skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> significantly faster (at least as fast as Google V8 for ECMAScript)

Not by a long shot.

> and that supports the full Ruby language

And that's not even counting that.

Your best bet for speed with some remotely Ruby flavored language would be Crystal. Your best bet for parallelism (using JVM threads) with full Ruby support would be JRuby. Topaz is dead. There's the experimental TruffleRuby but I'd rather not bet on this yet.
This is my favorite game of all time. What an amazing breakdown of its contents! Still inspiring in 2017. I'm glad to see other finely animated side scrollers like Cuphead are being made.
All Japanese are "indigenous people" of Japan, just with different amounts of migrant Chinese DNA mixed in (in a nutshell).

Both the non-Ainu "regular Japanese" and the modern Ainu have indigenous common ancestors.
No, UWP is not part of .NET Core.
Have a look at the page. It can do both.
I struggle to believe that's enough to drive a 400+% increase YoY for 2017.
The size of your wallet doesn't matter when you're in prison or dead.
No, it’s different people doing it, but the same few people funding it. Like VC.
So this takes 15% fee vs 30% for Coinhive. With almost non-existant barrier to entry, it seems like commission would be driven down to what traditional mining pool cuts (1% or less)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

This sounds like such an insane proposition relative to the Dropbox we know today.

The top comment is being pedantic that it doesn’t technically replace a USB drive because you have to install software and have access to the Internet. Hilarious in retrospect.

If the biggest complaint someone can have is “you have to have Internet” you’re doing OK.
> become conscious of and "reify" individual thoughts and sensations

Those reified concepts (such as the 'Self') are useful in daily life. They are just concepts, abstractions that don't perfectly model reality, but they have their utility. Even the meditation practices need to be explained conceptually first, a paradoxical situation because we need concepts to go beyond concepts. Approximations are useful.

By the way, an anecdote: there is one meditation where you just ask yourself "Who am I?" and then wait and sense what you feel is your I-ness. By being mindful of that during all activities, it leads to a state beyond conceptual thinking, where the question "Who am I" becomes meaningless.
I don't see anywhere in the article what they estimate or have tested the full system efficiency to be.
Hahaha yep, incredibly ironic. I'm working on adding search ASAP, I didn't expect to get this many eyes on it so fast as it's an mvp still.

The registration is really to contribute and upvote. Since we're trying to build a reliable, credible learning community, having real users, and future functionality like karma or reputation is important, I think.

After all, what hopefully sets this apart from other resources like wikihow and the like is that its focused on actual rated resources uploaded by actual learners like you and I. Or at least, that's what I hope!

I'm super new to all this, so I'm honestly just trying to build it and see where it takes me haha
I found that when doing lots of array code that needs to be fast, you cannot rely on the high-level abstractions of normal Swift. But even while staying in Swift there are API's to drop down to, lower levels of array manipulation etc. where you get the speed of raw C (independent of your optimisation settings).
Milestones: The Story of WordPress
Grafeas: An open-source API to audit and govern your software supply chain
Your technical skills are not your only skills. You have problems solving skills, learning skills, and so on. You don't have to necessarily know a technology to get a job using it, you just need to convince the company that you can pick it up quickly.

If you build a 1-week frontend project and say "I know React!" that's unconvincing. If you say "I can learn new tech quickly, here's a thing I built after having just learned React, and at my last job I did X quickly with Y"... that's more convincing.

More here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/07/16/which-programming-sk...
> You are running Vue in development mode.

haha

Anyways, it's time for a miner blocker browser plugin I guess, this sucks!
American Pravda, NYT Part II – Exploiting Social Media and Manipulating the News
Collection of unused logos for free
Hi, I’m a logo designer and for the past couple years I have unused concepts of logos that are piling up on my hard drive and I decided to give them for free, maybe for use in personal/school projects, or a placeholder for web developer when making sites for clients etc.

By giving them free it doesn’t mean I’m talking about crappy work here. Check it out yourself. http://www.picograf.com/junk
I was a part of research on HAMR a few years ago. I remember one problem they were having was the heating lasers would burn out after a few writes. There was also research into spin torque MRAM, so it's interesting that spin-torque was used to make something that replaced HAMR.
I don't see the problem as long as you warn your users before making them explicitly start the miner to receive stuff.
Developer Experience (DX) – User experience design for dev tools
This Script Helps Install Adobe Creative Cloud on Linux
JavaScript Front End Framewok CLI Showdown
Ask HN: Why do you want to start a business?
What are the things that motivate you?
When did you decide it was the right path for you?
What does/will having a business provide for you?

I think there is a big hype around startups and starting your own business, and I am wondering how much is influenced by social pressure, and how much by innate will.

Obviously not everyone who visits HN wants a startup, but I am asking the ones that do.
> a method must be tied to only one object

What do you mean by that?

You can do this:

class A; def m; 'A'; end; end
class B; def m; 'B'; end; end
[A.new, B.new].map(&:m)
=> ["A", "B"]

Or you can use mixins if you want to share the behavior of code across classes without using inheritance.

I like Ruby especially because "everything is an object". That's a simple concept that you can understand easily.

Every time I use Python I stumble over how it does things differently. I can't wrap my head around the Python way.

Note, I don't like the metaprogramming approach that Rails popularized. Metaprogramming in small doses is okay but when everything you touch has some kind of indiscernible magic around it, it's just too much.
Even at its downs, bitcoin has found demand still. That is a very interesting signal. If it were just the ponzi as you say, it would have come crashing down on its downturns.

That is profoundly faulty reasoning.

For a lot of people, a drop in bitcoin is just a signal to buy because they have an irrational belief that it can never really go down permanently (which, to anyone who remembers 2007, should sound familiar).

A ponzi scheme can go on as long as you can find new market entrants, and what makes Bitcoin remarkable is that it can tap into revenue sources throughout the entire world, and in particular in places where socioeconomics and geopolitics makes something like Bitcoin extremely attractive. That's a lot of fuel for this particular fire to burn before it fizzles out (presuming fundamentals aren't established before then).

The world has never really seen anything quite like this, and it'll be fascinating to see what happens over the next 10-15 years. And, meanwhile, again, there is a lot of wealth being transferred, and I'd love to see where it's going...
Not just cost but density. I'm pulling these numbers out of the air, but suppose you could have a $100 4TB SSD or a $600 24TB HDD some years from now. Many datacenters will still prefer the HDD just for the rack space considerations.
I wish source code for more old games was available. For a long time I was trying to trace the source of Dark Sun: Shattered Lands and Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager, as I'd love to port them to run in modern systems (without emulators, and with the idea to fix bugs and/or improve the art - making a "remastered edition", if you will). Same for other games I loved back in the day - the Twinsen series, Twilight:2000, and a few others.

There's the hybrid emulation approach (http://gabrielgambetta.com/remakes.html - disclaimer, I wrote that) but I haven't gotten around to doing it for these games.
The Crimea is a funny old place. Last vestige of the Goths, possible Anglo-Saxon colony.. interesting stuff. Makes me wonder if those peoples ever met. They might have at least had a common ground for communication. I don't know enough about the area to know how closely they were geographically. It might make a wonderful novel is any aspiring writers feel like using it as a basis.
>Is this as much of a collusion attempt against TensorFlow as it seems?

What do you mean by collusion here? Seems more like an attempt at competition than collusion.
The Google blog lists a number of companies that are implementing Grafeas.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/introducing-gra...

The GitHub repository is here.
https://github.com/Grafeas/Grafeas

The GitHub README.md has the most concise description of Grafeas, which is a metadata API specification. It further explaisn note and occurrence. I think that reading through the README.md of the Grafeas project first might help to understand the blogs by Google and IBM.

https://github.com/Grafeas/Grafeas/blob/master/README.md

When can I use this as part of the IBM Cloud? Any speculation? Can I use it on the Google Cloud? It seems like Black Duck integrating it with the Google Cloud
https://blog.blackducksoftware.com/black-duck-google-grafeas

Or, do I need to install this myself?
Okay, we'll bookmark this for the future. Amtrak estimated a HSR/"bullet train" from D.C. to Boston would cost ~$151 billion. Since LA to SF will only be two stops, and we can assume Amtrak estimated at least 4 (Philly and NYC) let's bring the number down closer to $100 billion to make it even.

Do we think the Hyperloop costs are more or less than that? 1/8 of a theoretical $100b is $12.5b -- is $12.5billion for Hyperloop unreasonable? I have no opinion on cost personally, and I don't know economics, but this $151 billion from D.C. to Boston was floated by the established US player in rail infrastructure. Anything less than that number is fantastic, right?
> Too bad we can't print GIFs.

This is the best approximation I've seen: https://www.giphoscope.com/
Thank you for your feedback. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the magnetometer is only for measuring the earth's electromagnetic field, right ? What if I want to detect metal nearby, does the same chip will be OK for the task ?
The wikipedia entry appears to be spectacularly short of information on the sheer level of griefing on Twitch plays Pokemon. Just hope that 4chan doesn't find your plant.
Next, someone should do a social experiment to let strangers on the internet decide whether a person is fed.

This might get way to dark way too fast :)
Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for Ultralow-Cost Storage
Also, planes are a terrible idea. I mean how do you evacuate people from them if something goes wrong? I think this whole airplane thing is just vaporware.
My favorite historical example of this is that of the nautical screw.

Orwell mentions it in one of his lesser-known essays when discussing the problems with arguing about economics(1).

>"When the nautical screw was first invented, there was a controversy that lasted for years as to whether screw-steamers or paddle-steamers were better. The paddle-steamers, like all obsolete things, had their champions. Finally, however, a distinguished admiral tied a screw-steamer and a paddle-steamer of equal horsepower stern to stern and set their engines running. That settled the question once and for all. And it was something similar that happened on the fields of Norway and of Flanders [referencing economic questions]."

1 - www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_saw
Standardizing Kubernetes service component auditing and policy enforcement
That's kinda a freakish alt history look there with George and nazi activity.
I'd expect SSDs to be significantly more expensive but higher density actually.

My perception of the future is maybe a 20TB SSD for $2000 vs 15TB HDDs for $500.
Stripe is an amazing enterprise, but we've yet to see whether or not it will delivery steady profits, and profits anywhere close to the 20 PE that stocks trade at.
What does a tech lead do?
OppenheimerFundsVoice: Will This Bull Market Persist?
The difference pointed out in the headline being that when NYT, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc, have compromised scripts they can serve fake flash updates. If CircleCI has them they can compromise my source code and API keys.

The vulnerability might be the same, but the danger to users is not.

Excerpt for reference:

This is a problem because the CircleCI browser context has full access to the CircleCI API, which is hosted on the same domain, so all eight of those companies' scripts can make requests to CircleCI API endpoints. Furthermore CircleCI customers frequently either include credentials in source code or as environment variables in CircleCI. Set these, and you are trusting that CircleCI won't get compromised, or at least, your application is at most as secure as CircleCI is.
While I agree with this sentiment, I find it ironic I have no concern from my companies perspective where we will roboblast customers.
The question is a variant of Theseus's Paradox. If you change some parts of God's character and actions, is it still the same god, or another? It really depends what kind of sameness you're asking about: grammatical, historical, nominal (claimed)... The question is otherwise ambiguous.

You are right nominally; the person you're replying to is right in terms of doctrine. Otherwise, you would say you were Muslim (or some pan-abrahamic variant) and not Christian.
Your types of comment annoy me more than harsh criticism frankly, at least criticism can be constructive, your comment is just fluff.

I mean, let's apply your logic to its logical conclusion: we should never criticize anything, ever, on the off chance it could end up working and then people would look back on our comments and call us silly. On that note I'm just starting a gofundme to create my own interplanetary travel agency, don't forget to donate.

Yeah, HN was wrong about dropbox (although some of the criticism was a lot more specific and arguably accurate than some make it up to be). Now let's fetch the comment threads about color.com, about google plus, about the ubuntu phone, about whatever other failed product we've already long forgotten about.

If HN is wrong about hyperloop, so what? You'll be able to gloat about it in a few decades from your supersonic train seat. In the meantime there are real, practical questions that need answering and that's a much more interesting discussion than "wow this is so coool" or "I wonder what Elon Musk's armpits taste like".

Do you think that the Hyperloop One folks are going to read this thread and give up on the project? "Well, looks like we were wrong, shut down everything folks". I can get this argument for a small startup of one or two young entrepreneurs but for some reason I don't expect Virgin Group to be that insecure.
I find the thought of naming a plant funny :D

I wonder what Jeff's doing tonight :D
alright, definitely a cool start! I wish you all best on your journey :)
U.S. withdraws from UNESCO
You can say that to excuse all sorts of revisionism.
> there exists no continuous epimorphism f: R^n -> R^m, where m > n

Really? Then what is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve?
My instinct tells me negative comments aren't actually coming from the direction of "stupid idea! can't be done!". This isn't to say there aren't significant engineering roadblocks to the Hyperloop, but I don't think that's the root of the negativity.

People are pointing out the glaring flaws in the Hyperloop idea, not because they can't or won't believe that crazy ideas are possible, but in reaction to the media's reaction to Elon Musk's PR. Surely I'm not the only one who wants to upchuck every time that Musk makes a claim and the media drools all over whatever he says. It even goes beyond the media itself but how the public reacts to how the media reports Musk. Otherwise smart people I've met have likened Musk to a modern day Edison, or even Tesla. Musk's companies have achieved great things, but he has more in common with Barnum than famous inventors.

Testing impossible ideas is wonderful. Musk's PR being inflated by the media, creating an audience of believer sycophants, is a different story and I really don't mind people blowing holes in the Hyperloop theory if the newsprint-spewing public isn't going to get that from technology reporters. I'd bet Hyperloop critics actually like the idea at one level or another, and hate to see such ideas looked at with pollyanna eyes.
This doesn't have an API though so I don't really understand how you would use it for rewards. With Coinhive you can verify the number of solved hashes per user server-side.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Stripe Connect
Hi folks,,

We use Stripe Connect (their marketplace service) to process > 100k/month in transactions, both CC and ACH. I'm starting to look at alternatives, but haven't been able to find many that can split payments, which is a key feature of the platform (we charge $100, X goes to the seller, Y remains with us).

I've looked at braintree, but wasn't sure if there were any other compelling alternatives.
The ugly parts of our country's history are under-taught, especially the closer you get to the present. This is an anecdote that points to a categorical problem.
The SBU warns of large-scale cyberattack on state structures, private companies
This onsite coding assignment failed 20+ front end contractors and don't know why
I just made one! It can be found here[0]. Not perfect and relies on a Google Form for now, so a Google account is needed to view and copy the form.

Also, if you want it to take sections of the Player's Handbook, you need a PDF of it! Depending on your PDF, the page numbers may need to be tweaked.

Let me know what you think!

[0] https://github.com/trevormcdonald/intro_dnd
Show HN: Blacks – a global black theme for the web
I'm not this kind of engineer, but couldn't the pylon problem be addressed by a sliding rail mechanism between the pylon and the sealed tube? Or replicating the station mechanism at each pylon? Maybe I just don't see the problem you're pointing out.

edit: in retrospect, I can clearly see the problem with expanding shaped tracks.

What happens to a long S-shaped track? Think about expanding each segment of the top curve... the turn radius increases and as does the length of the turn. How do you support a tube that can get longer, move outwards along the curve, and change angles at various points? S is just an example, it seems to be a problem with any number of turns (including 1)...

I suppose one option is to simply put it underground to stabilize ambient heat input, and use heat extractors to manage heat generated by the train. If the system shuts down, there might be some thermal contraction but that's easier to manage (it's OK for track segments to separate when trains aren't running - just warm them up before operation)
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

-Lyndon Johnson.
I was lucky enough to read and understand the Odyssey in ancient Greek and realize how beautiful it is. I always felt that it has really kick-started my part of the brain that imagines and dreams. Translations are great but if you could ever read such a masterpiece in its original language you would do yourself a favour. Kinda of like learning Lisp one day :).
That feels like the problem to me--there's no incentive for a website to do so instead of simply mining without the user's consent.
Drawing parallels between meditation and reinforcement learning, I have realized that those thoughts we are supposed not to sustain (about the future and past) are simulations. We do model-based RL in our heads, simulating (imagining) future events in our minds, in order to adapt. So mindfulness is telling us not to simulate, and instead, just to perceive.
In which way can resources lead people astray? It sounds kinda weird. I thought a resource has topics whereby it sets its focus.

Is it cause they expected sth else from the resource? Was the focus unexpected? Is the content wrong? Not useful for certain problems? Is it cause it repeats sth learnt already?
I love C because I do a lot of low-level programming and I feel closer to the machine with C. For higher level UI stuff I like the Smalltalk extensions to C and Obj-C's dynamic nature and the fact that I can use C (and C++ directly).

Also I have been programming the Mac for a long time and I have a lot of mental investment in Objective-C.

OTOH, I do like the functional, strongly-type features of Swift, but like any higher level language I feel more removed from the machine. That's the price for abstraction.
It's all fun and games until 6 million jews die.
The news this week was that it works with .net standard 2.0 but I assume only on windows.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/10/10/announcin...

If keepass were a .net standard library, you could have different front-ends for various platforms. Making the front-end crossplatform is a good goal too. I'm sure you could use bindings to Qt or gtk. There's various native crossplatform front-ends in the works too. See my comments below.
It only sucks if you use it without user-consent. Sadly a lot of sites probably will, which is why a blocker sounds reasonable.
Trump seems unaware that there is anyone in the world not intimidated by him or his bluster. He's a checkers player who stumbled ass-backwards into a global chess match.
Sure, but you can configure a webserver to always redirect to the https version of a site.
Singapore sharding blockchain Zilliqa hits 2,400 transactions per second
Another weird moment in history:

Nazis attend the Nation of Islam summit, 1961 - https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CbcE6rSSouc/WAL8t2PEfHI/AAAAAAAAL...

Black nationalists and white nationalists coming together. Bizarre stuff.
That's a quite novel way of whitewashing the kind of whitewashing of official school (and even academic) history that countries usually do and has been studied and documented by historians and activists time and again.

No, topics like the Native American concentration camps or the history of the Japanese Americans in WWII, the gory details of the US racial and labour history, and other such things were not historically kept away from school books for decades on end because "too many things to teach, too little teaching time".

The same reason the Japanese don't keep their WWII doings in China out of their books because they have so much other stuff to cover.
That could be said of almost any healthy thing.
If you've ever watched James Burke's "Connections" series (and you should - it's excellent), one of the things he mentions is that the introduction of the steam engine increased the genetic diversity in the UK, because now you weren't limited to dating people from your local town or village. You could be 50 miles away in less than a day and meet all-new people.