonials from your clients to prove that you solved their problems. As others have said, clients want their problem solved, not someone to do xyz. Prove that you can solve problems and progressively apply for bigger gigs until you're in a position where you need to put someone on to help you complete the project. If you do great work and progressively take on bigger challenges then eventually an agency will fall into place.
Information theory and probability are basically the same thing.
That is only one important aspect. It's also provider-independent (as long as you own the domain, that is true) and is, by nature, decentralised. (Like really decentralised, even by redundancy provaded by MX record priority in DNS.)
Breakthrough therapy, huh?

Let's remember that the DEA head (John C. Lawn) in the 80's forced a Schedule I classification, ignoring the recommendation of two separate hearings, and a successful federal lawsuit to do so. This was at a time when MDMA was already in burgeoning, but successful, clinical use.
> there is support for augmented reality

Unfortunately this isn't the case. It's just pure VR.
So...Lotus Notes?
What's wrong with civilian control of the armed forces? Why should service secretaries have served?
And yet the clear winner in the PC market is Apple, an incumbent that always did both hardware and software.
Some other navies have separate career tracks for bridge and engineering officers. This allows officers who want to focus on driving ships more time to actually practice the skill before taking command.

http://gcaptain.com/separate-equal-look-officer-training-us-...
I'm one of the most paranoid people you're ever likely to meet. (People more paranoid than I am won't communicate online.) Printer stenography is just beyond the limit I set for myself to try to disbelieve, and yet, here it is.

(Meaning that I always assumed something like this was going on, because that's what I would do, but I try to disbelieve it so as to be able to act normal. I believe all phones are continually listening to and scanning their ambient environments, because that's what I would do. But probably not, right? Right?)

The thing that bothers me the most is that "normal" people refuse to engage with reality. I used to tell people some of the things e.g. that Snowden revealed, but I was always accused of wearing the tinfoil hat. From my point of view, normal people are hugely intellectually dishonest. Poor Ed Snowden had to throw his life away to try to get people to notice and think about what's happening, and typically all most people do is whine about their precious privacy (the ones that don't immediately stick their heads back into the sand that is.) Like privacy is something that still exists. It doesn't.

I better wrap it up here before I get the urge to talk about forbidden technologies like REDACTED, REDACTED, and REDACTED. I mean, there's a certain tension knowing about a REDACTED that can cure all diseases, but that cannot be popularized because it can also REDACTED without a trace. Could you imagine the chaos if something like that became public knowledge!?
That's exactly what I did. I'm doing it on poloniex, but I'm pretty sure you could do the same for bittrex too. However, they are a bit limiting on the kind of orders you can make (I believe it's limit orders only). Poloniex has fill or kill orders, which makes some things easier to handle.

https://github.com/charlespwd/crypto-trader
> I bet the micromorts computed here are based on "all" accidents, not on accidental vs reckless deaths.

That is definitely true. These figures are dividing all deaths annually by number of participants. We are in murky water just by talking about risk rather than mortality rate. I'm guilty of doing that. We can't know the risk of a skydive per-se, we just know that 1/100k skydives in the past has ended in a death. We also know that the rate of deaths per skydive is going down over time, given the last 20 years of data.

> There is a hidden factor here that I don't think is being taken into account. Accidents vs Recklessness.

You're right on both counts. 1- some people take more risk than others in a given sport, and 2- that relative risk-taking within a sport is not taken into account in the mortality rates we have at hand.

Recklessness is a subjective, touchy-feely concept though. It's opinion and not something we can measure, so we will never be able to take it into account. We also don't know whether people within one sport are any more "reckless" than in another. Reckless behavior might be correlated with overall risk, or it might be heavily influenced by training and regulation and community.

Most deaths aren't due to crossing the line of any specific safety procedure. It's not recommended to hook turn, but it's also not a rule or law. A lot of people choose to do it for the extra thrill, and know that it's riskier than a straight upwind landing. All reckless deaths are also accidents. The line just might be too hard to draw.

Many people do call choosing to participate in a risky sport "reckless". Proximity wingsuit flying seems reckless to me, it's an activity that is very prone to deadly accident. You can certainly play it safer than some other people, but by choosing to participate you're accepting a level of risk that is unacceptable to some other people. I also acknowledge individual choice in this regard. It's okay to accept a higher level of risk than someone else.

The main thing that's probably bad to do is to rationalize a choice by thinking it's less risky than it really is. If you calculate your risk wrong, then you can't make an informed choice, which leads to unintentionally reckless decisions.

The other thing not being considered in this thread is injury rate vs fatality rate. I think it's pretty reasonable to weigh fatality much more heavily than recoverable injury, but I will openly admit that the big picture has a lot more gray area than the black/white numbers on fatalities per year.
Part of the RFC is the intent to use these to create iterators, so yes I believe that kind of usage would be covered.
Messaging apps like WeChat and Slack are really too ephemeral for discussion and documentation of serious business matters, in my experience.
IRC is centralised. You can't send message from server X to server Y.

XMPP and Matrix can.
What a vile person.

From the reddit post it is good to see that 99 percent of the community will not tolerate such disgusting behavior.
This is terrifying in light of watching simulated WW3 this morning this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbB0srzLuuo
Plug for David Marquet's book "Turn the Ship Around" about his time improving training / operations on a submarine he commanded. Every one had to announce their intention to do an action before actually doing it, this gave others the chance to identify when someone was going to take an incorrect action before it happened.

It's a really great, short read that I'd highly recommend and gives some more background into the operational issues with the Navy.
If they do read it, it's massive.
I hope you don't think millions will actually read newsletters.
School-funding and even whether a school closes or not is tied to these tests, so there would be some work involved in replacing that aspect of standardized testing in US schools as well.
Since when does augmented reality only annotate the world? This seems to be a meme spread by Google Glass, which wasn't even augmented reality since it didn't use reality in any way.
This is an interesting alternative to having a newspaper website: a newspaper via email.

Not the first, I'm sure, but possibly the best organised.
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Looking at this issue more broadly, I definitely agree that non-IT industries need to take into account Agile methodology to improve their results.

I've been looking for the reason why IT has come up with Agile before anyone else (I don't consider Lean Industrial Management as Agile whatsoever) and I simply think it's because the first industry with so much information in it (it's in the title even...).

Now that other industries have to orchestrate huge processes with huge amounts of information, I hope they'll take into account what IT brought up to solve this issue instead of taking the "IBM route" further (more policies, more guidelines, more bureaucracy).
>I realize you were joking but "get of my lawn" is normally something that the rich say to the poor.

No it's not. A lawn is a very middle-class thing in the US. It is stereotypically an older person that spends a bunch of time keeping their lawn pristine since they have no small children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_kids_get_off_my_lawn!
Whatever, fuck it.

There are more important things during a storm than trying to argue with a knowitall Hackernews.
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10,000 conventional targets doesn't seem anywhere close to enough to destroy the military capacity of a superpower.

Look at the US's cruise missile attack on that Syrian airbase a few months back. That was something like 50 missiles and the base was back in service in a day.
An officer's schedule can be worse.
Sad news, indeed.

The cause of death is only mentioned in the headline. In fact, the article says:

> It’s not clear exactly what happened to Blackman, who just opened a new Portland office for AWS Elemental last week and was planning business trips for the next few weeks, according to emails we exchanged at the end of last week. Blackman’s family is asking the company and investors to refrain from commenting publicly, but GeekWire confirmed the sad news with a person familiar with Blackman and AWS Elemental.
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It's probably more accurate to say that the ME can communicate with the 3G card if there is one installed.
I'm a business executive making six figures ;)

Still not sure I'd pay for it out of pocket (but who knows!), but I missed the B2B angle on the first read and was reacting to the price point as a news consumer. IMO neither the article nor the premium page does a great job of showing me that kind of value -- the only allusions to B2B value I saw were "research reports" in the article and "let us be your research team" on the page. But I suppose that's because you're still figuring out what premium should be.

Hope you figure it out and wishing you success here. I love me some email.
Ask HN: Programming to law – has anybody here done this?
Ask HN: Programming to law - anyone here done this?

For the past two years I've felt disillusioned with my career as a web developer. I don't feel challenged and am rarely in "flow". I also find many aspects of programming rather frustrating - this didn't matter when I still got a thrill from building things, but with that no longer the case it has rather begun to grate.

I'm not that natural a programmer and I don't really want to learn about computer science. My degree was much more verbal (English literature) and I'd like a career that's more about researching, writing and explaining ideas.

I came into IT as a technical writer, but it didn't satisfy the right parts of my brain. My original aspiration was to go into academia, but I have been put off by the conditions in that field. The history of literature is still a great love - but as a hobby, not a career.

I am thinking about retraining in law. This looks promising in a few ways: the work looks intellectually stimulating; some of it feels socially relevant; it involves all that reading, writing and research I mention; it involves explaining complex ideas to laypeople and it's very "verbal".

I have a... less honorable reason too. Put bluntly, feel like web development, particularly front end, is quite a low status job. I thought I didn't care - now I'm watching my university friends' careers take off, and I want to do something more impressive. I do try and disregard this reason - but it has always been there.

I am inspired to study law in part by some work I did a year ago, trying to prove whether or not a piece of tech breached EU privacy regulations. I got myself quite involved in the weeds of exactly what the laws were and I found it the most interesting piece of work I've probably done in about two years.

So, what I want to know is this: are there any lawyers here, anyone who has worked both in law and technology, who can tell me how the experiences have compared? What skills I can transfer and what skills I need to learn anew?
Whatever else you think of Bannon, he was, and is staunchly anti-war.

I'm not sure you can say that about any of Trumos current advisers.
Calculus essentially discusses how things change smoothly and it has a very nice mechanism for talking about smooth changes algebraically.

A system which is at an optimum will, at that exact point, be no longer increasing or decreasing: a metal sheet balanced at the peak of a hill rests flat.

Many problems in ML are optimization problems: given some set of constraints, what choices of unknown parameters minimizes error? This can be very hard (NP-hard) in general, but if you design your situation to be "smooth" then you can use calculus and its very nice set of algebraic solutions.

You also need multivariate calculus because typically while you're only trying to minimize "error", you do so by changing many, many parameters at once. This means that you've got to talk about smooth changes in a high-dimensional space.

--

The other side of calculus is integration which talks about "measuring" how big things are. Most of probability is discussing very generalized ratios: of the total, "how big is this piece" is analogous to "what are the odds this will happen".

The general discussion of measure is complex and essentially the only tool to tackle it involves gigantic (infinite, really) sums of small, well-behaved pieces to form a complex whole.

It just happens to turn out (and this is the big secret of calculus) that this machinery (integration) is dual to the study of smooth changes and you can knock them both out together.

--

So ultimately, ML hinges upon being able to measure things (integration) and talk about how they change (derivation). Those two happen to be the same concept in a way and they are essentially what you study in calculus.
Is there any way an amateur can verify claims of a missile being fired? Does it appear on radar at all?
Thinking one of the flight tracking sites.

In today's world I'm skeptical to say the least.
Yea, the 80s were full of crazy people in government and everywhere. I remember when D&D was honestly considered being a gateway to satanism / Devil worship, and not in jest. And not a short two week news cycle thing, but it went on for years. Oh, and heavy metal too. It all finally started to wind down when the televangelists were exposed as money grubbing perverts.

Paradise Lost took place in that era. If you haven't seen the movies, they're disturbing but good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three

You millennials think you have it bad, the boomers were absolutely batshit crazy to GenXers (we were also considered lazy BTW).
Taking lots of energy is literally the point of proof-of-work. Criticizing Bitcoin mining for using lots of energy is like criticizing DNA evidence for being hard to fake.
I think we're talking about the same things. I'm just trying to make the case for how we should make renewables cheaper. The existing non-renewable oil & gas norm historically depended upon heavy investments in infrastructure:

1. Interstate expressway system

2. Oil and gas pipelines

3. Fracking R&D

3. Direct tax subsidization of private refining and exploration.

We need that level of effort applied to renewables development.
I built Bx - it's a fair bit more than just time tracking, but it covers time tracking nicely. Try it out at https://usebx.com
There are already "Result" colored and "Future" colored functions right now. Async/await just adds syntactical sugar.
Yes, exactly. We plan to add support for various Kafka connectors to KSQL so you can ingest/export streams from external systems, like database, and then do stream processing all using KSQL queries.

The purpose is to bring Streaming ETL and Stream Processing together to make the user's life easy.