skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is innovation bottleneck that is partly cultural and partly human resource constraint.

Advanced statistical techniques, data science and simulation resources available have increased the potential what is theoretically possible to discover and reason with, but it's hard to use them in full capacity.

We live in era where something like probabilistic programming has dramatically increased the complexity of models that can be used for reasoning, science is still struggling with the meaning of p-values and publishing the open data used for others. In many areas researchers cant use techniques that peer reviews are not very familiar with.

Scientific discoveries require increasing amount of resources and collaboration and methodological knowledge. Some biochemists spend 5 years developing computational package for Matlab and have to learn completely new fields atop of their PhD. The amount of combined knowledge and methodology to get totally new discovery and not just incremental advances stretches what small research groups can do on their own. You have to build whole frameworks from scratch.

Big money places like Cern have money and people to pull it off. They can employ 100 physicists to work 5 year for software package that analyzes some experiment and squeezes the science out of data.

TL:DR: method knowledge available >> method knowledge used.
I apologize, that's tunnel vision on my part from other comments XD

I don't really understand what contract there is to legally enforce. Say I send some bits to Big Vern's site. One day, the bits aren't there anymore. If it was a legally incorporated real bank, and my bits represented real dollars or Euros or etc, then I would be fuming pissed and would be suing.

But Big Vern did not run a site with any express guarantees, and I did not send him any legal tender. So we were effectively operating in a legal vacuum.

One time I left my car at a repair shop. All the cars they had in the lot were stolen. The police didn't arrest the shop owner for negligence. They just went and tried to find the thieves.
The effort to maintain copyright is strategic. Hollywood is less concerned about the latest technological fads (streaming, apps, etc.) than about the longer-term impact the Internet will have on their entire business model. They have no idea how to make money in a world where exact duplicates of movies can be made using tools everyone has in their pockets.

Basically, like the rest of the copyright industries, the entire business model depends on copying requiring specialized industrial equipment. The Internet is an existential threat to that model because it is "flat" -- nothing in the technical standards of the Internet divides IP addresses into producers and consumers (for comparison, look at the standards for the cable system). Combined with the fact that a PC can run the same software as an "industrial grade" server, Hollywood et al. are facing a situation they cannot apply their business model to: one in which there are no centralized distributors they can be forced to pay for the right to distribute something.

Giving up a bit of short-term profit for the sake of protecting the long-term prospects of the industry is not so surprising. What I am more concerned with is the fact that politicians have sided with these particular industries, even though they have happily watched other obsolete business models die in the face of new technologies. The copyright industries have managed to convince everyone that their business model is in some way sacred and have co-opted governments in their strategic efforts.
I guess you are talking about https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/
exchange fees, and a general dedication to cryptocurrency
For english. Do it reliably for many 27 languages, with many different fonts, and the results are useless.

Even Google’s OCR utility can’t reliably detect German Umlaute in fancy fonts.
Wal-Mart is pretty crap on produce and meat, but they’re good at shelf stable stuff like chocolate. The one near me has, as you say, half an aisle of chocolate product of all kinds.
Yes, maybe Uber loses money on each ride, but they make it up on the volume?
I've seen some you could argue are a pump and dump, an actual Ponzi Scheme on a blockchain would be nearly impossible, it relies on a central ledger so the bad actor can disproportionately transfer the new investors' assets to old.

There's been a recent example of someone running a Ponzi using BTC, but that's not an example of a currency being a Ponzi, which is a thing more specific than "scam."
My wife & I are crowdsourcing memorial benches across the world

https://openbenches.org/

Only been working on it for a few weekends, already have 2,300 listed on there. Would be great to get some more from the USA & Canada though. So if you spot any, please take a photo and upload :-)

All the code is open source and the photos are CC-BY-SA.
No doubt they were expecting meaningful economic growth. They got it.

Their economy has increased in size by roughly five fold since they switched to Capitalism, with zero population growth. They've gone from a GDP per capita of sub $2,000 to nearly $10,000 in that time. And it appears likely set to continue growing nicely in the coming decade. I'd be willing to bet that in another ~15 years they'll get to near $20,000 per capita, generally something closer to where Slovenia, Slovakia and Czech are today.
Yes the number of coins that produce nothing is large, but the top coins account for like 90% of the market cap. The pump and dump game is overstated
Apps purchased from the official Google Play store can only officially be installed through having the phone itself connect to the internet. You can buy the app from the web site and tell it to queue an installation to a device, but officially the device itself must be connected to install or update apps.

Android does support unofficial app distribution as well though. If someone gives you a .apk of their app you can just copy it to the phone and select it from the file browser to install it. You can update apps installed from the Play Store in this way as well, just the first install needs to be done the official way to get the license loaded.

Music is just files, you can copy them on and off the device in basically the same way as an old MP3 player unless you bought from a DRM-based provider in which case they'll be "protected" somewhere else.

There's no real need for an iTunes-like setup with Android. Your PC has no need to be involved in the app installation process and everything else is just normal files you can manage with the file manager you already have.
https://macvendors.com was a side project from 5 years ago, gets $600-800/m in ad revenue now and the API serves up about 30-35 million request a month

https://sendfly.co just launched this last week. Still have to do some documentation and UI work to make it a bit more intuitive. It’s a contact form endpoint.
> That's OK, not everyone has to agree about a particular description.

Unless you are an expert, I suggest you follow the guidance of the people who have been studying the subject for almost a hundred years.
This tool is also great: https://github.com/greymd/tmux-xpanes
And what exactly do you think a 51% attack can do?
I'll tell you what: censor transactions and make double-spends.

Not exactly end of Bitcoin danger, is it?
It's not only Hungary that has yoghurt with flour in it, there are several brands in the US that bulk the product up with corn starch with the inevitable and negative effect on the taste and texture. When flying SAS from Norway/Denmark to Newark I will eat yoghurt on the way to the US but not on the way back because then they have been supplied with the US version. It's not that there is no good yoghurt in the US of course it's just that it seems to be allowed to put stuff in it that doesn't belong so some manufacturers do.
Creating sustainable digital token economies within open source communities
That's very interesting. I'll have to do a bit more critical reading on the subject, it seems even messier than I believed.

Again, thanks for sharing your unique and illuminating perspective.
I was in Miami after Hurricane Andrew. The traffic lights didn’t return for weeks. It was rather amazing.

For less busy intersections, people just treated them as 4 way stops.

For busier intersections, say a 3 lane road with a 2 lane road crossing it, there was sometimes a police officer to direct traffic. But sometimes not, and that’s when it got interesting. What would often happen is that the different traffic directions would try to take turns. One direction would get momentum going until someone brave enough in the other direction would poke their car out. Eventually the one direction would stop and the other direction would start going.

But sometimes even that could not work. And this is when the volunteer traffic director would appear. Someone driving with a passenger would have their passenger get out and start directing traffic till their car got through and maybe for a couple more minutes. Then that person would go get back in their car and suddenly another volunteer would hop out of another car. Serial volunteer traffic directing is one of my enduring memories of Miami from that time.
Are we really, seriously, debating the success of a proven successful program?
but google will die under the mountain of lawsuits and justice for their various crooked enterprises, not to mention people are going to (again) get sick and tired of being spied on by f'ing corporations.

so that part of the headline is irrelevant.

Also SESTA is bad. booo SESTA.
Yeah, I’m not going out of my way anytime soon to design for the X.
It's easy to pick on Capitalism, but I'd rather have cheap but low quality food on my table than no food at all[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Roma...
I used to work for UK startup https://www.touchnote.com/ - which is a similar idea. I like how simple your interface is. And bot interaction is very hot right now. You should contact them to see if they're interested in it.
True! This could be important if you're running low. I've been curious - does doing something like parallel bzip2 cause more fragmentation than a serial approach, or are the file systems and drives pretty good at dealing with heavy parallel write?
Less? The idea that an entire industry with several large competitors in it is just too stupid to realize that giving away their products for next to nothing with no DRM would make them more money is the height of wishful thinking.

Or maybe they should just adopt the web business model, where you don’t trade money for products like civilized humans but trade your sanity and privacy for “free” services.
This is The Guardian quoting a reader, not The Guardian's original writing.
In my free time I've been exploring generative art. I got an AxiDraw V3 and it's been a lot of fun. I don't have a central place with all my work yet, but I just launched a newsletter: http://tinyletter.com/paulgb/letters/introduction-icymi-edit...
The Bladerf is very easy to use. Good documentation. Pre-built binaries for the firmware and PC side APIs. I've used the C API extensively on Windows. Unfortunately as with pretty much all SDRs, the RF performance is pretty bad (spurious/images/etc). IIRC it has some odd limitations on the anti-aliasing filter and was quite CPU hungry at higher tx rates. You're not going to find an SDR without quirks though.
Here in Groningen (the Netherlands) I'd say 90% of people wait at a traffic light. Thing is, here cycling isn't something done by risk-takers. We have 80 year-olds cycling to the grocery store. That leads to a whole different group mentality than looking at those willing to cycle in NYC.
Heck, I'd be hesitant to cycle in NYC.
As I understand it the SEC has begun to classify crypto-coins as an official asset class based on various criteria[0]. This means that while bitcoin and other alt-coins may not be a "Stock" they are being considered a "Security" under U.S. regulation and thus saying Big Vern commited securities fraud is not inconsistent with U.S. regulation.

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-security-equity...
OK, how do I buy the cans you've told me I want?

I'm on the page for "HIFIMAN Edition S" - I'd expect an Amazon affiliate link or something. Earn yourself some cash :-)
Ethereum-based tokens have grown to 85% of the total token market cap. Most if not all of the applications built around Ethereum's ERC20 standard, like Etherdelta and 0x, are possible because the EVM enables Turing Completeness. That makes Ethereum far superior to the other platforms mentioned as a token platform.
Oh you already commented that.
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Primarily a systems guy, hadn't really looked into web dev. After I burnt out and quit my job I developed https://discoverdev.io - a daily list of awesome engineering blogs!

Initial prototype developed over a couple of days, using plain HTML and CSS! Absolutely no JS.

This project was primarily to recharge myself after a bad job. I loved collecting and sharing links with my friends, so I made this!

I recently also added a mailing list and got a good number of subscribers :)
I've been involved in a few deals of that size (acquiree and acquirer) and to my knowledge, no acquirer ever had an IB. If funded, acquiree could lean on angel or VC who's seen a lot of deals.
Well if you really want to get into the philosophy of this, it is important to first acknowledge that concepts like "society", or "property" are completely fictional, made-up ideas, that people simply invented.

It's not that different from kids playing pretend in their parent's basement, inventing any rules they want for their game. They can do whatever they want, because there isn't anyone else around to tell them differently.

A lot, I mean a _lot_ of people do not often think about this fact, they sort of assume that these concepts were handed down by some impossible deity (god is not real.) But the truth is they emerged from intelligent self-aware people who for various reasons simply decided that these things should exist.

So with that in mind, if property is make-believe, how can you "own" something? What precisely is ownership? Just more make-believe, using different words.

If it exists at all, it's a social contract, and when it's you versus everyone else, hate to break it to you but it means nothing.
Use graphql-weaver to combine multiple GraphQL servers into one API
I think this is exactly the point the author is making. There exist regulatory entities to protect people from exactly the kind of logic you are using. If I don't know anything about cryptocurrency, and want to start trading, it would be nice to have entities that I can go to to find out the status of various players in the industry. If I'm new to the scene, what would make me inclined to believe 1337_haxor on some crypto-forum? Excluding everyone without deep knowledge is bad for the industry; including everyone without regulation leads to theft. Somewhere in the middle is probably better than either
I'll first do whatever's most sensible with current readily available tech and measure. Coin-hive success case [?] (or so I've read), used secondary tab, which contained details about mining data itself.

[?] I think they've removed it from their homepage, most likely because they thought it's not fitting to include it there. :/
Necronomicon quote? Nice. This has me thinking about what I can do to make my security answers to security questions untethered from PII. A book quote is a really good idea.
Audio Style transfer and texture synthesis using CycleGAN
AKG K240 (MKII)/Sennheiser HD 598 seem to be missing (I only know of these two)
There's like 1,000 programming languages and we don't need most of them. If a new language is truly amazing, by all means use it, but if it's hated by everyone I don't know why you'd choose it over something like C or Python or Perl which most developers seem to agree are the "good" languages.

I don't know any of the above mentioned languages myself, so beyond that outsider perspective I can't form an opinion on it, I am just curious why this choice was made.
Stronger regulation and enforcement of regulations.
If the stores are not forced to use Bitcoin and are still allowed to accept other forms of payment but simply choose not to, then yeah, it's voluntary.

Go find someone who's willing to take whatever you're trying to use instead, why should other people have to take your form of payment against their will?
A thousand times this. We'll know the JavaScript UI toolkit has started to mature when we can pick up a new tool and not have to abandon all of the other tools we already learned and spend a year getting on our feet in a new "ecosystem".
A Texas showdown about sharia law
> They have no market influence.

In other words you have no idea what you're talking about, and why should anything else you say be treated any differently?
Chinese group blocked by Trump announces UK chip-maker buyout
Oh, I've seen the --tollef option in the help doc, but I still didn't realize there was a complete alternative to gnu parallel. Definitely will have to try.

Mr. Hess makes a lot of good points, most I think I agree with, so I can sympathize with his frustration.

The point about transferring files seems interesting. I haven't used gnu parallel in remote/ssh mode aside from simple tests, but that seems wicked useful for some situations. Is there a real and simple alternative to running gnu parallel on multiple remote hosts? Is that something the moreutils version can also do?
> that booking a ride costs Uber pennies. Their share of the ride revenues is dollars. How is that not going to be super profitable once new market development costs ramp down?

Because Uber has no business "barrier to entry" for the ride booking: Other people can write smartphone apps that talk to the cloud or whatever also. If the money involved in the app is dollars from pennies, then others will be highly motivated to write the app.

So, the taxi business can return to small, local operators who also use a smartphone app.

Then the dollars Uber is getting stay with the driver and/or their local company.

Uh, mostly the taxi business is a local business. To me, for a centralized company to hope to make big bucks, or even any bucks at all, in the taxi business is wack-o.

For self-driving taxis, okay, for Level 3 automation, but that doesn't help much. What might help would be Level 5 automation, but IMHO that would require essentially full, real AI, and no one knows how to do that. Thus, to me, the idea that the taxi business will be affected by self-driving cars is just nonsense hype -- the media likes to have hype to get clicks.
Red Hat: You can use our patents if we can use your software.

Facebook: You can use our software if we can use your patents.

That's my severely over-simplified interpretation. The most significant difference is that Red Hat's promise extends to FOSS in general, though apparently not proprietary software. Facebook's license applies only to specific Facebook FOSS code, but it can be used in proprietary software.
Many paragraphs into this article, the author writes "[I realized] with a kind of mild shock that static libraries are actually just archives of object files." [emphasis in original.]

The issues that the author is concerned with here seem to be mainly misunderstandings arising from not knowing this beforehand.
I ran into an issue with this a few times... What was the fake birthday I entered?!
Just wait till consumers find out how toxic those fumes and particles really get with laser-sintering- and the whole market evaporates anyway.
https://cronitor.io started as a weekend project. I had an acute need for the product which enforced getting a working version quickly. After using the result of that first weekend hackathon in production for a couple of weeks my co-founder and I decided to put in another couple weekend afternoons and evenings to make it a saas product. We've been working on it part-time ever since.

I wrote more about it in an Indie Hackers interview a few months ago - https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor
oh, no it's russian hackers again! someone, call james comey!
You nailed it.

The user cares about access to content. The user does not care about DRM. The user does not care about corporate interests. Ad blockers are proof of this. The user wants what they want, and the people who provide that to them with the fewest hassles are the ones who win.

Everyone needs to appreciate that "cost" is a gigantic hassle to most people, no matter how much money they have. The concept of owning their content is another big consideration for people, which is why we saw "rental" models for video streaming fail in the past compared to "ownership" models.
In the case of “ridesharing”, how is it making the world a worse place?

It’s not clear that this market is winner take all. Rides are very cheap for consumers on Uber or Lyft. The experience is MUCH better than cabs in every city except maybe NYC. Drunk drivers are reduced.

So far it looks like the loser is going to be VCs. What’s wrong with that?
Drivers or Autonomous: I Choose Machine
The only people who give a @!#$ about the DMCA are lawyers. It's going to be repealed eventually.
If the author wants to extract ten seconds of your time once a year, that's just the price of admission. They're not uptight; they're trying to advance their career.

(Info: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2013-11/msg00006...)

This is a very important problem. We devs love to make tools, and we love to do it for free. But you can't eat idealism. Parallel is a nice tool, but it's probably not as impressive as it seems when it comes to landing a job.

You're free to decry the author and to point out alternatives. It's practically tradition. But I identify with where the author is coming from. How would you feel if you spent a bunch of time on a tool and the top comment blasts it for reasons unrelated to its merits?
>>> I'm doing similar, it's so much fun

Yes, basically this. I think most of us solve the same sort of problems day in and day out with our jobs; it's unbelievably fun to be dropped into a totally new problem space and have that feeling of complete ignorance again.
Is beaming down in Star Trek a death sentence?
It's so easy to make yoghurt, I wonder why most people don't do it. Add jelly, honey, or whatever you like, and you get something that's better than even the most fancy brands.
Anyone know if the FPGA code for the LimeSDR products is open source or tried to make modifications?
I just saw the new Kingsman movie. Minor spoiler alert:

In the movie, the US President is complicit in a scheme that would kill all the recreational drug users in the world. Blumenthal's comment reminds me of this. The guy's an idiot.
you need permission which could take weeks, to take donations through kickstarter or send micropayments to 1000 people through paypal, losing bitcoin or ethereum is a possibility but security strategies are improving, there will be growing pains in a new financial software platform but you already know that?
They block the js?
Appreciate a well-expressed comment, but I don't see what "the EU" as such has to gain by suppressing the report. The EU Commission is accused (in [1]) of withholding information in TFA, and I think the evidence is pretty thin here. As the linked post says itself

> But the EU never shared the report possibly because it determined that there is no evidence that piracy is a major problem

Now there might very well be lobbying for changing EU "copyright law"; I don't know, and TFA doesn't tell either.

(Actually, there's no such concept as "copyright" in France/Germany and other European jurisdictions with Code Civil heritage. Is "copyright" a Common Law or US-only concept? I guess with Brexit the only Common Law jurisdiction left in the EU would be Ireland but IANAL).

[1]: https://edri.org/did-the-eu-commission-hide-a-study/
Did the EU Commission hide a study that did not suit their agenda?