skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate
I feel insecure when Scott Bell thinks he has a better moral alignment than others.
@rgbrenner:

First, Qualcomm chipset also comes with IPs owned by Samsung and a slew of other wireless patent holders who crossed-licensed theirs with Qualcomm. Samsung and LG, along with Qualcomm, are the largest contributors of LTE SEP's and make up the bulk of LTE patents (KFTC likewise found that Qualcomm used its monopolistic position to force them to cross-license their patents for almost nothing in return). So no. Even if you stack everything, it won't be anywhere close to your nonsensical $77.

Second, under ETSI (see section 1.11), Qualcomm has the right to refuse the granting of licenses.
> I started using Slashdot in ‘97. I remember back then you had a cron to update the front page and we figured out you only run it every 10 minutes, so I built small shell script on my Linux desktop that would pop up a notification reminding me to reload slashdot every 10 minutes.

I did something similar but then at some point I ended up blocking slashdot.org in my hosts file because it was killing my ability to focus or get work done. I need a beowulf cluster of attention at work.
I just tried and wasn't forced to sign up.

I'd link straight to the exe which doesn't require a token / session as proof, but rather they have the analytics data.
Wonderful product! I use it all the time!

Oh ... vapourware ...

How I hate these posts that pretend that this thing exists and is wonderful and tells you everything it can do and how it will solve all your problems, and only then tells you to sign up so you can get told when the miracle occurs.

Closed. Good luck, hope it works out for you.
Are they talking about White Walkers....
You're probably thinking of CPython, which is indeed an alternative to PyPy.
Yes, I was just reading through that. The server is still single-threaded though -- they are getting the parallelism by starting multiple processes to do independent chunks of work. This makes sense for PostgreSQL, but has some fundamental limitations (e.g., it requires duplicated copies of a hash table to parallelize a hash join).
I built something similar 10 years ago (pre-Ethereum obviously). Launched at TechCrunch on stage. Execution wasn't that great and it died, but the main problem was that everyone thinks their ideas are awesome, and no one wants to do the actual work for a handful of tokens. We'll see if history repeats itself here.

That being said, best wishes. I'd love for something like this to eventually take-off.
Thanks! Looks like a form of

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

primarily using heat. In this case, they didn't seem to mention how they validated that their accelerated aging test accurately reflects the behavior of the device in real aging (which apparently is a common concern about accelerated aging -- what if there's a different physical process that occurs with time but that you didn't manage to accelerate by your test?).
The whole event can be found here (with slides):
http://videolectures.net/deeplearning2017_montreal/
Feedly, Netflix, Google Maps, as of this article:

https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/a-day-without-javascript
Aye, Ultimate is a no brainer if you are a polyglot, you get nearly all the singular ide's in one.
I am using PhantomJS for a similar project running on AWS Lambda - running into all sorts of rendering bugs / crashes. Wanted to make the switch to puppeteer, but as of now it requires a higher version of NodeJS than what Lambda supports. Was in the process of looking at Docker containers for my service, anyone have any thoughts on Heroku vs Docker?
I use Sublime every day and have for the last year. Before that, I was using free editors that were ok but had some annoying weaknesses. $80 doesn't seem like all that much for a professional tool that I use to help make my living every single day. Compare this to my neighbor, a professional mechanic who has $150k invested in SnapOn tools - and makes less money than I do.
US government is a huge entity made up of a lot of people, no matter how crazy something is you can always find someone who knows about it.
It's an HTML5-compliant parser. That means that, modulo bugs, it should produce the same results as any other modern HTML parser, which should also all be based on HTML5.

For context, since I think a lot of people are still unaware of this, the HTML5 standard precisely specifies how HTML should be parsed: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#parsing This is based on a survey of how the various browsers were handling it in reality, so it's not just one of those theoretical things that everybody ignores, it's an algorithm extracted from the brutal pragmatism of many separate code bases over many years. In theory now, all HTML parsing libraries should now be able to take the same input and produce the same DOM nodes. In practice I've not used a variety of such libraries, nor have I fed them very much pathological input, so I can't vouch for if this 100% true in practice, but in theory, there should no longer be any significant differences between HTML parsers in various languages, as they come on board with HTML5 compliance.
From the article:

>> What are the limits?

> You can have as many repositories as you want, but the total for your personal repositories can't exceed 100GB. Each team also gets 100GB.

Is there anything stopping people from creating team after team just to hoard data in Keybase?
Competence was taken from the article:

"Those who use foul language on social networks (such as Twitter) are sending an expensive signal that they are free –
and, ironically, competent. You don’t signal competence if you don’t take risks for it - there are few such low risk strategies. So cursing today is a status symbol, just as oligarchs in Moscow wear blue jeans at special events to signal their power."
I learned about 9/11 from the slashdot front page. Wow, 16 years ago.
I'm colourblind. I can sort-of distinguish the colours in set, because they still differ in some attributes like brightness, but it takes me much, much longer.

And of course some people are better at spatial stuff then other.
Uh, the 1980s are calling for you. That was the decade of the sony walkman, and headphones. Everyone had one. Or a no-name version, like I had.

I have bluetooth headphones and I just get tired of the battery going out. Besides being cool and not looking dated, is there any conceivable reason why removing the headphone jack saves money, makes them last longer on battery, makes it thinner or anything else?
The x62 is super attractive, except even the sxga+ mod is still a dim CCFL, or if you mod for led slightly brighter but colors all wrong with all sorts of artifacts from the light strip, and aftermarket-only awful batteries.

-An sxga+ (w/led mod) x61s owner.
It’s all a hypothetical. Reread his post again. It’s not perfect grammar, but should be growkable if you read it again.
NEW ANDroid GAME
Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs
The new age of DApps is here, and it’s not based on Ethereum
‘Dark Overlord’ Hackers Text Death Threats to Students, Dump Victims' Voicemails
Slashdot was a major inspiration to us as we grew Ars Technica, not to mention a major source of critical traffic and growth in those early years.

Hats off to Rob! I owe you, dude. We all do :-)
cmdrtaco, thanks for all the grits, inventing the blog and the watering hole that helped facilitate the discourse and creation of the open source movement.

#1794
For a slightly older audience, https://www.redblobgames.com/ has awesome interactive explanations.

(But I'd say you probably want to be at least around 12 years old and interested in programming games to seriously benefit from them.)
Would you be up for chatting? We've been wanting to talk to people from the Assembly team to hear about their experience.
But they did not actually demonstrate any attacks on ECC.
Absolutly not, agile is a philosophy: http://agilemanifesto.org of core values and principles.

There's no true agile process, because agile is not a methodology.

So when people say I've worked on a true agile team, and then go on criticizing their team's process, you know instantly they're not criticizing the agile core values and principles, but are actually complaining about scrum or whatever made up methodology their management invented and then likened to make everyone believe that because of it the company shares, supports and lives by the agile values and principles.
> That won't work with a dogmatic "I'm with her!" voter - nothing will.

So they antagonized those voters until they became a toxic force on their own and started convincing others for them.
I got hired as a junior developer (a long time ago) with a math and physics degree, one computer class on my transcript, no experience, and "mostly self-taught with respect to computers". I got hired by a manager who had a master's degree in math and was mostly self-taught with respect to computers.

So the skill set required to be employable as a junior dev is to be able to convince one hiring manager that you can do it. Then, after that, you have to learn enough to be able to actually do the work, so that you can remain employable. That's different, though. Learn what you need for the job you have. Don't worry about learning other things; learn what you need as fast as you can. You'll pick up other stuff around the edges, and that's good, but they're paying you to learn (and then do) what you need for this job.
Free Cross-Platform Mobile App Development Tools Compared – 2017
The best practices I'm talking about are built into the client software and a user doesn't need to know about them (new address per transaction already happens in most wallets). Again, totally not claiming linking ids isn't a problem, its just being touted as an impassable blockchain problem which is the basis of this discussion. The problem exists because governments are forcing all onramps to link IDS, not because of an inherent flaw of the system. Even with that 'flaw' other proposals/experiments already exist and work really well, and will probably be integrated directly into bitcoin in the future. An equifax-like service could exist that establishes credibility based on holdings or the public history of an address you control, not necessarily an identified individual. There are some clear benefits to that, one being your identifying information is not put at risk.
CloudFlare recently made news because they banned the rightwing extremist website Daily Stormer. Now it seems they are continueing the slippery slope that they decided to climb on by policing websites that use their proxy service for crypto currency mining.

They banned the site mentioned in the article without warning and deleted all the DNS settings. This is not how a serious infrastructure company should behave in my opinion.

My company has moved all domains off of CloudFlare about a year ago when they would silently drop requests and not log anything in the stats, no access to errorlogs (unless you are on the expensive enterprise plan). Some users were getting captchas while the analytics page said there were none from that country. We are not running anything even remotely questionable like torrent sites or anything political. But I'm pretty sure if we hadn't moved off of them already, this would be a time for us to consider it. It's not OK to claim you are a "dumb" pipe without control over a proxied sites content and police it at the same time.
Ha! I had no idea this article was so hotly contested. I'll definitely be reading through the links. Thanks.
Except that Germany 1933-1939 didn't have significant inflation.
Https encrypts the path and headers. How would they know which site you’re on? I doubt they’re going to RadicalBombPlans.com.
Multiculturalism is taught since grade school in America and is seen as the only way to structure a society by most in the country. I actually often get called a racist when I mention to other people that it isn't the only way.

edit: I do find it interesting that this comment was downvoted. For those of you downvoting me, could you please explain why? Was my critique on multiculturalism not the reason my post above was downvoted?
Can you elaborate on that distribution?
AI Building AI: how our bots are now training themselves 100x faster
It's 2017, and despite all this parallel stuff, query planners are still dumb as bricks. Every day I get annoyed at various obvious-to-the-eye WHERE clause pushdown opportunities, or situations where I can manually copy a view to a table, add indexes, and build a query on top of that quicker than letting the database fill up the entire disk with temporary files trying to do it as a subquery. It's utterly maddening if you spend your life on ad-hoc analytics/reporting workloads.

I strongly believe there are huge opportunities for AI to come along and, given a logical description of the data and query, do a better job of physically organising and serving the data. I realise some database management systems do this to an extent, but it's pretty weak sauce in my experience.
As I do with every PyPy release, I would like to point out that the PyPy official benchmarks for comparison against CPython[0] continue to misleadingly compare their latest and greatest with CPython 2.7.2 (released in 2011), as opposed to the modern CPython 2.7.13 or 3.5.3 versions for which they target API compatibility.

[0]http://speed.pypy.org
Grab a roll of tape, tape off most of the screen and use the rest of the tape to attach a brick to the bottom. Done.
You should try cdp4j - https://webfolderio.github.io/cdp4j/
I've only ever seen it as a drinking game in Singapore.
Andy Pavlo and Peloton db are the best!
X-ray Pulsar Navigation for Deep-Space Autonomous Applications [pdf]
Is there a newspaper out there that doesn't use bait-filled titles and articles filled with "analysis" and just reports the news?
Central / Eastern Europe.

And I heard similar things about south and east of Asia
> I'm not saying Obama is bad or anything though. It's not appropriate for an outsider to comment your president.

Why not?
I gave these to the high school kids that I mentor Robotics for - they each seemed to find different puzzles that they liked, so I consider that a win. These are the same kids who had fun learning binary search as a way to always win "high-low" guessing games, so they were already interested in logic.

My personal favorite from Tatham's puzzles is Net - I have it on my phone, with 15x15 wrapping being a nice way to relax and spend some time.
Genuinely curious, how would this affect the way we work differently than, say, a SaaS product that powers decision making at an organization with voting / assignment of tasks. What is the inherent advantage to using Ethereum to power this? I'm not _trying_ to be cynical, I just struggle to see how this is anything more than shoehorning a new technology into an existing product / space. Not saying it's not cool or that it should be dismissed because of that, it seems like a great proof of concept and it seems executed well, but I fail to see any real benefit to this to an "organization" (Perhaps my assumption of an organization being a business is my problem here) over a SaaS product that does the same thing.

> Rather than centralised
ownership and hierarchical management, smart contracts distribute ownership according to the
value each individual contributes, and influence.

So it's like Asana with a reputation system?
yes, you can order today and the estimated ship date is 4 week from today. please double check the suggested web site.

as comparison, I can order a pair of 8180 processors, its mb and RAM now and expect the package to arrive in 12 hours.
I haven't used facebook much for years now. Twitter might be next because while I like its ability to keep me up on many interests, the "lets take complicated issues and turn them into one liners" thing is souring me.
Yonathan Zunger's explanation of Paxos/consistency: https://hackernoon.com/how-your-data-is-stored-or-the-laws-o...

It's a lengthy read, but that's the one which helped me really understand Paxos.
Hah. You'd be surprised at how common that is.
A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly
Welcome to the club. I did this years ago.

That was sincere. I found it is hard to talk about it without being treated like a smug asshole. It's like everyone who hears you talk about it, even other people doing it, interpret you as a zealot extremist or something. For instance, if I didn't include this paragraph, I would be flag killed.
The GPG private key should be password-protected. Its basically symmetric encryption keyed off of the password using something akin to scrypt.
I doubt Norway alone could make a meaningful impact on China's social and geopolitical policy either. But like any type of protests it always takes one person to stand up to get the ball rolling, hopefully making some persuasive points, for others to join in to create real pressure.

Yet China has perfected their anti-western propaganda machine, when it's not censored it's to turned into victimization narratives or other reversals. The only 'real' pressure would be a united front with real economic costs imposed on China. That'd have to start somewhere but the efficacy must be honestly considered vs the very real costs China could impose in return against a single weaker opponent.

Considering many other bigger western countries have capitulated to China in similar ways, far quieter, over Taiwan and other social issues, it's better to characterize this as Norway falling into line with the rest of the countries. It wasn't quite a protest from the beginning nor was China bullying one country in particular (although the Noble prize thing clearly struck a strong cord among the elite).

One alternative, albeit a more cynical long-term perspective, with greater free trade and economic growth the Chinese middle class will continue to grow and each new young generation will be far better educated. Since external pressure seems unlikely to be effective or to be well incentivized, internal progress seems like the only hope.
> cheaper, more expensive

Huh. It's cheaper (worse quality) but costs more money?
> Anything can be scalable using that definition.

No, some things can't be, like badly architected monoliths, or databases. Especially with databases it's not a given, which is why for quite some time in the last years things like the "MongoDB is web scale" blew up and people started mindlessly asking "is it scalable" (which as you figured out, means very little for a lot of systems). I'm also pretty sure that your example scales worse than linearly, since you have to introduce multiple levels of management at some point.

"scalable" = "can it be scaled", which is not a given for every system
Stupid title for a TRUMPish article.
When we have Firefox focus for Android, I wonder why would anyone use this. Microsoft can dream about capturing the user base unless they open source it (which won't happen anyway).
Ask HN: Thoughts on applying blockchain token features to web/mobile apps?
As a developer working in the crypto space, I’ve always thought that applying blockchain features (scarcity / authenticity / traceability / security) to my own applications could be very impactful. If my app was wrapped in a blockchain protocol, I suddenly would have access to noteworthy capabilities. I could control the supply of the app’s distribution, which would imply to the consumers of the app that it is now a scarce resource. This would subsequently add value to whomever owns an instance of it.

To help visualize this, imagine a digital concert ticket with blockchain token characteristics. At a basic level, it is now authentic, traceable, and secure. It is on chain. What if you could add app-like features to it, make it do things when someone redeems it at an event? Some tickets could transform into backstage passes with exclusive content and could be considered a collectible. These collectibles are rarer than the tickets themselves and can be sold on an exchange to a “superfan.” You start to see that layering an ordinary ticket with blockchain characteristics greatly enhances its potential.

I would love to open up a discussion to see if anyone had thoughts/ideas on the matter, whether or not they think standard apps could benefit from blockchain?

Full disclosure: I currently work for a company called vAtomic and we have been working with BlockV and their “Virtual Goods” protocol like the one I just described for a few months now.

Take a look at their github if you’re interested: https://github.com/BLOCKvIO/documentation
5 is tough. Although I suppose Terry Tao was working out proofs by then ;)

By 8-9, something like the Japanese city-building card game Machi Koro is great for learning about variance, expected value, and optimization.
I think it says that in bold underlined text in the "Conclusions" section at the end.
Our systematic, aggressive cost accounting has forced reduction, offshoring, or outsourcing of basic R&D and core competencies in a number of tech fields. Shareholders hate investing beyond the next quarter. Where is the flow of innovations that used to come from Bell labs, DEC SRC, or Xerox PARC? Who among the Buffets and bankers will have the appetite to pay for it?
So do you think it is worth switching if you are using pandas and numpy heavily?
Kakerlakenpoker (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11971/cockroach-poker) is a game of pure bluffing that even small kids should fine enjoyable. The cute critters on the cards, like spiders and cockroaches, should help catch kids' interest.

The game itself is more about reading body language clues, but you can easily introduce a small amount of game theory mathematics in your deliberations.

(Ironically enough, Kakerlakenpoker has exactly the right structure for a drinking game. Lose a card: take a shot. Lose the round: finish the bottle.)
- A very high computational cost to mine new blocks
- A very high storage cost for each node

Those complains are most of the time coming from free lunch seekers.
The network have a value BECAUSE we inject value into it, and that's either direct investment or some energy spent during the mining.
The Cybersecurity Pathway: Employable Skills Found Here
Betteridge's law strikes again.
I thought maybe the article was going to be about how the Russians are beating us at the cyber-propaganda game.
Well shit, color blindness would definitely make the game more difficult, but I bet a grayscale version of the game could actually be made to work.

> And of course some people are better at spatial stuff then other.

Of course. My remark was really that the starting skill level of players can differ so dramatically that some people will literally have no fun at all (because they can't possibly win).

I've never come up with a reasonable handicap system to make the game more fun for everyone.
> It also elides the fact that, at a time of increasing automation here on Earth, the rush to send human colonists to space seems quaint, if not misguided.

Personally I find that with all the recent Space X announcements, space exploration really feels like the future is arriving. It turns out we don't need flying cars, but having space rockets that land themselves, having moon bases and people on Mars genuinely is the future.

This kind of stuff excites me and makes me long for the future. Automation doesn't.

Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1232/