skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liquidated all of my ether today. While I appreciate the potential of the technology, in my own opinion it is just too susceptible to market manipulations currently and there is too much uncertainty. I could be wrong but I am comfortable with that.

I will reinvest the profits in a vanguard fund where at least I know the 1000 pound gorilla manipulating the market is on my side. Kind of...

To those staying in, I wish you nothing but success.
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This is why making journals publicly accessible isn't a technical problem as much as a legal or policy one. Otherwise, this will just turn into a cat and mouse game with enough legal ramifications for those who use it.
The solution to get these artifacts returned is simple: A disorganized group simply needs to vow to destroy one cultural artifact of Austria at the time and place of their choosing until the head dress and other artifacts are returned.
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That doesn't follow. We know for an absolute fact that cold turkey doesn't work for most people. We also know that many people want to smoke even when knowing the dangers. A safer alternative is working better than anything before it ever has.
These are definitely interesting. They make me wonder what the underlying continuous function is, and if it's the same function for all the pictures.

These mostly look like aliasing to me. Which makes sense, perhaps is nearly obvious, because that's what you get when you plot the mod of a multiply on a grid.

It's pretty easy to reproduce something close to the large image (prime 9973), by just plotting the continuous function "(x * y) % 2", or even sin(x * y):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3eayuknh1urayay/001.jpg?dl=0

As a graphics person, what I normally do is try to remove that aliasing by using more samples.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/imx6njdek3wello/002.jpg?dl=0

And for nasty functions like this one, you find out that more samples doesn't fix the aliasing. See the hints of it still there far away from the center?

That's when you get into the fun signal processing math and have to use a better filter function to remove all aliasing:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ysoibo3v8j9b2gg/003_gauss.png?dl=0
You might try "Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks" for a high-level overview of different approaches.

https://pragprog.com/book/pb7con/seven-concurrency-models-in...
Ask HN: For those that have experienced it, how did ayahuasca change you?
Going to the Andes for a retreat at the end of this week. I felt the Call and all the logistics just fell into place. The center I am going to needs my help for a few tech-related things, so we worked out a way for me to go for only $400. This center also has some of the highest reviews on Ayaadvisors and Retreat.Guru. I feel good about the shamans, the accommodations, the facilitators, and the setting.
I think you're missing what is interesting about this, from a technical point of view.

This is neat, and novel:

> "Ads displayed above are loaded directly from the Ethereum Blockchain. This Decentralized Application (DApp) does not have a traditional backend. No MVC framework, no SQL database. It's just a JavaScript application served statically from Github which speaks to the Ethereum blockchain using Web3.js."

That they're profiting from it is just an amusing side effect, imo.
I saw a similar behavior in their binding formulas, I noticed the formula method would never get called unless you had used a "get" method inside of it. This may have been documented, not necessarily a bug - but it made me think they were scanning the source code at run time to figure out which events to observe.

*Note: Not sure which version this was.
>Maybe he was happy-as-a-clam there but spending your entire adult life having (seemingly) never taken a risk.

If he was able to climb the ladder to become the CEO, he probably took some very big risks and had a very big target on his back. The risks are just different from moving from one company to another.

I've worked at different large companies and met plenty of people who only did exactly what was asked for them. They barely took any risks. Every few years they got a standard promotion as per HR policy, but ultimately their career trajectory stalled. There's nothing wrong with that, but somebody who can climb to be a CEO of a company like Intel surely took some risks and did something to stand out?
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> How do we FORCE our politicians

By design, you don't force politicians to do anything, you just vote against the ones doing what you don't want.

In the US, the entire electoral system is built around (for the benefit of both politician and sponsor) obfuscating responsibility away from representatives and holding them to the least account for laws passed or policy in place as possible, and then limiting the ability of constituents to replace them when they want to via gerrymandering / private campaigning.

This is just one drop in a sea of evil brought about by broken election systems enabling corrupt laws and policy that nobody is ever held to account for.
Probably not much different, since Intel's baseband is on many versions of the iPhone.
Can someone quickly explain how file storage / bandwidth off the blockchain works? Who pays the gas to deliver it to end users?
Fair point, I had that thought myself.

If you'd permit me to add another couple letters, though, I might call them YIMAYBY (yes in my and your backyard).
I'm soon going to set up some sample exercises for people to see.

But even now, if you dislike it after the first month, cancel and I'll refund your purchase.

Or: Read any of my free e-mail courses (http://lerner.co.il/e-mail-courses/), and you'll see the sorts of exercises I write.

Also: I'd like to think that it's not just exercises, but also the community of other solvers and my explanations.
You gotta die from something.
Same recommendation for desktop too.

A serious question, since such recommendations are regularly thrown around in these threads.

Can you run FreeBSD with a recent AMD GPU (I know that there is the proprietary NVIDIA driver)? Does Wayland work? What about HiDPI screens with GNOME? Is there support for Dropbox now? Is Chrome supported? Does it use GPU acceleration for movie playback?

(As far as I could gather the answer to most of these questions is still 'no'.)
If the average life expectancy in the US is 78 years, that means there are plenty of people who might live to be 90, perhaps even beyond 100 and many who will die anywhere between childhood and that average number.

Sadly, many interpret this to be that they will live to be that magic average number, and either get caught off-guard when time is up sooner (perhaps regretting having neglected family time / travel / personal stuff), or unprepared in the case they live 20 years beyond what their savings had projected to last.
> Facebook collects on you when you interact with their systems

I do not think this is true. What happens with my e-mail address when someone else signs up to Facebook and shares their contact list (with my e-mail address in it)?

How did Facebook know who my friends are the very moment I signed in, without sharing my address list?

They already have collected information on my social graph, without my own explicit permission, but with implicit permission from less tech-savy friends.

And that's nothing to say about people tagging me in Facebook pictures to train their giant DeepFace algorithm.

In both scenario's I am not accessing or interacting with a Facebook system, while my information is still being abused.
You're referring to a ponzi scheme. ICOs aren't ponzi schemes, but most of them are pump-and-dump schemes.
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Government jobs sprouting as legal pot looms in California
Surely the taxes refer to cigarettes. Vaping equipment is sold in a variety of ways, but none of them are by the "pack".
Agreed that it's not malicious. But it is insidious and should be prevented. There's only a half dozen large Silicon Valley orgs worth worrying about. Maybe a dozen domains.
Basically never take any explanation as a given (and acknowledge and embrace not knowing).

One could argue that kids know the method quite well when they're around 4 years old and subsequently unlearn it:

- Why?

- [Explanation]

- Why?

- [Explanation]

- Why?

- [Explanation]

- Why?

[Starts ripping hair out.]

- [Explanation]

- Why?

[Rips more hair out.]

- [Explanation]

[More of the same until adult loses patience or kid runs out of questions. If kid never gives in...]

- Why?

- Just because!

^^^ This is how you unlearned it.
It was originally transported when those feathers were relatively fresh. Now they are 500 years old. Feathers aren't meant to survive that long and remain structurally sound.

When Tutankhamun's tomb was found, there were these beautiful beaded sandals that had been preserved exactly as they had been left for 3,200 years. When the archaeologist or assistant (I forget) went to pick them up to transport away, the thing burst apart collapsing into a pile of unordered beads. The strands that had been used to construct it had deteriorated to dust hundreds or thousands of years earlier and the sandals were held together only by the static configuration of the beads. Picking it up changed the relative angle of "down", and boom.

Edit: Corrected date.
If it helps, I used vaping to quit smoking.

I was a pack-a-day clove smoker for years, and eventually one day I switched to an e-cig. I switched hard to vaping and didn't touch a cigarette again. Soon, I geared down to 4mg nic, and then I just... stopped about two months in. One day I realized I hadn't touched my e-cig in a week, and that was it for me.

That was four years ago, and I've only touched nicotine once since then (I smoked a single clove for old time's sake about two years after I quit... and then I declined a second one).
Whoever bought the ad for syscoin.org didn't use an absolute URL and the link goes to https://thousandetherhomepage.com/syscoin.org.
There's a hidden benefit to taking it too far. If you annoy someone with your constant simple questions, they will finally determine that asking you to solve their problems for them will take too long, and they'll try to solve it themselves. Or they'll ask someone else. Either way it's one less annoying student :)
All of the listed corporations also have a large number of fanboys and haters, so are going to attract a large number of votes even if employees abstain.
> Why is someone entitled to control accumulated wealth after they lose their faculty?

Not directly answering why they're "entitled to", but why they'd want to - they will (likely) still be alive for quite some time, and their quality of life will depend heavily on the resources they have available.
The thing that has stuck with me is the career test that was given to someone with a split brain, and one side wanted to be a racecar driver and the other wanted to be something completely different. [1]

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201...
You can get lots of dev boards for existing SoCs. They have the problems of no PCIe, no SATA, etc that the n^parent was complaining about. If you want those features you first have to identify an SoC that has those; my claim is essentially that such pre-existing SoCs with the kind of features you want in a "developer box" are so thin on the ground as to be pretty nearly nonexistent. "Use a preexisting SoC" is what my classes 2 and 3 are.
I wonder about this every time I replace a coil that is toasted. There are several types of coils now (Ni, kanthal, stainless) - it'd be nice to know more about the degradation of the metals and its effects for sure.
You're most welcome :) Thank you again for doing a great job, offering your time and brain to improve the Elixir community! I certainly benefit a lot from Distillery and the Docker images that you always keep up-to-date.
> If you are said parent, which of the kids do you absolutely trust to never ever screw you over no matter how much incentive there is and no matter how hard a times they fall on?

From the purely optimization viewpoint your "never ever" is too strict. This just has to be less likely and/or less damaging (however you want to choose a utility function) than losing your marbles and getting into a professional con artist's net.

Everyone's case is different, but I personally would never take my parents money for my own goals; same for my siblings and their kids. Maybe it is just my experience, but I grew up in a strong culture of "kids first"; parents are always sacrificing something for kids and that was seen as normal. If my parents had money and knew that my kids were hungry I have absolutely no doubt that they would push it to feed their grandkids before I ask.

Not to criticize your post (I think you are being unfairly downvoted), but mentally running a check on how would I feel today if I were in my 80s, totally incompetent, and my kids wanted to steal my money. Heck, in that case I do not know what I would live for -- kids, take whatever I still have, use it for your family and put me out of my misery.
I believe the VSCode team is indeed looking into using webassembly.
ahhhh... good ol' ZX Spectrum
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And more importantly, most men with prostate cancer will die of something that isn't prostate cancer.
> if consciousness is only a property that doesn't influence the actual physics, then how are we even able to talk about consciousness?

We conscious beings can talk about consciousness because we can never understand how consciousness arises from the actual physics, and can't talk about that. By not being able to comprehend how physics and conscious minds interact, our minds can talk about each separately. Perhaps the same principle extends to various components of physics, such as General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics -- maybe our consciousnesses are incapable of conceiving of the math that unites them. After all, Mathematics is simply only a product of our conscious minds.
dont universities pay for subscriptions, so most academics can already access these materials via their own library? where does the number 4 million come from? i figured sites like this are broadening access to scientific literature to people outside the institution -- who otherwise would not be subscribing anyway (maybe im wrong?)
"We use git for source control. hg, largely written in Python, was started within a few days with the same goals. Who won?"

I somehow doubt git's popularity has a whole lot to do with it having been written in C.
66 is way too young! Know your place in this life, so that ultimately you are ready at any age.

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Very good info. Makes me wonder what effect testosterone might have? Has anyone researched that?
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For those with any moral ambiguity around sci-hub, as an american citizen simply trying to research questions like "What chemicals that act like estrogens are in my public water, and in what dose?" you unfortunately cannot effectively without either purchasing articles at $45 each or using sci-hub.
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It's not just a dangerous idea. It's an unjust one that foregoes due process. It's vigilante justice, like witch hunting in early modern Europe and N. America, lynching in the Jim Crow era Southern USA, and the Hollywood communist blacklist in the 1950s. Just because ruining people's lives via social media is en vogue at the moment doesn't make it right. How could you possibly know whether claims you've read are true before you decided to ruin the lives of the accused?
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One of my all-time favorite characters is Le Cagot from Shibumi by Trevanian.

https://www.amazon.com/Shibumi-Novel-Trevanian/dp/1400098033

Up there with Edna from the Incredibles.
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I've been on projects where between the project managers, technical managers, and other managers... there are 9 people in the room...and I'm the only technical resource -- on the project.

Fortunately for me, those projects are few and far between these days, but, earlier on in my career, they were common and frequent.
I enjoy reading Winnie-the-pooh to my daughter. Every character is dysfuntional in their own way, but at the end of the day they all stick together. I find it a great tool to plant the seeds of diversity: the world is not made up of "all the people who share my interests and live like me", it's colorful, messy, sad, spontaneous, full of surprises and generally a much better place when sticking together.
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I would say that that happens most of the times.

Our society is based on work, that's why you should try to get a good one.
You http to the quacamole server, that server runs quacd that handles vnc, rdp to the desktop you want to reach. It's a proxy essentially.
I have to deploy this method with internal customers. I call it either proof-of-work or back pressure.
Ask HN: Is Peter Diamandis' Strike Force a Scam?
Hey guys, so long story short, I was selected to compete as a fellow for a position on the Peter Diamandis Strike Force, which is a pretty cool gig. He works on a lot of interesting stuff, you can check his wikipedia out here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Diamandis

Where I'm hesitant is that the competition isn't merit based, but sales based! I'm supposed to sell his courses at a discount to other entrepreneurs, and it sits a little strangely with me that this is the case. Is this common practice, or should I simply not participate?

For context, these are the courses:

https://www.a360.digital/a/5534/uBvt6sHa

https://www.a360.digital/a/5535/uBvt6sHa

They certainly seem legitimate to me as far as executive courses go, but the competition itself just doesn't sit well :/
disclaimer: this is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer

Just curious since this keeps coming up. Why would people add these IANAL disclaimers, especially on an anonymous forum?

I would assume that if you wanted to stand out as a lawyer in a discussion you would have to explicitly announce yourself to be one and because this is internet most people still wouldn't believe you (even if you really were a lawyer). I cannot fathom how would that go the other way around.

Disclaiming that "I'm not a lawyer" sounds a bit like an introduction to a string of other disclaimers, as in me not being a medical doctor, CS professor, airline pilot, or law enforcement official either.

Is there a court case where someone took, out of thin air, someone else's word as if he was a lawyer while he wasn't and never said he was, suffered some losses because of it, and actually won in court? Or what's the reason for adding the IANAs?
> Japan still has a class of people called the Burakumin: these untouchables are condemned to the lowest jobs and the dirtiest slums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin
Payment as part of the protocol alone will make DAPPs a game changer.
Well, I have no real idea why it's hard, but I know that it is. Saying you're getting really tired of bad names is like saying you're getting really tired of software that has bugs. Sure, it's annoying, it should be fixed, but it affects everything and it's hard.
I'm a consultant and think about going independent every so often. The thing is there's only so many hours to sell.

I'd rather be at my firm with bonus tied to account revenue which is generated by teams of people. That way your pay is disconnected from your time and has much more room to grow.
66!? Wow... That's sad in 2017. Not old at all.
Intel has made some risky moves and bad bets since he became an executive (1990?), and even further back when he was hired. Pentium 4, XScale, and Itanium come to my mind.

Intel hasn't been a tiny start up for decades. You can do many different things inside a large company that is in so many markets. Just because someone stays at the same company for their entire career doesn't mean that they were riding the gravy train the entire time.
Is "public interest" a defence here? As an outlier, let's imagine someone discovers the cure for cancer, and publishes it via Nature. Who then demand a billion for each article viewing.

I can easily see a public interest defence succeeding in this made up case, so where is the line?
horizon.io seemed to be a promising entry, but unlike RethinkDB the database, this project appears to have died with Rethink the company.
>It seems to me the surest way to guarantee mediocrity is to incentivise blatant money grabs.

GP explicitly states that's the current state of affairs. That's the basis of his point, in fact.
We've also tried to be transparent and document our current limits here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/quotas
Reader View in Firefox. Chrome has browser extensions for this.
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Not to derail the entire discussion, but what is the current best practices regarding treatment for prostate cancer?

Is there anywhere to keep up-to-date on this specific topic, if it is indeed nearly inevitable?
Well if they got the Go runtime on WASM, you could run it in a interpreter and do live reloading. Keeping state across reloads would be challenging, but I don't think it would be an impossible feat.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892
> So I should just write my application twice?

No, write it thrice (need mobile web version as well).