skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of context: Marjorie Rice achieved minor fame for discovering a number of new ways that (irregular) pentagons can tile the plane -- a surprising feat for an amateur mathematician. You can read more about her on here https://www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-rices-secret-pentago... and more about pentagonal tessellations here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling, along with a history for when the different tessellations were discovered over the past century or so.

Personally, I love this webpage partially because it's just so different than what I'm used to for the pages of mathematicians. It really comes across as made by someone who was extremely talented at math but who only saw it only as a pastime and never bothered to integrate into the mathematical community.
That only means that the matching kernel drivers can't be upstreamed, that doesn't mean you can't forward port the kernel drivers. The kernel drivers are open source.

I personally wouldn't settle for a system with a closed source userspace, but Brakenshire said that you're stuck with an old kernel, which is just not true.
It should be noted that this is an explicit strategy by proponents of the status quo, to make any discussion of the topic so toxic that the topic itself becomes banned.

It's possible to moderate a discussion forum to avoid this, but it requires a high level of involvement from the moderators and a willingness to aggressively recognize and prune divisive commentary regardless of the specific tone or content.
Is Google DNS down?
Why not create something to show us first and put a form there that let us submit our projects? So far i only have a vague idea what this ultimately will be about.
I'm thinking it could be a place to store side projects that allows for people to follow other projects and get updates without sharing email to every project.
i have DIY ortholinear keyboard. 1x1 spacebar, and lots of usefull buttons under my thumb, i was thinking about making it low powered portable device which can work as a regular keyboard, onion or raspberry with small powerbank an 7" screen. I really hate modern laptop keyboards, we can make them so much more usefull and convenient, but yet, all fancy new devices come with ancient typewriter layout which was result compromise resulted from engineering and mechanical challenges.
We have no mechanical challenges now, but still using misaligned, less usable keyboards, why?

Pure opensource device would be really nice, i am not willing to waste money on MS Surface(it can run linux well, and i can use my keyboard with it) or experiment with low powered cheap raspberry, should be enough for typing notes, communication, and vim, something more powerful with proper keyboard, or just a tablet would be perfect for me
Then go offroad. No need for real mountain-mountain biking, just being off the pavement will keep you more busy. Although if you want to ride on the road more, maybe try same techniques as for beginners' meditation?
There will be some of each, but either one results in more jobs for everybody else.
Ostensibly we are at war with concepts like "terror" and to "secure democracy".

In reality, it's used to backup the USD as reserve currency (Saddam switched to EUR as oil currency right before the US invaded Iraq) and to ensure we have our business interests supported around the globe.

Ostensibly this means we, as Americans, have a preeminent place as world citizens, but the reality is that the spoils from the dominant position we enforce is unequally split, and that inequality is further fracturing US society.
The more an idea is operational the more it is correct.
Using Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome and Wayland. Fast and stable.

Before that and a small step to Ubuntu 17.04, I used Wayland with Arch and Gnome. Not that stable experience back then, but now I'd say it's ready for production use, at least if you're using an Intel GPU.
New Android Malware Found in Minecraft Apps on Google Play
Yes, this is exactly what I’ve been thinking. And this is where so many in the media have gotten the notion that Tinder makes it easy for guys to sleep around. Tinder makes it easy for great looking, highly successful guys to sleep around. Everyone else, not so much. All these women are chasing after the elite men, and wonder why they can’t get them to stick.
with AT&T, there is tethering fee on everything. I'm glad that I'm no longer with AT&T though. I switched to Tmobile last summer -- my bill went down from $200/month to $130/month for three unlimited line with 10GB tether/month.
Intro to ARKit with Twilio Video in Swift
Nutritional claims are as fragmented as it comes. Plant based vs Paleo vs Ketogenic vs whatever. All with supporting research! The only commonality most of these share is: refined sugar is a plague.
You can add WiFi in your filters when searching.
Sure, if you simply gave everyone $1 for every dollar they already have, all you do is double prices and change nothing of substance.

But I think the pro-UBI argument would be that you don't need to increase the money supply to do it. About 60% of Federal spending is on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Reducing the spending on these programs, and other inefficient transfers such as welfare and disability will pay for much of UBI, and the rest is paid for by raising taxes. The net outcome is that rich people will pay a bit more to the government than they do now, poor people get a bit more than they do now, but the major effects are 1) inefficient bureaucracy is eliminated, 2) bad incentives are eliminated (such as disability payments forbidding any gainful employment, and 3) the stigma of welfare payments is removed when everyone gets them.

I don't think this will work in the US because 1) there's no political will to reduce existing entitlement programs and 2) there's a lot of resentment in the working class against recipients of entitlements, and 3) racism. However, the argument that UBI will fail because it requires printing money is probably wrong.
I don't know the law enough to say one way or the other, but assuming that you're right...

If I remember correctly, the defendants had run out of money, the private lawyer they hired was increasingly doing things pro-bono (and losing focus because of it), and they had already disrupted their lives for two years. Each court date required hours of travel for both of them and days off work. They'd get there, only to have the prosecution kick the can down the road and have the court date postponed for another few weeks, in which case they'd have to do it all over again.

That they lasted as long as they did is a testament to them, but the system wore even them down.

To add a whole new angle of going after the prosecutors for contempt would have increased the stress on their lives and resources by an order of magnitude.
OK, well, while I'm making proposals, let's go ahead and hire people to be employed by the government instead.
We spent 41% of our GDP on the military during WW2, and we now spend 3.5%.
Swee.LOL- Put a Smile on Someone's Face
> There's no reason online ads shouldn't be regulated just like every other kind of ad

The only things currently regulated like this are "broadcast television, radio, cable and satellite communications"; this doesn't apply to mail advertising which as recently as 2012 people were pointing to as very targeted and having it's own transparency issues. But politicians haven't been super keen to spend tax dollars on dealing with the issues there.

And the proposed regulation doesn't apply to small entities (reported elsewhere), because it's pretty obvious to anyone that this is a burden.

And we have no actual evidence saying this would have prevented anything. The "Islamic Republic of France" ad that got some news traction recently isn't really any more unhinged than what Trump said on national TV.

Axios is right that tech companies will probably go along with it because this is not the environment to fight this sort of things, but this is not objectively good legislation.
"Success is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"
I can't put my finger exactly as to why but his argument reminds me of that part in the book Catch-22 where one person argues that they don't believe in God because the world is so terrible and the other counters that they don't believe in God either - but they don't believe in a good and just God not in an evil and cruel God.

Maybe it's because the logic seems to be that existence is terrible so we're doing the unborn a favor by saving them from it. Given the shortness of our time (something the author mentions) it seems like no great harm is done. And in any case wouldn't it be more fair to give the unborn the opportunity to make the choice of existence or not themselves?
> The "scientific venue" has been corrupted

That's a pretty strong accusation. Do you have any evidence?

Cuddy herself, in the linked article, even asks: "Why not come to a conference or hold a seminar?"

I don't think you're wrong about the lack of quality reviewing, but I also think that blogs and Facebook and articles in pop sci news venues are pretty shitty places to address the quality of editorial review.

And your post demonstrates why: honest mistakes -- or even complete non-mistakes stemming from gaps in established best practices! -- turn into out-right accusations of full on corruption. The comments on NYT demonstrate the same problem from the other side: lots of gender politics when Gelman wasn't motivated by gender, implicitly or otherwise, but rather by the mass appeal of Cuddy's work.

Needless to say, I also think you're massively over-stating the maliciousness of people like Cuddy and Fiske.

> Science was being done sloppily, and Fiske was both a beneficiary of that and in a role where she could have prevented it.

Simmons seems to agree with me that you're really over-reaching here: "The original study wasn’t particularly egregious," he said. "It was published in 2010 before anyone was thinking about this."

There's a huge difference between doing science the way you were trained (but sub-optimally), and outright "corruption".

There's also a HUGE difference between noticing a problem and constructively pushing for more rigor within a sub-community, and going after particular people within that community so harshly you destroy their careers.

The former is great for science. The latter might possibly by great for improving rigor (I'm pessimistic and think it all comes down to incentives, which Gelman et al don't really do much to change). But equivocating bad methodological/statistical training/practice with unethical and even criminal ("corrupt") behavior? That sort of dishonest fire-and-brimstone talk is just as damaging as a lack of rigor.
So are you suggesting that if I (the grandchild of Holocaust survivors) ran a link aggregator site, I would have a moral obligation to let self-declared Nazis who want to exterminate people of my ethnicity use it as a platform to speak about their hatred of people like me?

Or that a rape survivor has an obligation to allow someone to post on their site that there's no such thing as rape and every woman is "asking for it"?

I deeply question your moral framework.
The company "missed out" on the money, not the founders right?
The IPO wasn't with the all of the founders shares.
They may also be restricted on when and how much they can sell.
Part of the value is creating buzz.

If you IPO at 24 and it jumps to 32, hopefully it is still 30 when you can sell. If you IPO at 32 and it drops to 26 cause there is no buzz, you make a lot less when you sell.
How feasible would it be to get like news organizations to use that or something like it?
Yeah, and you can turn off fsync in postgres if you want a blazing fast db that loses your data. :D
- Containers still do have an whole POSIX-ly userland with shell and coreutils.
You can extract every container onto an disk and make an static linux kernel boot it.

What's in a docker image is entirely up to the image creator. Docker containers don't necessarily have to use a complete userland + init system as a base.
The studies on Dual-N-Back increasing IQ have been all over the place. Some positive some negative. With the larger more careful trials coming up negative.

But IQ isn't working memory, attention, or executive function. And the findings on Dual-N-Back and working memory are less ambiguous and more positive.

Also there have been some more interesting studies done on Dual-N-Back in terms of changing Type 1 dopamine receptor density, as well as volume changes in certain parts of the pre-frontal cortex. So it really does seem like it's doing something even if that doesn't translate into an IQ change.
Very cool thanks for sharing!

> Not super practical in terms of battery life

Samsung avoided this problem by requiring that the phone is connected to the dock that is also charging it.
Yeah except McDonalds owns the valuable real estate and pushes off the occupational and downturn risk to the franchisees. The WeWork business model is literally the exact opposite of this. If things go well their landlord makes a windfall on the appreciation. If there's a sharp downturn they're stuck with the lease and no members.

The business model has the potential to be obviously and severely problematic, which is the topic of this post.
> It leaves the impression that McFarlane is a genuine Star Trek fan and The Orville is more an homage than a ripoff

If you didn't realize that you must have done exactly zero research. Notice how he's had the entire cast of TNG on family and has been working with Patrick Stewart for years? Notice the huge numbers of star trek and other sci-fi references spread through family guy?
lol, the things you read on HN, very entertaining.
You should be able to invest in anyone you want without restrictions but more importantly, without manipulation of Finra, the SEC, CapitalIQ, stock transfer agents. And, the DTCC is what everyone keeps its eyes on.
I frequently read https://hackernoon.com/ and https://scotch.io/. Both have "Sign Ups" and comments. Not sure how much community focus is beyond that though.
Well, you get a really low probability of any potential adversaries trying to steal, destroy, or interfere with American interests or its allies. Ask anyone whose lost anything because of a foreign attack or occupation what that's worth.

You also get an unrivaled navy that protects all this global trade.

You get allies in Europe who were able to rebuild under the threat of communist invasion because they didn't have to spend all their efforts maintaining a massive military to futily defend themselves.

You get thousands of nuclear weapons to guarantee that you'll never have a foreign army occupying your neighborhood.
I've found this to be the best iOS app for dual n-back https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iq-boost/id286574399
There is no information whatsoever just a login?
I still think that the Klingons just got plastic surgery after they accidentally turned themselves into human looking peoples in Enterprise.
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Also, learn to discuss.
It has raised the rates from extremely low to very low, which is still keeping rates low.

Now, you can argue that that is in part because a rapid increase to non-low rates would be disruptive given the status quo ante, but that's a justification for keeping rates low, not a rebuttal to the claim that that is what the Fed is doing.
You are strengthening my point, right?

And don't get me wrong, I bike quite often. I find for myself, I basically have to obligate myself to some distance. If I have a bus pass, I'm not doing that 400 ft climb home. If I don't have somewhere to go, I'll just read a book instead. And I claim that I do enjoy biking.
> I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these conflicts of interest.

I think the more logical thing to believe is that it was created to remove the appearance of conflicts of interest for PR purposes and give them plausible deniability.
Word of caution when reviewing this report: it doesn't take into account vblank period. If you hit a key just after a monitor refresh, you're not going to see it until the next refresh cycle which is typically up to 16ms later. This study is concerned with how long it takes to update the frame buffer rather than time-to-visible which is difficult to measure.

That said, there are plans[1] to reduce Alacritty's input latency. Though, I personally use it as a daily driver and have never felt that there was a noticeable input lag.

Once that lands, Alacritty will have similar latency to Terminal.app _and also have_ a 60 Hz refresh rate (the "smooth" feeling), low CPU usage, and much higher throughput.

[1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673
Are you going to eat more food with UBI? Probably not.

Are food prices going to rise if others eat more food? No, we have spare capacity for food production.

Also, a bigger topic, but supply and demand is not linear like they teach in school. Food prices are fairly cheap and stable in America because of excess capacity plus the fact that producers face thin margins plus spoilage. It will take a lot before prices move "commensurately".

This is just one example.
Generations, These are the voyages.
Random sites linked from the first one I can't name, searched with Google or linked into some Cooper Press newsletter.

https://cooperpress.com/publications/
The "commensurate rise in prices" is the tricky part. I think what you would see would be a percentage increase in prices corresponding to the average percentage increase in income. Since UBI is a flat amount, not tied to income, that average percentage is going to be so close to 0 as to be completely irrelevant. Even if it's not close to 0, for low-income (or UBI-only income) households especially, the marginal increase in income should be significantly higher than the marginal increase in prices.
Most people forget that with startups, what you are trying to create is a business... the technology behind is only one element to it.

It is extremely difficult to do good marketing and sales and they did it.

Solve a customer problem while building a healthy business... a success story in my book.
This is my pet hypothesis. Obligating myself to just a 30 minute bike ride home has been hugely successful with giving me "thinking" time. The hard climb sorta destroys this. But overall it works quite well.
Here's the problem:

@media only screen and (min-width : 390px) and (max-width : 509px) {
.comment { max-width: 350px; overflow: auto }
pre { max-width: 260px; }
}
@media only screen and (min-width : 510px) and (max-width : 599px) {
.comment { max-width: 460px; overflow: auto }
pre { max-width: 340px; }
}
@media only screen and (min-width : 600px) and (max-width : 689px) {
.comment { max-width: 540px; overflow: auto }
pre { max-width: 400px; }
}

They are putting max widths on child elements instead of letting the parent control things. It's foolishness.

But then, if you look at the html hacker news generates, it'll put you off your lunch.
I believe the Stonecutters own the trademark on his name
This is the day the tech industry prayed never would happen
But why are we loading even 1MB to display 2K worth of text?
Retrieve the page with a small http client instead of a large browser. e.g., wget, curl, fetch, etc. Save it.

wget -o savedpage.htm https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/wework-a-20-billion-startup-fueled-by-silicon-valley-pixie-dust-1508424483

Delete the Javascript.

sed -i '/<p>/,/<\/p>/!d' savedpage.htm

Open savedpage.htm in a browser.
This bank accepts Bitcoin and ethereum as collateral for fiat loans
General Assembly's bootcamp program probably isn't the best out there, but the company is worth a hell of a lot more than the rest of the bootcamp industry. Just because a business is easy to imitate doesn't mean it's easy to compete at scale. There are plenty of similar set ups to wework in NYC, but they don't have offices in countless other countries and cities. They simply don't have the scale that the wework network already has. Why would I join one of the other NYC ones for a discount on office space when I can gain business from all around the world just by signing into the member network and checking my messages?
Is there a well-cited 1200-1800 word categorical debunking of trickle down economics somewhere on the internet?

Please tell me so that I can bookmark it and paste when I see comments like this on the internet.
Not supposed to prescribe oxy very much either....
>>It's not like the U.K. or France don't care about terrorism--if we weren't in Iraq or Afghanistan, they very well might be.

If US wasn't in Iraq/Afganistan, we wouldn't have the terrorist problem as it exists today at all - maybe it would exist in some other form, but the current threats are pretty much exclusively the result of American thirst for conflict and war around the world. It might be the world police, but it's a world police which actively looks for trouble and causes it too.
I've always thought of life as being a series of opportunities, and depending on how you live your life and how lucky you are, that number differs.

Having opportunities is very different from success though; the successful are those who are smart, clever and quick enough to realize that the opportunity exists, and are diligent enough to actually realize that opportunity. After all, isn't Y-combinator quite literally an incubator of those who have noticed an opportunity and chosen to pursue it?
CryptoPunks art with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain
They only guarantee consistency as long as you don't use them over a network, i.e. communications with the database are always reliable. But once you do use them over a network - CAP theorem comes in and forces you to either use something like two-phase commit or no promises of consistency. Which is the opposite of what his post implied, like there is CAP consistency with those databases. But there never was!

Although I kind of got used to RDBMS crowd not understanding consistency, it's just another technology cult.
This means the company absolutely positively mispriced the offering. The company could have successfully raised nearly 30% more money.
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I read that Canonical didn't like having to fiddle with lightdm to make it work and play well with GNOME shell, and thus Ubuntu 17.10 comes with gdm3. My upgrade went south, so I installed Kubuntu. It's using sddm, which I understand is the successor to kdm. Now I find that Gnome under X just hangs. Does GNOME shell require either gdm or something hacked as Canonical did lightdm to work?
Each news outlet serves some purpose, that's why people bother to maintain it; so it has some degree of editorial policy (determined by the collective action of the editors).

I for one think that I am spending too much time here (relative to the stuff that I learn). (Lets see how long I can keep off site, after all this is adictive ;-)

I would appreciate it if someone would come up with a filter, HN on tech subjects only, and no politics and business stories - a mere title line is not enough to figure out the context (but they do that on purpose, to involve more people that way, don't they :-) actually I guess that would be easy to do with NLP tagging...

One thing that I dislike with both HN and reddit style moderation system is that the subject of the editorial action has no idea that he/she has been edited out. I think that actually gives the pleasant feeling of being in an insane asylum. Anybody can relate ti this sentiment?
The first chemical entity approved by the FDA gets data exclusivity - that is, no other company is allowed to use the originator's data to get their generic approved. I think the standard is 5 years, with rare disease drugs getting 7 year.