skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is a horrible argument. It always bothered me that my employers could ask a lot of money per hour to their clients and I would only receive a very small part, even though I did most of the work.

So in the end I decided to become freelancer. I can ask much higher rates and now I feel I get a fair compensation for my work (perhaps 2x or 3x my previous wage). And apparantly my clients believe so as well.
I think he means something like the difficulties shown by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function . There are a lot of conditions a function must satisfy to be differentiable.
If they did a token sale and already have $77M from it in the bank... there will be very little need for a moat. Many of these teams are out to get a quick buck with little accountability.
Random thought from someone with little theoretical experience with TLS. What would be offloaded to hardware? And would that not create a possible security/backdoor issue if there's no access to see how this is implemented by the hardware? I'm sure we offload things like this to hardware already with other technologies. Like I said, random thought.
> until there's a persistent, transferable, abstracted model [...]

It can be compressed to "until AIs can talk".
One of my pet peeves is linking to 'master' in git repos.

This link has a higher chance than usual to link-rot because it's intentional that the repo can change its structure over time.
Even if it doesn't change its structure, it's likely the file will change over time, so discussion here referencing line numbers or paragraphs or whatever will become wrong.

Repos shouldn't have to worry about people linking to them either (as e.g. a reason to not move files around willy-nilly)

Since by (rather strong) convention tags are immutable, you can link to a tag instead.

In this case: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.13/Documentation/n...

That link is also better because it explicitly shows the version of the repo that is being referenced as well.

Even if there isn't a suitable tag, I'd much prefer a link to the commit hash than any branch, which is expected to move.
Healthcare is complicated and expensive. This startup comes out with an app, a fingerprint scanner, and some compelling images, and now people are willing to hand over their money to some brand new company claiming they will bring universal healthcare to the masses.

Rather than develop a long-term set of healthcare provider alternatives, they're depending on selling a story and getting funding from people sensitive to heart-warming stories on the internet to "change the world". If any link in their public relations chain is broken, there goes the project.

I really like the idea. But copying a Sally Struthers late-80s TV commercial probably isn't going to solve healthcare.
Certainly integration of trigonometric functions, requiring trigonometric identities, seem to get more time allotted to them than the pedagogical value they provide AFAICS, but I'd be interested to hear someone pointing out what I'm missing there.
I TA'd for an undergrad ODE course for two semesters. I'm a grad student at a public university with very good undergrad engineering students. Nonetheless, with the course I taught, at least, the main problem was that WAY too much was packed into a single semester. I suspect that this is the same everywhere. For example, about a month and a half of the course was devoted to systems of linear equations. These were students who, a priori, knew basically no linear algebra, being asked to understand an entire linear algebra course, with some extra stuff thrown in (you know, the differential equations), in six weeks. In order to solve a general system of constant coefficient linear odes, you have to take a matrix and compute its Jordan canonical form. The students I taught were performing this calculation by the end of the unit, but it was of course a joke. On their exam, they were asked to do this calculation (in differential equations language), and most of them were able to do it because they were good students and had memorized the procedure. Then, in another question, they were presented a 5x5 matrix, told that its only eigenvalues were 2 and -2, and asked if it was invertable. I don't think anyone gave a reasonable answer.

What is the point of that?

Edit: Everyone should be aware of this amazing Gian-Carlo Rota quote, the entirety of a book review on contemporary philosophers: "When pygmies cast such long shadows, it must be very late in the day."
To a great degree, "modern web standards" are an exercise in reinventing proprietary Microsoft stuff from the 1990s.

(Or replacing some thing that Java or Flash had done for years.)
That's a slight chicken/egg problem. Most websites don't have like buttons with counters, so most people probably aren't going to use it as a signal anyways. If you do have a high amount of likes there may be some benefit to using it, but how are you going about getting those likes without the button there in the first place?
Are drivers a significant cost to running a train? Just like when optimizing code, you have to profile first and go for the low hanging fruit. I'd be willing to bet that the rolling stock and infrastructure are where the low hanging fruit is.
Simple Googling revealed this:

https://github.com/pieter/YoutubeDL-iOS

Anyone can sideload without mercy of Apple, uses infamous youtube-dl. Might try later tonight.

Would love author to open source his code or contribute to above mentioned project.
A lot of people who get seduced to work in startupville should heed this guy. The cost is not only the difference in pay for the years you are working in startups but the fact that career progression inside a bigcorp is forgone (and that itself is worth a lot)
Yep. It was amazingly smooth. I remember seeing Photoshop running, and crashing, without bringing the whole OS, which at the time was amazing.
Makes zero difference to any visitor what that number is.

The overall number may have no value (although social capital theory would suggest otherwise), but when a user looks at a Facebook page and sees "5 of your friends Liked this page" with a list of who they are, that has a huge impact on how they think. It's like having a personal recommendation. That's worth a lot. Likes do have value.
Except that those aren't the proper capitalizations of those companies/products. NeXT Computer's would've been capitalized that way. "macOS" is actually the spelling in Apple's trademark for their OS, after the rebranding (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:yup...).

Part of the branding is the contrast against standard capitalization conventions in English.
Their new CTO did an AMA on reddit recently. https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeternity/comments/6vxiei/ama_sessi...

The relevant parts:

> There are no zero days. And we are not using any of Zack’s code in the new repo. Take a look at our Github. Zack’s leaving has zero effect on our technology and we are not using any of his code.

> We have been working alongside Zack for quite some time now and understand the code. We felt that this is the right time to dump some accumulated and unwanted technical baggage. We are starting with a clean source code repository and will be bringing in pieces of code from the old repo as needed.
In Germany the fines for parking where you aren't allowed to park are something like 10 €, probably much lower than the European average.
IBM once decided to build a personal computer. They still need programming tools and an operating system so they went to a well known microcomputer language developer. Before they would disclose the project, they gave the young CEO IBM's standard 100 page super scary NDA.

He signed it without reading it because he really wanted his company to get IBMs business if they were to make a microcomputer. And it worked, they agreed to buy his languages for their PC, and asked for a referral to someone who could sell them an operating system. He personally referred them to the leading microcomputer OS maker, but could not disclose what IBM wanted to the OS maker. The IBM managers flew to meet with the OS company, but CEO could not make the meeting. His wife and lawyer did, and they actually read the NDA, and it horrified them. They spent all day wrangling over edits to it until the IBM guys left in a huff, without disclosing anything or conducting any business.

The lead IBM guy called the language company CEO and told them what had happened. The language company CEO told him not to worry, he could get them an operating system too. And he did, and he eventually became the wealthiest man in the world, all because he didn't read an NDA before signing it.

The moral of the story is that you can always be sued, regardless of the agreement. But most every customer doesn't want to sue, they want to succeed. If you get good customers, they will work with you so you both succeed.
It might, it's also in the paper linked in the commit message: https://netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/ktls.pdf
When I visited California I was so shocked by how many people lived in the streets that I asked several people about it and have been told this story:

http://www.povertyinsights.org/2013/10/14/did-reagans-crazy-...

If this is true, don't you think it makes it a national problem?
Reduction of entropy. Which seems quite the opposite of growth. However effectively, say energy per volume, it allows for growth.
>>brand new company

Watsi has been around since 2011.

>>Healthcare is complicated and expensive

Overall? Yes. Compartmentalized and decentralized, it does not have to be. That's the whole point of these types of initiatives.
Yeah, structure is an issue and I agree that there is no good common way to go about it. We're all pretty much winging it. You make tools and add features as you need them and no matter how you approach it you end up with a Rube Goldberg kind of machine.

Before I wrote code I built custom cars and the process is really much the same. You know what you want but there is no book of directions on how to make it and nothing else out there is quite like it so you just start making it and keep working on it until it's done.

Every app is essentially hand built and every builder does it a little differently. It's pretty much impossible to structure that process because that limits the potential to build something new and different.

What has gotten a lot better over the years is the off the shelf parts we can bolt together and get started with. It amazes me how much code I depend on to make an app and how many features it provides.

That's really the fun part of it.
Ask HN: Machine learning for boolean functions?
The machine learning tools I know work very well for continuous classification problems. I am wondering if there are any algorithms to learn arbitrary boolean functions from a training set. Basically this is a binary classification problem where the input consists of boolean values. How would you approach this problem?
why should they care? books entertain children. whether they are based on the latest scientific theories or not shouldn't prevent authors from writing more books and entertaining more children
I have enough faith in the American people that we would never permit the end of freedom of movement. For one thing, it would take a Constitutional amendment to legalize internal border controls. For another, geographical mobility has been core to American identity since the earliest days of the country. You're talking about locking the Okies in the Dust Bowl. Locking the autoworkers in Detroit even after the auto industry dried up. Preventing the Great Migration of Southern blacks to the more hospitable Northern states. Deepening inequality by locking in the regional disparities that perpetuate it.

This is insane, dystopic (literally, geographically-based caste systems feature in dystopian fiction with some regularity, for example the Hunger Games and Elysium), un-Constitutional, and un-American.

If internal border controls ever became law, I'd be the first to sign up for the resistance in the resultant civil war.
All this talk of HTCs reminds me of HTAs: HTML Applications.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250409(v=vs.85).a...

They behaved like a native app, with control over their native chrome, and without any browser sandboxing: their JavaScript (JScript) or VBScript could use COM components to access to the file-system and other features, including loading other binaries in-process. File-system access was through Scripting.FileSystemObject, for example.

Some built-in Windows components were/are built as HTAs, like the previous versions of the Microsoft AntiMalware / Windows Defender UI.

I tried to use it for a project in 2013 but couldn't because HTAs are forced to run in Quirks-mode, so you can't use IE11's Edge mode, unfortunately.

Best of all: they ran while needing only a few megabytes of RAM. Compare with Electron-based apps and it makes me weep because this, right here, is evidence that a Web-View can be used as the basis for an application, using a platform that was available since 1998/1999, without it dragging my PC down.
If his mental state of enthusiasm for working in this field is not completely wrecked by this occurrence... Your github is inspiring work Zack - I've ran across it several times in the past - I hope you get paid reasonably somehow or whatever you need to be happy.
>>But there are at least a couple problems. First, many Americans are apparently convinced that some other issue is central in American politics. Maybe it's threats from foreigners. Or from Satan, or some proxy of his. Or perhaps, it's losing their guns. Or whatever.

This is very much by design. The state and controlling money interests are happy if people are complaining about guns, weed, LGBT rights, neo-Nazi marches, and so forth as long as the complaining does not involve economic insecurity and/or civil liberties.
threatening to sell exploits on the black market is a terrible way to fight back

My guess is that this is a clever way of destroying confidence in the coin and subverting the organization. He need not exploit the vulnerabilities; hell, they need not even exist. If he was really going to sell 0-days, it's not in his interest to announce it.

As someone who once had the experience of being forced out of an organization by someone who thought software teams could be swapped out like the janitorial staff, I love this. It won't make you rich, but sometimes it's nice to just watch something burn.
Why is YCR so short-sighted? Isn't this a clear win for everyone involved and good press for Y-Combinator to begin with to keep EleVR alive and funded?
"So, everyone spends money, no limits on it". Not true, there are limits (e.g. in the form of leverage ratio caps) and not everything borrowed is immediately injected back into the economy (that might bump inflation too much).

Imagine if banks couldn't 'print their own money', then businesses would depend on people investing to get funding and demand far outstrips supply. So we'd have economic contractions on a massive scale.
By growth, I meant increase in wages to at least keep up with inflation. Janitorial jobs haven't kept up with inflation. Nowadays, rent increases by about 10% YoY. But wages don't increase by that much.
>>So in the end I decided to become freelancer. I can ask much higher rates and now I feel I get a fair compensation for my work (perhaps 2x or 3x my previous wage). And apparantly my clients believe so as well.

That's fine. I'm an entrepreneur as well and I make my own rules.

But there are a lot of people who just want to cash a check and do the work put in front of them. I employ a lot of them. And they're great. They have no aspirations to strike out, to deal with healthcare as a freelancer (have you tried being a father of two with kids or a spouse with chronic medical issues?), to deal with financial windfalls and insecurities, and so forth.
I think the API actually does matter a lot.

I think jQuery's massive success was precisely because it was a simple and concise API on top of the verbose and confusing DOM API.
So, we'll have bots sucking up bandwidth for nothing in this scenario?

How about a bot that just hangs up on them?
I'm jealous and horrified.
State-sponsored universal coverage: "that's for commies! Not acceptable!"

Silicon Valley VC-based universal coverage sponsored with crowdfunding: "wooooho that's super great! I love technology"

I would laugh if It wasn't for the milions not being able to afford basic healthcare.
That question doesn't capture the full picture. A high school dropout who arrived in SF w/$250 dollars and lived in a SRO for a year could qualify as becoming homeless while living in SF. I'm looking for more recent numbers, but in the past the number of homeless in SF that had been there more than 5 years was ~33%. For a variety of reasons, SF attracts people living on the margin, and prone to fall into homelessness.

A couple numbers for context - only 65% of San Franciscans were even born in the US, and only 37% were born in California, so there is a huge flow of people into the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco
Why Can't San Francisco Stop Its Epidemic of Window Smashing?
>>I think the argument goes: We make table scraps compared to the amount that a corporation rakes in. Yet we're the sole reason they're able to rake in that amount of money.

I know you don't agree with it, so I'm not ascribing this to you, but of the set of people who believe that, then why are so many startups failing left and right and laying off workers because their products don't hit critical mass? Millions of dollars paid out to the workers who churned out a failed product. Their downside is being out of a job. The entrepreneur's downside can be and often is much larger.
It does if you subscribe to the tracker list.
I think most people would consider HTML and CSS "code", too. Why would you not count HTML if it's in its own file, but assuming you would count it if it was JSX returned from a React component?
Also pretty popular in the PHP world. Judging by the number of PHP installs on the list I'd say a lot of people are using it for development.
Personally, I opted to download it manually since I prefer it over curl for some things.
The following is an excerpt from [0].

Around the same time, the Court ruled, in O’Connor v. Donaldson, that a Florida man named Kenneth Donaldson had been kept against his will in a state psychiatric hospital for nearly fifteen years. The ruling added momentum to a nationwide campaign to “deinstitutionalize” the mentally ill. Activists decried the existence of mental hospitals that were filled, as one account put it, with “naked humans herded like cattle.” During the next two decades, states across the country shut down such facilities, both to save money and to appease advocates pushing for reform. But instead of funding more humane modes of treatment—such as community mental-health centers that could help patients live independently—many states left the mentally ill to their own devices. Often, highly unstable people ended up on the streets, abusing drugs and committing crimes, which led them into the prison system.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/the-torturing-o...
I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Most places that offer food or financial assistance do so in a manner that is detrimental to those receiving it, specifically due to sentiments like yours. Those in power with similar political mindsets as you purposely neuter the usefulness of these programs, making them difficult to obtain and then taking them away for arbitrary reasons at the most inconvenient of times, setting back those relying on them, probably while they're trying to become financially stabilized.
I'm not proposing anything. Just suggesting that there are more factors than income that affect 'inequality'.

An article that focusses on inequality due to low income should perhaps pick an example with a more typical family situation.
Why are planes called wings? And while the propeller or turbine is largely missing from birds, it contains many wings as well. I'm not convinced.
That's at least assault if not battery. Assault is the threat of physical violence, and battery is the actual physical act. It sounds like the owner has physically assaulted him. Either way, it's a felony. That's totally unacceptable.
> Compartmentalized and decentralized, it does not have to be.

Being compartmentalized and decentralized is what the story claims is inefficient and expensive.
> Sun was already on the way down by the time I left many years ago, but what had happened since Oracle bought them has been nothing but depressing.

I wonder what this means for their big iron, such as SuperClusters? Those still run Solaris.
Probably because technically HTML isn’t so much code as it is a markup language
That's not how licensing rights work. Just because you think it is the same, doesn't mean that lawyers will think that.
Would you be in tears, though? :D

https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hoid
Wheels are way more basic. Anything will skid and slide on a spread of rubble, doesn't even need to be animated.
Well, there is that instant search feature that starts showing results once you start typing.
Management for first time?
> We can use complex numbers to describe a 2-dimensional number-space with a single digit. How do we describe a 3-dimensional number-space with a single digit? What about higher dimensional number-space?

The complex numbers equips the vector space of 2-dimensional real numbers with a multiplication. This structure is known as an algebra.

The analogue for 4 dimensions is the Quaternion Algebra, which is no longer commutative (i.e. a * b != b * a). The elements of unit length correspond (essentially) to rotations in 3 dimensions and they are used for this in e.g. computer graphics.

The analogue for 8 dimensions is the Octonions which are no longer associative (i.e. (a * b) * c != a * (b * c)). The construction can be continued with a doubling of the dimension through the Cayley-Dickson construction, however these higher dimensional versions are even worse.

It is not possible to associate a multiplication to 3-dimensional real space which makes it an algebra. This fact is related to the classification of exceptional Lie groups. The reason is roughly that the units in an algebra form a group, but the 2-sphere is not a Lie group.
So I ran both. I still do not feel that OSX is anywhere as fast and responsive as BeOS. Check out the latest Haiku build. Still so much more responsive.
So this is a project to create the "Maxwell equations of Quantum Physics"?
For the first time, N Korea openly threatens to use EMP, which changes the game
Who the hell uses homebrew to install Perl? OS X ships with it, and perlbrew is a much more natural way to install it if you care about not using the system Perl. Maybe it's a dep for another package?
I always end up using my old standby GraphicConverter (been using it since 1996...) for that kind of stuff since with imagemagick there always seems to be some kind of voodoo you have to invoke once you have a PNG alpha channel, images with EXIF rotation tags, PDF files, color profiles, etc.
Why hasn't the open source community figured this out? Seems like a bad idea to ever distribute source code at below the cost of liability insurance. Or should we be geo-restricting open source software? "Sorry, Linux is not available in your state."

Thanks for pointing this out. I imagine most people who publish open source software aren't aware of this risk, and will stop when they learn about it.
From what I've gathered from some people working in the blockchain community, some of the altcoins that are geared towards being a ponzi schemes have investors with Russian oligarch/mafia or similarly shady backgrounds. I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't completely contained to the obious scams.
FYI there is a cure for HepC nowadays that actually works, if it did not cost >10k we could probably get rid of HepC for good.
Relatedly, a similar technique is used to assess the quality of random number generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_test