skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you said still falls quite short of a literal pyramid scheme, which has a pretty specific definition. There is no central organization to recruit new members. People that buy bitcoin receive a real, usable product. Every person holding bitcoin profits when the price goes up. This is all in stark contrast to a true pyramid.

The way specific ICOs are structured, I could see an argument for some kind of pyramid; but "bitcoin is a pyramid scheme" is easily proved false.
Obviously, any falsey value triggers the "idiomatic" contains_zero function:

[1, False, 3]
[1, '', 3]
[1, None, 3]
[1, [], 3]

This seems like it could only make bugs harder to track down, yet this is often touted as the Pythonic way. What's the benefit of this approach?
The SEC said any virtual coins or tokens bought by investors through an ICO were subject to the same laws governing the sale of stocks and shares sold via mainstream stock markets.

I thought the whole point of crypto currency was that it WASN'T regulated and so how is the government able to do this, let alone say this with any authority?
What's even harder to wrap my head around is that according to this survey around 15% of people at Netflix think they're not compensated fairly. What do they want? 400k? 500k? Would a salary of a million dollars a year be enough?
This is good, but simplistic.

Firstly the downfall in the geocities-web came in many phases:

1. Spam Email Phase

2. Phishing / Nigerian phase

3. Popup phase

4. Autoplaying Flash/ActiveX phase

5. Pagerank phase (forums being ruined until rel=nofollow)

Now google, previously the main gateway to discovery, is pretty much useless for discovering new non-commercial content.

The way this could go away is only from a market shift; deleting your facebook won't bring back geocities. The fact is, if I had a geocities page it'd be undiscoverable due to pagerank, so I have no incentive to publish unless I have another avenue of attention (resume, Hn profile).

Can a non-commercial search engine ever exist? I suppose reddit/HN voting is one semi-successful method of content ranking...
I agree there are red flags. I didn't say it wasn't a ponzi scheme, I said it wasn't a ponzi scheme "exactly". There is a unique difference with bitconnect, where the value is backed by a real coin on a publicly traded blockchain.

I'm saying it's NOT a scam, I'm just saying we don't know... it's something new that we haven't seen before and it's an interesting discussion.

1% payouts aren't all that crazy when they're holding bitcoin (up 10% from yesterday) and they're holding their own coin (up 8% from yesterday).
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Containers are not about safety or lightness IMO. Rather, the reasons I prefer them are better insight and usability. Since the same kernel is running multiple applications, it has insight into how much RAM has been requested, and how much CPU is being used, and can thus be more efficient in packing processes onto nodes. If you try to build this with unikernels, you will end up turning your hypervisor into a de facto kernel. As it is, hypervisors simply preallocate resources and in pretty much every case must overprovision for peak usage, which requires more unused capacity.

As for usability, I mean that you get many of the benefits of VMs (namespaces and resource constraints), but still with the added benefit of the kernel introspection.
Every single thing you mentioned benefits from increases in efficiency that drive down the cost of these pursuits, making them accessible to more people.
Indeed. To indent properly you need to know the schema. The schema tells you to which element you may add or remove white-space.
Also some ... shall we say less than fair counties and states do things like "voter registration is only available at DMV X in OtherSideOfStateTown on the third Tuesday of the month between 1400 and 1430".

I wouldn't dare suggest this was a way of specifically trying to disenfranchise the poorer, Democrat-leaning demographic.
Monero is a novel codebase. Not a fork of Bitcoin
Hah, I didn't even know that it never happened. Goes to show the relative utility of map/filter vs comprehensions...
"...for some reason:" - they shouldn't be allowed to destroy such an important monument to satisfy their curiosity.
Not more, afaik, although some headlines seem to have reported it. All I know is Samsung is happy no matter if you buy an S8 or an X.
My previous attempt at a pithy complaint pointing out the license of this project was flagged, so I will attempt to provide a bit more value:

This is a great idea and would be nice even just as an art project but unfortunately I can't do much personally useful with it.

The choice is 100% up to the author and I respect how they avoid losing control of their IP. It is interesting to see the uptake and I wonder how many project using this tool are in violation of the license.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
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just FYI, HN doesn’t allow deleting or editing posts after a very short window. maybe you know this, and I doubt you’ll face consequences for this confession of “evading state control,” but seems like a worthwhile caveat in context.
Thinking about how you would shard your data is hardly over engineering. On some storage systems you are forced to anyway: Cassandra, dynamodb.

And the cost of building the solution from the onset is hardly a killer. The pain usually comes from operational complexity.
Most of it ok, but the notion of truthiness and falsiness being pythonic (or even allowed!) was python's billion dollar mistake.

It's a magnet for bugs (e.g. stock items with a price of zero being treated as items with no price at all).
I don't know. Not a scooby.

What I know is that Google will store that data point indefinitely and will correlate it with a near-infinite number of other data points to generate conclusions about me. Whether those conclusions are right or wrong doesn't even matter.

They'll also make these data points and conclusions available to intelligence agencies around the world. Which might use it to damage me as part of the ongoing cyber war or if it's my own country's intelligence agency, then they might use it against me, in case I'm unpleasant for the reigning government.

I consider something safe when I know that it's safe, not when I don't know it to be unsafe.
A deep cave structure on the moon, and large triangles formed into the lunarscape visible from telescope on earth pointing towards the entrance. Bonus: You'll probably spur space development technology faster than normal for any civilization that can see it.
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> A pyramid scheme involves some form of active (fraudulent) recruitment to help increase the price of the asset. Bitcoin doesn't have this.

Haha, have you ever looked at what Bitcoin owners/speculaters post online?
I never got into the pre-web stuff, so I don't know exactly what the differences are.
Don't those things still exist? Isn't the comment section of this HN post a form of async, text-only communication?
I'm not sure we have the same definition of boredom: I can't be bored when left to my own thoughts without external stimuli (which is precious time, you need to allow yourself to have time to "do nothing", otherwise you're only ever reacting to events), on the contrary.

The only time I can experience the brain-dead zombie state that is boredom is when I have to pay attention to a mind-numbingly inefficient task I am powerless to improve, like passively listening for hours to an auditorium university lecture that makes the mind rebel against the inefficiency (despite I love learning, but using other means).

Frustration seems more like one that stimulates creativity as it motivates to find workarounds or new directions.
I think this is generally true of languages with powerful metaprogramming facilities. I could be totally happy writing a complex app with Common Lisp, but I probably wouldn't want to debug someone else's code with it.
Oh dear. This is a common problem. Classical thermodynamics is a theory in its own right. Statistical mechanics is used to bridge microscopic structure to thermodynamic properties.

Unfortunately, physicists don't learn thermodynamics. It's pretty much only taught to mechanical and chemical engineers.
Google trends can be quite hard to read - that search term will include Angular 1, which is far larger than Angular 5.

Github stars is a more precise metric. There, react has 80K, Vue is close with 72K (and gaining ground), and both are far ahead of angular on 30K (as of early November 2017).

https://github.com/vuejs/vue
https://github.com/facebook/react
https://github.com/angular/angular
They exist, as do mechanical typewriters and bulletin board systems, but most people don't use them. The web "won" long ago, and newsgroups and mailing lists are now mostly a historical curiosity.
Yes, they're both very understandable. Sorry about your mental blocks.
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It's fine to make a video, but if your work is serious at all, it should also be in written text. It's much quicker to read than listen to someone talk. I'm sure there are exceptions where video format makes more sense, but, as a rule, it's incredibly stupid.
It was proposed to do that with all three, and they walked it back to just reduce because there was a huge outcry.
Why is not swearing a virtue?
Also forums for special interests. (Outgrowth of a bulletin board.)
Some do not even abuse their data and users.
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The classical [statistical mechanics] theory is based on classical harmonic oscillators (which can have any frequency/energy). Quantization is introduced by Plank in 1900.
What does this mean?

> Create a multitude of reasons for consumers, of all types, to justify spending $1,000 on a phone. Although it’s a subsidized cost, many consumers have not considered the true cost of their iPhone ever. Now, with many press outlets leading with the $1,000 total cost angle, Apple needs to combat that perception.

Who is subsidising the costs of iPhones? Apple? Do they sell them at a loss? And why would consumers want to consider the true cost if they never have to pay it themselves?
It's not unsolvable though. HN is an example of a technology that shapes the rules of the forum in such a way that a top spot cannot be purchased.

Forum design is the new frontier.
> The number of people saying that this is a clever workaround and agreeing with the people putting in the bug reports is very disheartening to see on HN

Huh? I've been through this entire thread and I haven't seen anyone suggest that this is acceptable behavior; even in the heavily-downvoted comments. It's mostly just people laughing at the lengths this site went to to shoot itself in the foot.
Literally just used TW to pay an international contractor in ~30 seconds. From a customer standpoint, this is great news. Well wishes to these folks.
> There is a unique difference with bitconnect, where the value is backed by a real coin on a publicly traded blockchain

Ponzi mechanics have nothing to do with how the scheme's reserves are held.

> it's something new that we haven't seen before

Unfortunately, it's not. It's either a scam or a scheme so incompetent that it is practically identical to a scam.
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I wonder if terminal apps hook into the same security input APIs from the OS that browsers are using for password inputs.
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I don't think the Cook/Jobs comparison is fair.

It's always been well understood the the same people who are typically good are starting companies aren't typically the best people to run them once they achieve a certain scale.
Do you understand what it does? Do you understand the common ways it can fail? When it does eventually fail, can you figure out how to fix it?
Are there any downsides to me using this to build my own archiver?
How was the contributor in this case "denigrated"? There's a difference between calling someone stupid and calling their actions stupid. I've seen plenty of the latter from Linus, but never the former.
How are "three generations of iphones" "cannibalizing each other and lack any real differences" ? Care to elaborate?
I love Django's classed based views, though I could see how they would be annoying if you aren't steeped in Python's multiple inheritance.

Granted, If it weren't for Pycharm's command+click to open up where an object was defined I don't think I would like them quite as much. But being able to quickly walk the inheritance path, and finding simple clear code in small chunks is very nice.
If you worked at Netflix and everyone around you made a million whilst you made half a million, you might give such an answer on a survey, and it probably wouldn't change with the absolute amounts.
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This is a poignant account, and I'm very happy she wrote it. Perhaps it's a penchant for hyperbole, but if anything, I'm struck by how much worse this could have been. From the article:

I walked away without fanfare, quietly slipping into a
new professional life that made me feel supremely
lucky, like I’d fallen hard but landed on a soft
cushion that I was surprised to find beneath me.

In a similar situation, "most people" would't have been able to pay of $250k of debt in 2.5 years. Which only makes her advice more important. So take care of yourself.
Hi just launched this API. So would love to get feedback like what could be improved or what is missing. Is a first version so any kind comments are welcome!
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Some of the examples in the book violate the Zen of Python. So I wouldn't even call them pythonic or idiomatic in the first place.

E.g.:

`contains_zero` violates "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

`should_raise_shields` violate "Explicit is better than implicit."

`linsolve` and `contains_duplicate` violate "Readability counts."
sidebar: lots of easy to enjoy things are implemented in 'slow' interpreted languages. This site, for one.
Like I said, the usual use of the 'Pythonic' idiom within the Python community is prefixed by "un" and used pejoratively. One aspect of the perniciousness of 'Pythonic' is that it promotes the tribalist ideal of specializing in languages. For someone optimizing for readable libraries, Smalltalk is probably a better option.
> I thought the whole point of crypto currency was that it WASN'T regulated

That's what the people with a monetary or ideological investment in cryptocurrencies say, because of course they would.
Amazing this stuff still yields secrets after thousands of years. Meanwhile the 3.5" floppy disks in my parents attic on which I've kept all my teenage Turbo Pascal source code have long lost all their data.
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Rand's epistemology is shallow and uninformed itself, so it seems to work out.
People were saying bitcoin was in a bubble when it went up to $50. People who say this don't understand that a new economy is emerging, an economy that exists only on the blockchain. Traditional economies will be left behind.

Therefore, I do agree that the stock market is in a bubble -- in that sense the USD is in a bubble. It's not going to burst anytime soon, but do yourself a favor and hedge your bets... pick up some bitcoin so you've got a stake in the new economy when your value in the existing one crashes (you don't have to buy an entire coin).
White box adversarial examples are not new. The novelty here is producing physical objects that behave like adversarial examples.
Part of the point of this plugin is to blend in if desired. If it's standing alone, it's kind of hard to do that. Baked into a web server is a natural choice.
So we should be using 10 second videos instead of images to train AI?
Why would I want to use redis?

My whole point is that I want to simplify my setup, so that I don't need tons of third party servers.
I would argue my version scales more gracefully.

How would you write this, for example?

LET(('a', 2,
'b', lambda o: o.a + 1),
'c', lambda o: [i * i for i in range(o.b)]),
lambda o: o.c)

=> [0 1 4]
Someone HAD to get the Tulip comment out of the way, I saw pyramid schemes mentioned above, but did anyone call it a Ponzi in this thread yet?
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Yikes, someone sounds bitter.
> walking to a coffee shop

That's no reason to actually buy coffee though. You can just take a walk in the middle of the day.
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I take it seriously enough that I hold my breath while walking past someone smoking.
You can call the API from anywhere, from resource-constrained servers, Docker containers that cannot run headless Chrome, JavaScript on a website etc. Also, we'll keep adding new features to this act to make it worthwhile to use it, e.g. retries on failures, posting of the file to some URL etc.
Take a look at the new one plus phone that is about to be released.

It is heavily.implied that it will have a headphone jack. Should be sub 600$ and if my OP3T is any indication the software experience and lasting ability of their devices certainly up there with any other major manufacturer.

Cons: Chinese company, so you never know who is looking at your data. They do let you root and unlock bootloaders, though. So there is that.

You need to install the Google pixel camera app to get camera performance that matches other flagships. Thankfully my 3T got the app ported without root and I would expect the same for the new upcoming phone.
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You can always use a screen reader to automatically have it read the text to you, and it works well enough.

I can’t have an OCR system automatically translate a video into text.
I will never understand why this has been downvoted.
Ask HN: Rstudio or ESS (Emacs)?
Last year I had been using rstudio with R markdown, but since I've become a emacs enthusiast. I found that there is a package called ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics).

I've been reading some of its documentation, but I would like to know your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using each one?

I've also seen that its possible to use org-mode with R

For reference, I found this:

- http://www.danielallington.net/2017/05/rstudio-jupyter-and-emacs-nothing-that-works-properly-is-easy-to-use-and-nothing-that-is-easy-to-use-works-properly/
Until the Circus pauses or the Bread runs out. Then shit hits the fan...

I often wonder if The Government shut down Starbucks and Candy Crush, how many days it would be before a full revolution.
Distracted is probably a worse state than bored, over the long run.

Distracted means never dealing with any of the difficult aspects of being a person. With bored, at least, you might get around to looking at some of that.
I believe Human brain also reuses abstract concepts it learn from other data. Such as eyes. So when a new animal is shown its very easy to find eyes on it and does not need another million images of that new animal to detect it's eyes.

We need a SpaceX of Deep Learning, where a lot of learning is reused and linked in creating much larger web of knowledge about the world.
Also if you can't access this command for whatever reason, another option is to open the print dialog box in Chrome and set the destination to "Save as PDF" and it will work. You'll even get to see a preview. It's very useful for 1 off saves where you want to consume a really long post offline in a PDF viewer.
I would say those two examples are not very Pythonic because they are overly abstracted.
But if I give you a single image of a scene with an object you’ve never seen before, you’ll likely be able to instantly segment it, describe it, and relate it to things you do know.
It is a sharp panel, but they are using the phone product peipe of nextbit , the mobile phone company that Razor acquired last year.
I agree with your point about 'supposedly' light weight. and its lot clear how much weight really costs the kernel's user.

but I'm pretty reluctant to agree that 'last years linux with a random bunch of patches' is the ultimate solution, or even the best solution available today.

the one really interesting thing that VMs give you is an abstract diver model. it might not be the absolute best or higher performance, but if a kernel or unikernel is designed only to be run in an VM environment, on a server, then the giant mass of buggy drivers just goes away. It may even be possible in some circumstances to run with just a VM network device and nothing else.

I personally think there is some fruitful work to be done around the kernel interface to admit better scheduling of i/o in highly thread-parallel environment.

But I have to imagine there are some radically improved security architectures for server-in-a-VM that doesn't involve a Linux userland, firewall, package manager, etc etc
To use a math analogy, I think of idioms as solutions to generalized coding problems. If you recognize your situation as a special case of the general form you can save yourself some time thinking through the implementation and make it easier to understand. Great. But also like math, you can get yourself into trouble trying to frame something in terms of a general case that doesn't actually fit, suddenly the plumbing is more complex than the original problem. The same thing plays itself out at a higher level with design patterns. The (obvious) point is not to force a solution into an abstract pattern at the expense of clarity, because that's the reason we like abstract patterns in the first place.
Well if a lot of people were willing to pay more for DRM-free, or if people avoided DRM'ed content, it would make business sense to do that. Its easier to effect change from the bottom up, than demanding a company change their policies just because you disagree with them. For example, EMI experimented with selling their entire catalog DRM-free on itunes for 30 cents more per track in 2007. I don't think it turned out well for them. That's the only one I remember off the top of my head. Seems like you're interested in this topic so you may have other examples.
I bought in slightly after you but sold later (in at ~$2.5k, out at ~$4.4k or so for 1 BTC). It's so easy to get caught up in it and think "man, if I had just bought 10x as much and sold now, I'd have so much more!"

I also sold right before that dip to $3k for several weeks, I could have just as easily have lost half my gains.
Which I think is a big mistake, because even if it ends up being used in a low traffic site, it ends up complicating the installation process. Where as a compiled language not only would run fast but also have a very simple setup: just copy over the exe and run it. Nothing to configure. No dependencies to install.