skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was asking more about the productivity benefits, versus any performance boost a "made for lisp" ISA might offer...
VueJS v2.5 “Level E” Released
How the Moneywagon project will handle the possibly new BTC ticker symbol
Microsoft proves it can be just as pretentious as Apple
This is as much a threat to Amazon as Microsoft PlaysForSure was to Apple.
Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
FiFo / FreeBSD Jail management on DO in under 30 minutes
Intel Takes First Steps to Universal Quantum Computing
I don't know that the legal system necessarily cares about morality or moral responsibility. It seems like the only criteria that would matter would be legal responsibility, whatever that standard might be.
Can't announce it without taking a bit of a leap of faith, because there can't be a track record before announcement. Intentions are easy, execution is hard. Few bad schools started off with "bad" as a founding principle.
Raspberry Pi laptop lets kids get inside their computer
But your comment almost says it: Whether or not they're actual users isn't a consideration when reporting user numbers.

Are they reporting user numbers or account #s? Is it ok if they generate 1billion accoints themselves? Why/why not? What's different?

Impressions are based on "eyeballs" on ads. Machines look at ads. Customers can project ad blocker %.
> Because it aligns with my experience, ultimately.

The experience of one person over not even a full lifetime?

That's just laughably dumb. I don't mean to be rude but I also don't know what to say to that.
Open Insulin @ Counter Culture Labs: https://experiment.com/projects/open-insulin

If you want to look at templates for your own immunotherapy, CRISPR, optogenetic tools etc.:
https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/

Which, once built can be then be ordered as DNA, shapeways-style using:
https://serotiny.bio/notes/pinecone/

The cure for certain kinds of blindness, just approved by the FDA yesterday is, in total, a well-delivered sequence of ~10,000 base pairs of DNA (mfg cost @ 7¢/bp = $700): http://www.businessinsider.com/spark-therapeutics-hereditary...
I saw truly malicious and dishonest interview reviews written out of spite after a failed interview with the intent to harm both the company and the interviewer.
New Optimizations Improve Deep Learning Frameworks for CPUs
And Gus Levy, of Goldman Sachs fame, called it long-term greedy.
You can buy a fraction of a bitcoin!

People don't seem to get this. Unlike Berkeshire Hathaway or any other stock, you don't have to buy a whole unit. BRKA shares at 6 figures are out of range for most people because you have to buy at least one whole share.

Bitcoin is divisible down to the satoshi-- 100,000,000th of a bitcoin. That's too small to transact in currently, but there's nothing stopping you from buying 0.1 or 0.01 bitcoin.
So, for example if I have 3G and Wi-Fi connections what will be my IP from the server's perspective?
It's pretty funny. Almost all the investment interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum isn't about the technology's potential. It's all just speculation on the current cryptocurrencies as commodities.

Just about everyone asking "should I buy Bitcoin?" is doing so because they want to know how high it will go. They don't really give a shit whether the technology has the potential to disrupt centrally planned economies.

Bitcoin being worth $5,000 right now is all about not being the last guy holding the bag when the value collapses again...
This is why Reddit style voting is super useful. Twitter suffers from a noise problem as a side-effect of focusing so much on newness and sorting by date (I know they've made recent changes here).

This community driven ranking seems like the best solution to low quality bots posting. A modding driven centralized editing process comes with plenty of issues, as we've seen on Reddit. And yes Bot's provide plenty of value, far outweighing some niche political accounts making the rounds.
Could you explain what's a shame? I'm having trouble guessing your point.
I think the same thing could be said of those who refuse to follow the coding standards.
>>> (1)The conversion of D-glucose into metabolic intermediates, namely glycolysis, can be inhibited by compounds like (the highly efficient but rather toxic) 2-deoxy-D-glucose or (the less efficient but completely harmless) D-glucosamine (GlcN). The latter is widely used to treat arthrosis with the questionable claim of inducing cartilage regeneration. Both compounds have been shown to extend C. elegans lifespan (Schulz et al., 2007, Weimer et al., 2014), while only GlcN extends lifespan in rodents (Weimer et al., 2014). Notably, GlcN uptake has been also associated with reduced mortality in a large human cohort (Bell et al., 2012).

So does this mean the glucosamine chondroitin pills I take for my joints will help reduce glucose conversion and extend my lifespan?
Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments
On top of that, we're not just talking about pro-Trump, anti-Clinton ads. Some of the Russian ads were clearly designed to incite racism[1,2]. There was an anti-Islam rally in Houston[3], organized by a Facebook group called "Heart of Texas", which was later revealed to be a fake account operating out of Russia.

This isn't just an abstract game of geopolitics, they're literally trying to incite racial violence.

1: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/353480-report-russian-b...

2: https://www.recode.net/2017/10/7/16439936/congressional-blac...

3: https://thinkprogress.org/armed-white-supremacist-protest-or...
Rumors Say Apple's iPhone X Launch Will Be Delayed – What's Really Going On?
Waste of a read! Reasoning that going from many input nodes to few output nodes results in compression (or shedding of nonessential data) isn't a brilliant theory, it's common sense.

The author even beats the dead horse of AI being a potential existential threat.
By decentralizing you have to expose more things for interaction with different services leaving you more entry-points for a potential attack.
Nah, it just does that sometimes. I got it at 35 and it started to wear off 6 years later.
My company has two departments, a lot of amazon turk like manual labor for things that haven't been automated yet, and a dev team automating the crap out of everything. Dev is pretty good to work, most of the time. Manual labor department is hell on earth. Reading glassdoor, the reviews are 95% negative from the manual labor department, mixed with reviews from people we turned down during interviews (our interview process used to be horrible), and about two bad reviews from previous devs. One who was let go for basically being as asshole (bad hire, not really his fault, life just got hard and he was young), and one that had some legitimate complaints.

(shrug)
So BTC is more like gold then, but with "fiat" value. It's an amazing experiment from computational/cryptographic point of view for sure. The greedy madness around it will cause a lot of troubles though; I've heard people taking 2nd mortgages and going heavily in debt to buy BTCs...
How does accounting reconcile users who have ad blocking enabled? Do they even bother?
With NLP and ML any company can know who wrote what review if they wanted to. They have all your emails and thus writing style is easily ascertained.
That sounds like one of the more striking cases of something well-intentioned going horribly awry due to perverse incentives, at least on an individual scale.

Do you know which films?
It's not a special case - you can't convict somebody of a felony murder if there was no intent to kill and it happened by accident. I.e. if you were standing on a ladder, and it suddenly collapsed and you fell on top of somebody and that person died, it's not a murder. Even if a car is not involved.
It could also be streamlined by just understanding your key metrics and visualising those over spunking out chart porn.

Adding magic into the mix hoping to surface the right thing at the right time but not being entirely sure that would be the case seems like solving a problem of unknowns by hoping that adding new unknowns will cancel out the old ones.
They do. They're just not on the robber barron level of the commercial banks, which steal truly unholy amounts of money from American citizens.

Reasonable people have put the cost of the financial crisis at 6-30 trillion, or more (6 being the lower bound of the Fed's very own estimate). The higher figure is $93,000/per citizen, and it very will could be more than that.(1)

That is only the start of the story. Ever wonder why your money devalues every day? That value is not magically disappearing due to some mystical force called inflation: someone is capturing that value.

Thanks to High Priest of the Harvard-Wall Street Order, Gregory Mankiw, the Fed even has an influential academic paper that craftily provides a logical dogma to minimize theft through seignorage, and how muxh the public really is being taken for.

There are good reasons people from Aaron Swarz to Milton Friedman really, really wanted to get rid of the Fed.

1-https://www.cnbc.com/id/101022718
Stretchable Electronics to Top $1B by 2030
Ranked by value. I don't get how "mere speculation" is considered a bad thing, or makes bitcoin irrelevant. IF it's digital gold right now, fine. Its gold that costs nothing to store, and very little to transport, unlike actual gold.

Gold has a market cap of $8T. If that's the use case bitcoin ever has, it will still ultimately be worth $380k each if it grows to bitcoins size... and it has several advantages over gold.

Is gold worthless because its "merely speculative"??
How do we know if they won't report the extent of the disease? And we're not even confident they know the extent. If they don't know the extent, they couldn't have made an informed judgement.
transactions are limited to ~10/s
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At high volumes, this will approach the petabyte scale

This is a big reason why many people want to keep the transaction size small. Currently, hard drive size is expanding faster than the block chain.
Oh, for sure :) It was just an arbitrary number I picked to illustrate the point.
> Maybe this will let me live vicariously through someone who has actually built the project I always dream of creating in my free time.

You too!?
Computational Geometry: Set Operations on Polytopes
Bitcoin has massive long term issues of value storage vs. 50.01% attacks.

With capped coins, transaction fees must be large enough to prevent major miners from defecting. So, they need to support large number of transactions to have a stable value store.
Hmmm that's too bad, I'd like a python-flavoured lisp. That is a relatively fast functional language that replaces most of the brackets with indentation.

Any suggestions?
Olimex DIY laptop TERES-I released
No, I think the difference gp ignores is that they could either protect false negative real users, and eat a loss for the good of those, vs. ignore real users getting squeezed and boost stock price by...? This is where it gets fuzzy.
Cisco Stretches ACI Network Fabrics, Eases Management
100 million satoshi to a penny.

I don't really know what the ultimate value of bitcoin will be-- really determines on how well it resists attacks, and what level of services are built on top of it.

It's still the very early days.
$5000.
Last interview I had contained a take home test, it was for a senior position.

The test was designed to be a 6 hours task. I spent a Saturday on it (with regular pauses to go out a bit, play games, watch tv, etc)

I got the job. I have started there very recently so I can't really speak about the amount of work / week in that place.

Again, compared to a very skilled friend who had to cram for 2 hours each evening for a couple of months (and speaking with other people I know having gone through that, it seems pretty standard), I really see my time investment as ridiculously less than an on-site whiteboard.
Nicolas Bourbaki
In German but here is a DIY dentist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrbyL6yMyn0
Thanks, that was an excellent answer.
Show HN: RepoYouMayLike – an experiment in GitHub projects recommendation
IBM Combines PowerAI, Data Science Experience in Enterprise AI Push
Algorithm Design: Parallel and Sequential
Some opinions on this article are naive but I do agree regulation is an important step forward. Unless there is regulation like the Fiduciary Rule in place for tech companies, they can say "we are making the world a better place" however and whenever they like but they are not obliged to actually do it. These companies will be your friend if there are economic incentive to do so, or it would incur legal costs if they weren't to comply to their role as a fiduciary to their clients.
How Will Banking and Credit Work in a CryptoCurrency Economy?
> We consider all social media activity by our journalists to come under this policy. While you may think that your Facebook page, Twitter feed, Instagram, Snapchat or other social media accounts are private zones, separate from your role at The Times, in fact everything we post or "like" online is to some degree public.

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in fact everything we post or "like" online is to some degree public.
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This is good advice for everyone.

In fact, I'm not sure if 'post or "like"' isn't even a too narrow definition. For example "stories clicked" is probably a much more interesting metric than "likes", and we can never be sure that this data doesn't become public.
viz.js (https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js demo at http://viz-js.com/) is graphviz compiled to JS using emscripten. graphviz-d3-renderer (https://github.com/mstefaniuk/graph-viz-d3-js demo at http://graphviz.it/) uses viz.js to render to (x)dot format, then parse that so you can use d3 on top of it. Using those two, you should be able to leverage the layout smarts of graphviz with the presentation smarts of d3.
Agreed that the article is a little too flattering to his ego, but what about people desperate for medical aid, can't afford it, and would probably end up with pain/death without this as an alternative? What should they do?
I'm guessing a lot of murders go down among gangsters and within bad neighborhoods. Terrorism, on the other hand, deliberately targets places where middle class (and tourists) congregate.
If gmail can spam filter emails, why can't Twitter do the same for bots?
Regardless of the number of times UPS drivers have been filmed just throwing a package over a fence or lobbing it onto a veranda rather than actually walking up the path?

My experience has been far better with Amazon's deliverers than with shipping companies. I even had one who left a package under my doormat early in the morning and then noticed our lights come on so she came back to let us know it was there.

With UPS, it's more likely I check my tracking number after being home all day and see it go from 'out for delivery' to 'waiting for pickup at UPS store' with no notification. They don't even make the attempt to deliver it, and that makes things less efficient (loading the truck up just to unload it again, making me wait all morning just to have to go to the store anyway, etc.)

So yeah, personally it makes much more sense to me from all kinds of angles for Amazon to handle this stuff directly rather than deal with UPS or Fedex. Those companies are fine for getting a package from me to someone in Halifax, but for getting something from Amazon's warehouse an hour away to my doorstep, it makes no sense.
Erich Fromm's quote about rational VS irrational authority is helpful: http://fromm-online.org/en/autoritaet/
Google "learning xor".
Sure, but Microsoft starts first with same label on Windows 10.
It's so frustrating because I'm trying to genuinely engage people with the opposing opinion on Twitter, and sometimes I have real discussions, but easily 50% of the time I realize I'm dealing with a bot. Or a troll. I can't really tell the difference anymore.
Negligence has a clear definition. The driver who ran me over, in a bike lane, didn't see me because they didn't bother to look. That's negligence, not an accident.

The issue at hand is that while the vast majority of drivers injuring cyclists/pedestrians are negligent, less than 1% are charged with careless or negligent driving (source: the article we're discussing).
> I wonder how "Wall Street is not your friend" would play in the NY Times.

That's exactly what I had in mind when I was reading the article!
Businesses are in existence to make money, it's up to us (which includes govt. regulations) to reign them in when necessary. This shouldn't be a surprise that businesses are exploiting the masses.
Wozniak has been a rampant self-promoter for years so this isn't a surprise to me at all. He'll put his name on anything.

https://www.techinasia.com/talk/steve-wozniak-walking-billbo...
I mean to say all of those pro Trump bots organizing rallies for him in America out of Russia ;) [0]

[0] http://thehill.com/policy/technology/351557-russian-actors-m...
Mastodon 101: A Queer-Friendly Social Network You’re Gonna Like a Lot
Global variables everywhere. No tests or test coverage.

Website for product says: More than 50,000 enterprises and startups use Cloudboost. Including: Sony, Bank of America, Adobe, Hersey, and Coca-Cola.

I'm just not sure the authors of this library are being forthright about it's market and capabilities.
Vs the classical conservative world view in which order, even if it's unjust, is usually better for everyone, even the people on the bottom, than chaos; and that dismantling power structures, if done suddenly or without care, is more likely to result in chaos than in a new, more just, order. I've been wondering lately if there is room for the notion of a conservative anarchist, who questions hierarchy but dismantles carefully and incrementally.
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Exactly. At the end of the day, if the problem is not handled, the entire house of cards collapses. At some point, your users abandon your product over the bad UX. At some point before this abandonment, it becomes clear these consumers are looking for more - users are just now starting down that road, I would say. Ball is basically in Twitter's court at this point. Will they adapt? We will see!
It's a pretty multidisciplinary company. What I mean is if you're interested in life as a software engineer it's going to be a lot different than life for a bench biologist. There's no roulette involved, but it's not always obvious which is which from the reviews.
If they did that, then wouldn't normal people just claim that their accounts were bots, and then they wouldn't be served ads anymore?
Not sure what this other guy will say, but for the vast majority of people it is for major weight loss, not necessarily lifestyle or belief that it is a "superior" health approach. This is my experience from Reddit's keto and loseit communities anyway.
It's not really good for the random folks either; those jobs pay shit wages and offer no benefits
The question "what do you want their customer service to do better" misses the point: the person doesn't want to have to call customer service in the first place to get a replacement product that shouldn't have gone missing in the first place.
Twitter needs a "real name" policy, like Facebook.
Synthesizing some simpler drugs sounds feasible even with amateur equipment, but still far from trivial. But I can't see that working reliably without the ability to do proper analytics on all steps. And regular people don't just have an NMR spectrometer at home.

Chemical reactions usually don't have a single product, other side reactions are possible. And they also don't use up 100% of the educt, so you have to get rid of that as well. Purifying your products and making sure they're actually what you want is essential.

Getting the dose right is also hard if you don't know how pure your product is, and if you don't have analytical scales (or work at a very large scale that a kitchen scale is enough).
What if several men choose not to impregnate any women?

Woops there goes your one-liner dismissal of an entire concept?
> Both parties benefit from divisive speech.

This is correct until you ask "how much" does one benefit from divisive speech.

There is one nationalist branch of the Owner's Party of America, and the other is Democrat.
That looks to be just an internship.
I'm also a little confused as to why colorizations always aim to restore color to the equivalent of a faded color negative, with muted tonality and grain. Human logic is funny.

I always assumed that if you tried to use "full color" it would look weird, since the photos themselves usually are quite faded and grainy.
Has Hy gotten the let special form working yet? Last I looked, there was a ton of conversation over let not working right/at all, which seems like a big sticking point.
On Linux, I'd really love a caching resolver that saves its cache persistently. I don't understand why the machine's power-on state has anything to do with the validity of the DNS cache; if the entries were good at shutdown time they ought to be good enough in a few seconds when I boot again.
You don't need to get a job delivering packages to rob someone's house.
Design collective teamLab wants to turn the world into a work of art UK
Intent to defraud would be clear if they generated a billion new, fake accounts.
An initial pipeline could be built with a lower target speed. This would postpone some of the potential challenges with regard to heat dissipation, and also route selection.

For example, you wouldn't have to worry so much about tunneling under a mountain to ameliorate the G-forces if you are traveling more slowly. Once you prove out the route (which could still be competitive with any existing train service), you incrementally build tunnels and modify the route to improve your target speed.

(As for heat discharge, Im pretty sure that was addressed in EM's original paper - dumping the excess heat into an on-board water tank which is exchanged at the end of the ride, or are you referring to something else?)
The same could be said for the Huntington's Disease test, which has been around for a long time.

It's difficult for potential sufferers of Huntington's Disease to decide whether they want the test. Some do and others do not, but most potential Huntington's Disease sufferers are happy that the test is available.
Heh, maybe you'll get a kick out of http://nand2tetris.org/ (if you haven't come across it already). I finally finished part 1 of the course (implementing the Hack machine) and it was one of the best and most challenging learning experiences I've ever had. My plan is to do part 2 (VM, high level language, OS) with Lisp instead of the language they implement. That's been the plan for the last 6 months, anyway...
It seems to me that most appliances are essentially disposable these days.

I'm considering Speed Queen for the laundry because they have a solid warranty and proclaim to be built to last.
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That was a bit tongue in cheek, it's probably the Foundation. The documentation doesn't specify really how it's done, only that the nodes "authenticate out of band" to determine state when necessary.