skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely comment here anymore, but I wanted to break that tradition to say thank-you. I have been routinely frustrated—or more honestly, just annoyed—at Voynich attempts for exactly the reasons you highlight. I have no idea if this is correct, but it's the only serious modern attempt I've seen, and I genuinely really appreciated this.
In PoW, you are trusting the miners.
It's likely being down-voted because it is brought up in the context of black Americans. In this context a quite frustrating argument familiar to black Americans often follows:

"If the Jews are okay, then how come you couldn't figure it out? HMMMMMM? That's what I thought." is heard often when bringing up the American Jewish within the context of this discussion. While I don't agree with down-voting a comment that smells similar to something toxic (I doubt the grand-parent intended this interpretation). The highly negative reaction is likely due to the frequency with which this argument is brought up, and its lack of any validity.

Comparing the American Jewish to African-Americans is an apples-to-oranges comparison. The time spans for the comparison are horribly different - When were Jews recently generationally slaved for centuries?

The thing that really annoys me about this comparison between Jews and African Americans is "because of their strong values of hard work, family, and creativity". In my opinion these values of Jewish Americans are obtained through the tightly ingrained religious and familial structures. Unlike the Jewish, however, African-Americans' culture was systematically annihilated when they were enslaved. There are few traces of African religions and customs that remained after slavery. Any shared values were destroyed by such an event. You can similarly say that the massive amounts of black males that have since been imprisoned for minor drug crimes in the U.S. has had a similar effect on the familial unit.

The plights of Jewish and Black Americans in the U.S. have been very different. This is likely why people reacted poorly to the subject being brought up.
I think you probably mean "meme : culture :: atom : physics" (i.e. memes have the same relationship with culture that atoms do with physics).
FP and OOP are compatible styles. In fact, I would argue that FP is more object orientated than procedural code such as loops.
Other than jump to exit stuff?
If I understand this right, I don't think I necessarily disagree with you. My question is: if people can choose one or the other to spend, what do you think they'll choose? A currency that inflates quickly, or one that inflates less quickly?
Would be cool with a story like, we did these adjustment so each server could handle 10% more requests. etc. This blog post seems to only cover software, you can also gain a lot of performance from hardware modding. Someone said optimizing is the root of all evil ... So first identify bottlenecks in real work-loads, no micro-benchmarking!
Yea, but Stanford has better faculty, better access to startups, and many people value a more well rounded experience.
>Most of the ads focused on pumping politically divisive issues such as gun rights and immigration fears, as well as gay rights and racial discrimination.

When I read this I thought that this is what the US press does every single day wither it's WaPo or Limbaugh. It's all about selling fear and division. There's no longer nuance, no longer presenting both sides of an argument. It's all this is good or this is evil.
Private trade, yes. Free trade, not so much.

There is a reason why slavery was abolished on the brink of capitalism birth. It's because capitalism depends on free trade, not just any kind of it - the freer the better it grows.
I'm not the GP and I don't have a horse in this race, but AFAICT there's nothing in your comment that contradicts the parent's claim.

It seems like his interpretation accords entirely with what you're saying.
marriage has declined largely because women don't as often have to stay in shitty abusive marriages for financial reasons anymore. this is a good thing.
I'm almost 64. I will get my CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) certification soon. I am learning Python and taught myself Java at 52-54.

I can run circles around some of my younger associates in terms of critical thinking, design thinking, and integrative thinking. My job requires this and I do it whenever needed.
I did send the article to my old economics professor so he can tell me where I misunderstand things, but I haven't gotten a reply yet. ️
Can’t get in via the website, but iTunes Connect lets me log in, and my Apple ID is listed correctly. Granted, probably very different systems but I assume there’s some commonality. Doesn’t do much good if you need to add a team member, though.
Here's a practical example of why it's beneficial to not be Turing complete. In Dhall, you can normalize programs, even if they are functions. For example, the interpreter can automatically simplify this Dhall function:

let replicate = https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQ8w5PLcsNz56dMvRtq54vbuPe9cNnCCUXAQp6xLc6Ccx/Prelude/List/replicate

in let exclaim = λ(t : Text) → t ++ "!"

in λ(x : Text) → replicate +3 Text (exclaim x)

... to this one:

λ(x : Text) → [x ++ "!", x ++ "!", x ++ "!"]

... even though we haven't applied the function to any arguments yet. You can't perform this sort of simplification (in general) if the language is Turing-complete

This sort of automatic simplification comes in handy a lot when authoring configuration files. For example, if somebody objects to the import of the remote `replicate` function, you can just simplify the file and (voila!) all the imports are gone because they've all been inlined and reduced. Similarly, if somebody objects to excessive use of abstraction and functions you can similarly simplify them to remove all indirection
"Any moral dilemma can be rephrased as an evil maximization problem" -Zach Weinersmith
A sample translation is the key thing I wanted to read in this article, and all they gave was an illegible low-resolution snippet without an English translation -- very annoying.

As best as I can read, the purported Latin translation in the image at the top of the article says:

Folia de oz et en de aqua et de radicts de aromaticus ana 3 de seminis ana 2 et de radicis semenis ana 1 etium abonenticus confundo. Folia et cum folia et confundo etiam de eius decocole adigo aromaticus decocque de decoctio adigo aromaticus et confundo et de radicis seminis ana 3.

Feeding the above to Google Translate gives:

The leaves of Oz and added to the water and the aromatic radicts semen Ana ana 3 2 seed and the roots ana 1 etium abonenticus the mix. The leaves, when the leaves are decocole adigo and the mix of the aromatic decocque of the cooking adigo an aromatic mix of roots and seeds Ana 3.

Yes, I realize that the author's translation might be completely mistaken, but I'm curious to read what he thinks it says. If someone can make out the words better, please do so.
I've put my raw data on GitHub in case anyone wants to see what it looks like or make a PR. This is the V3 chip (V5 is the current), but the formats should be the same.

https://github.com/blopker/DNA
Another thing that might (no strong studies AFAIK so this this straight out of my behind) be a consequence of our increased phone use is myopia.

There is some evidence that myopia incidents(diagnoses?) have increased but I don't think there is proof that it is caused by our increased time spent looking at things close to us.

I also think it is harmful to have so much exposure especially because the most popular apps on smartphones are designed to grab our attention constantly and create this dependency on getting a notification.

Hopefully we see some great studies in the next 10-30 years that can properly map the effects the so-called "attention economy" has had on us
Serious question: why don't you fly out? I just checked on Google Flights and there are seats out of Miami today for <$200. Even adding ground transportation on each end it seems to me you could get out of Dodge for <1k including temporary housing at the end. You're a software engineer, surely you can afford that?

[UPDATE:] Just saw this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-irma-evacuation-jet...
I use FreeCAD and Blender for a lot of my technical design/engineering work. I am happy to see a physics solution in Blender that seems suited to the task of filling the volume with the parts.

I like the fact that you can use Hylang to program both Blender and FreeCAD via their Python APIs. No need to, I just like Lisp!
Well,the bloom filter only uses a tiny bit of space per data element and doesn't actually store the data. When searching the data itself, you're often searching through the actual data, which is more intensive and slow.
Sorry, I meant the test recordings, not the originals of my voice.
>Which is easy to measure

I think this might be formally incomputable...
Show HN: Automated Archiving of Heroku Postgres Backups to S3 Written in Go
Russia doesn't have free or fair elections anyway- how could the US possibly corrupt it any more than Putin cronies personally controlling almost all domestic Russian media?
Hi pevachon. I heard about this through the tech grapevine, also in Canada. Would you care to briefly discuss what you had to go through? I am skeptical towards most ICOs, but I think there is some room for innovation _if_ done properly. I would really love a chance to hear more about your experiences!
The USD isn't some gold standard of truth. Like any currency it also appreciates and depreciates over time. You can't just look at the exchange rate between two currencies and make any meaningfully claims. Definitely, you can't make any claims about Canadian inflation by just looking at the exchange rate. When we went up to 1.10 it didn't cause deflation and when we went down to the low .70s we didn't see inflation.
I don't find this line of argument compelling. It's a form of moral induction that specifically selects things that are still in play today (like chess) while ignoring valid warnings that altered a trend (vehicle safety) or halted a trend (smoking). Every moral or health threat needs to be evaluated on its own merits regardless of whether it has the syntax of a historical warning that ended up in hindsight seeming kind of absurd. This is exactly the kind of argument corporations exploring potent forms of addiction want trotted out.
Their open market operations affect short term bond yields which in turn affect long term bond yields. They clearly intervene and it's hard to imagine interest rates being as low as they have been without the intervention.

When they buy bonds, it pushes the yields lower, if things were where they were naturally the fed/ecb etc wouldn't have the sheer number of bonds they do on their balance sheet.
The strange thing is that the core claim (if true) creating an electronic messaging system in the early 70s while being 14 years old is an impressive feat on its own, not sure why if that is the case did he felt the need to do the mother of all CV paddings.
Here's another culture. C(not equal) is a culture that believes that all cultures are not equal. But those arguing that all cultures are equal are in fact arguing that their culture, C(equal), is better than C(not equal).

That is, by the act of making the argument, they refute the argument they are making.
Good GPS receivers allowed changes to datums. Furthermore, there is a transformation possible between ellipsoids if you have their exact parameters.

Source: I worked at Trimble.
Even better, just e and f collide.
Of course we are always free to dispute each other; Wax’s colleagues could certainly have written essays or a collective essay debating her claims and pointing out flaws in her reasoning, but when is it morally and professionally appropriate to issue a collective public condemnation of a colleague?

Whenever the signatories of such a communication agree upon the idea, surely? Political agency only exists to the degree that one is willing to exercise it.

I find it perplexing that conservatives on the one hand deplore restrictions on speech that seem to stifle the expression of conservative ideas and so forth, but then complain about improper forms of speech when they find their ideas rejected. If it's OK for Wax to co-author a lightweight op-ed that expresses support for bourgeois (capitalist) moral values and breezily dismisses the downsides thereof, why should her critics limit themselves to scholarly analysis but abstain from making moral arguments of their own? Why is it OK for Wax to claim that "things are likely to get worse for us all" thanks to "the academics, media, and Hollywood", but not OK for Wax's colleagues to say they consider her to be giant hypocrite?

I have gone to great lengths to show that Wax’s central claim about culture is probably correct because the necessity of protecting dissent is clearest when the dissenter brings an important and neglected truth into the conversation.

In reality, Haidt takes one aspect of Wax's claim (about the value of marriage), shows some bipartisan/broad-spectrum support for the idea that promoting marriage can have social benefits, and treats this like an empirical result. I don't think that comes anywhere close to validating Wax's broad claim that the hegemonic post-war culture is the best cure for today's social ills, or that its shortcomings are incidental rather than inherent, or that its desiderata of modest obedience and productivity are the acme of human experience.

It's fine with me if he agrees with Wax, but this doesn't give him the right to dictate the terms of discourse. If Wax can write a "provocative essay" why must her critics restrict themselves to the language of theoretical discourse?
I wouldn't have guessed the rates would be similar. That's interesting.
Yes, you're right to bring up confirmation times and community. I didn't include that on purpose in order to focus on the good vs bad money part. My hunch is the scaling issues will (eventually) get addressed when we hit the barriers. Might not even be Bitcoin.
While in one sense true, the Fortune article seems to be reading the word “television” (or perhaps “audio or audiovisual content”) into the phrase “cable, broadcast, or satellite” as a distribution mechanism when it is not, in fact, present where that phrase is used in FECA, as amended (FECA does have radio and TV-specific provisions, and they expressly name radio and TV, and they aren't the ones of interest here.) Absent case law to the contrary, which is not cited, it would seem by it's plain language to cover most real electronic media including the internet (advertising on a isolated RFC 1149 network would not be covered, of course, nor would ads in plenty of pre-telegraph “old media” like dead-tree-only newspapers.)
Mesosphere co-founder here.

You're correct in that GCP runs k8s in VMs, DC/OS doesn't. What's similar is that there's a resource manager underneath -
Borg for GCP, Mesos for DC/OS. They serve similar purposes like resource management, isolation, and operating the services on top.
From the article:

> In particular, I’ve been hanging out at social.coop, which I co-own with the other users of the instance.

Now, whether that's "own" like "founder" or "own" like "credit union member" is perhaps up for debate, but the opening paragraph leads with an endorsement for a competing service over which he has partial ownership, in his words.
You joke, but I'd be willing to bet that TP Would retain value in much the way it can in some prisons.,. Ditto with soap. If you don't believe me, see how desperate people get for it when they don't have it.
23andMe is pretty useful. It flagged my maximum-possible risk for Celiac, which after a few months weaving through the Canadian medical system was confirmed by diagnoses. Best $200 I ever spent. That said, the other data on ancestry and obvious things like my eye colour wasn't very useful. For more useful speculative genetics, try plugging your 23andMe data into this: https://promethease.com/
Show HN: SpeechPy - Speech Processing and Recognition Using Python
I abandoned Python 2 around April 2017 for greenfield.
Akubra: Keep a independent S3 storages in sync
It had a flash a few years ago when it changed names but overall does not seem to be going anywhere hype-wise.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
The article is not arguing that values shouldn't change, just that empirically the new values we have chosen (single parenthood, self segregation, etc.) are producing inferior outcomes to the old bourgeois values. There is no argument as to whether there are other superior values to adopt, etc. There must be other paths forward but the article doesn't go there.

You can in some instances enact major shifts in social systems without modifying its core values. Values and beliefs are two different things. For example giving women the right to vote was a major change, but didn't shift any of the classic core American values (to be trite, freedom, independence, etc.)
I don't have to explain why Lisp failed to take off. I just have to explain why C did, because network effects are more significant than language advantages. This is my central thesis.

I don't think awareness of Lisp was evenly distributed among people developing on PCs in the time period when the network advantage was obtained. Even if it was, if there were already a decent C compiler, I don't think most practical engineers would immediately embark on a compiler development project. During this era, those who did know about Lisp certainly would have regarded it as being too resource-intensive for work in a resource-constrained environment like the PC.

I think it's specious to say it's easy to develop a simple Lisp compiler, so why didn't anything get ported. The code you may have wanted to port would not have been written in some minimalist dialect of Lisp, it would have been written in ZetaLisp. So there would be assumptions about resources and the underlying system that you would have to fake. And again, we're talking about porting from a resource-rich environment to a resource-scarce environment.

It was probably a reach for me to say there wasn't anything to port. But what would someone have wanted to port? A graphical application that ran on a Lisp machine would have made assumptions about the display that aren't true about a PC. An academic AI program would have been too short on resources to be much use.

What wound up selling the PCs in the early days was business applications. Were there an assortment of useful business applications on Lisp machines that there was commercial demand for? WordStar and Visicalc invented that territory and were first released in the late 70s—does anyone remember programs for the Lisp machine that businesses were clamoring for? And really, software churn has always meant there are more new programs in use than old ones.

What I don't have an explanation for is why the C compilers produced better code than the Pascal compilers. Partly, I know p-code made it faster to build a Pascal compiler but I don't know why it inhibited development of more performant ones. Turbo Pascal's speed of compilation was a result of not having an AST, which probably inhibited performance optimizations, but that may have been too late in the story to explain anything. And I don't have an explanation for why nobody developed a Lisp-like language that had explicit allocation. My best guess would be simply that their attention was elsewhere, probably working on AI, which wouldn't bottom out until after the winners were already entrenched.

By the way, in case it isn't clear, I am really enjoying this conversation. I'm very interested in this window of time in computing and if I have a wrong idea about something, I do want to know. The only way to preserve this history is to talk about it and keep the memory alive.
Well, it seems to me intuitively obvious that cultures that value education prepare children better for their economic future than cultures that don't value education.

I may not be able to compute it. I may not even be able to measure it. But I think that anyone who disagrees is making a far less reasonable claim than I am making, and therefore has the burden of proof.
Thanks, can you elaborate on the libs available to "migrate your data around"? Does Mesosphere reschedule your DB to another node that has an equivalent persistent and reserved storage(SSD etc.) volume configured on it?

Are you using Portworx for this?
A lot of telemetry gathering done by websites is also executed on your desktop. I don't think it makes a different that it's written in JavaScript and not C++.
If I read this comment right, I agree with you. People will use inflationary currencies more because they aren't as good as a store of value.
Yes. The Hegemony did include anti-homosexuality, racial and gender discrimination that I'm glad we've gotten rid of. Part of the hegemonic core value set is that the norms and rules can be carefully changed over time.

Now, since the hegemony has adapted and added tolerance of homosexuality and disapproval of racial and gender discrimination, the Gramscians are reaching further and further into the discontented for supporters. What's really revitalized the cultural right is when the Gramscians tried to pull in Islamists and non-citizens (the least politically charged name I could come up with for this group) into the coalition of the disaffected. The contradictions in their ideology as a purported means for peaceful change of the existing system just got too huge and many people didn't understand the justification for the movement anymore in terms of a nationalist and progressivist basis. This is similar to how many people lost the plot on the justification for the Iraq war on a nationalist and progressivist basis.
The new package is here: http://universe.dcos.io/#/package/beta-hdfs/version/latest
Hello BBC: a pidgin is not a language . A pidgin language is a simplified bridge of two languages used by speakers of two different languages. In much the same way the people of hati do not speak "creole" they speak a creole or a mixture of two or more languages . As such since the people you claim speak "pidgin" in reality speak a "creole" of English and other languages. As the BBC you should be readily able to communicate the parts of language that matter; the way in which the words word .
Is Symantec getting ready to buy Splunk?
Is there? Does a black person from Brazil share a culture with a black person from Sweden or from Pakistan?
We discovered Merkel was spied on by the NSA. I believe she had her phone tapped. That was pretty big but it blew over.
This is clearly an aside from TFA, but what are you talking about? Europe has had mass immigration recently, not emigration.
We've standardised on Python and we're migrating all of our systems to Python / Django / Postgres from PHP / Drupal / WordPress / MySQL. We started out with one senior Dev on the Python stack, and simply found that the productivity on Python/Django just too compelling to stay on PHP. The (senior) Dev on Python had a couple of highly successful projects which resulted with him getting some junior Dev support. Then the other Devs started to notice and saw/felt that they were missing out on better and more advanced tooling. They then started to push to move their main environments to Python/Django. This has further been pushed by the business stakeholders who have seen the Python/Django projects move much faster than PHP projects.

So for us, that is now 6 Devs on Python/Django plus some consultancy support. So we've move from 2 python Devs to 6 Python devs within the last year.