skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it would be cool if Bitcoin didn't require throwaway computation

Sure, but that's a technology that does not exist. If you can figure out how to create a blockchain-like concept, where the 'proof of work' actually contributes to humanity, you have invented the next big thing.

Edit: Reading the comments below me, it looks like this is a space that is being actively explored. Exciting!
I think of the modern open plan office as a place optimized for collaboration, like a forum, rather than a place optimized for heads-down tasks. You can make it work a bit better for the latter (noise canceling headphones), but it isn't optimized for it. People still need to gather for a lot of collaborative work, even if it isn't every day. It helps us keep calibrated to our work environment, and we need better mass transit tech and systems to facilitate that.

Working alone (possibly remotely) is probably more optimal for accomplishing things that can be done without casual information sharing, like implementing a solution to a well defined problem in a well understood domain. You can create a forum-like experience through communication technologies, but it is often suboptimal for the kind of interactions required vs in person communication.

I don't know of many professional or technical jobs that don't involve both modes of operation, and we should be investing in systems and technologies that support both.

However, even if communication tech improves enough to nullify the difference in value with meeting in person, people will want to work in person with others, because they are people.

And even if transit tech nullifies the inconvenience of an office commute, people will still need solitary work space and time, because they are people.
Any mention of alternatives is anathema to open source READMEs. This is why the "awesome list of " directories wind up being so useful.

Edit: Useful as in "knowing is half the battle". Being able to make an informed choice is worth something, even if it takes extra effort to filter back down.
Hicks said the metal of the screwdriver contacted the positive side of the fuse and also the fuse’s grounded metal holder, causing a short circuit that sent electricity flowing to unintended places.

Is there some company out there making non-conductive screwdrivers designed for electrical work? I can understand that maybe the materials science to make strong plastic screwdrivers didn't exist in the 1950s, but surely they exist today, right?
check out https://pathwaysystems.com/video
(CTO here) In addition to a very human-usable CLI we have an EC2 agent which will automatically diagram you EC2 resources. Our system then let's you interact with the results using graph queries to analyze and understand it.
Likely due to the Anguilla top-level domain. I think it's quite silly to block websites based on the country of their registrar, but unfortunately that kind of thinking is quite common.
When sued by an entity with no assets to speak of that uses its funds to fund suing other parties you are probably not getting your money back no matter what it says.
Isn't that the premise of Ethereum?
Dennett's “From Bacteria to Bach and Back” is one long circular argument [pdf]
> Their system is explicitly for people that don’t trust Google.

Yes, and LineageOS is not. LinesageOS has an interest in maintaining the ability to run Google blobs and accepting such a patch might potentially harm that interest.

Instead of accepting that, this project acts all butt hurt and whines that LinesageOS's position is inconceivable.
To be fair I haven't really used Kotlin yet, but from my brief understanding the type system isn't quite as powerful, which is something I really like about Scala.
"PIC", pilot in control, refers to the pilot actually flying the plane. Not the command or seniority structure amongst pilots.

There were a Captain and two co-pilots aboard AF445. The junior co-pilot was PIC for much of the incident.
This is the first I've read of the glass back. Can anyone suggest a purpose for this other than making it easier to break?
What tasks do you automate as an entrepreneur to increase productivity?
If it's exactly reproducible on different hardware and software configurations, as seems to be one of the goals, that alone would be a useful improvement on IEEE754.
oh, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

"The two 3–4-megaton MK. 39 nuclear bombs separated from the gyrating aircraft as it broke up between 1,000 and 2,000 feet (300 and 610 m)."

For reference, Little Boy's (Hiroshima) yield was 15 kilotons.
PostgreSQL being the one noteworthy: http://modern-sql.com/feature/with/performance
Wpf? Does that mean it might be possible to target windows 7?
Not to forget SQLite: https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html
Right, I was thinking of making the same point.

The initially-designated co-pilot also was virtually fully occupied simply clearing alerts from the aircraft's control and diagnostics systems -- for about 45 minutes as I recall.

That's a near-deadly case of TMI, I suspect.
Voice input is good for people who have clear sounding voice and generic American accent. Which is maybe 5% of the world. For people who speak English with thick accent or don’t speak it at all or have deep / less clear voice this would be massive decrease in accessibility.

I don’t personally believe in voice input. English is my second language but I have spoken it daily for close to 10 years. I can’t get Siri to understand what I say so I just keep it disabled and iPhone keeps bugging me to enable it.

We cannot rely on voice input as that is a dead end. Until we figure out how to link thoughts directly to computer inputs keyboards will be the king.
PyTorch Implementation of “Dynamic Routing Between Capsules”
Day 12 of 100 Days of VR: Creating AI Movements for Enemies in Unity
In a hard time it tries to do the thing with the less overall impact.

Maybe it's putting lipstick on a pig, maybe it's fairness.

Layoffs (mass dismissal) are very hard, because usually it means the whole region has economic problems, and those that get laid off are especially vulnerable - because they almost by definition work in a sort of dying industry/trade.
Contacts Sync and Update in iOS
How Watsapp, Snapchat et al , syncs phone numbers and updates the Contact lists instantly i.e. that user is on the app or not ?
>We commute because businesses can push off the cost of commuting to their employees.

This is a severe misunderstanding of the economics of the situation. Employees know that they're going to be spending time commuting, and they take that into account when they decide whether to take a job. In more academic terms-- that information is already informing the labor supply curve of which each individual is a part, and thus the market is already incorporating the information in the wages.

If you've ever taken microeconomics 101 then they'll probably have explained how it doesn't matter which side of the market, buyer or seller, pays a tax on business. The tax is incorporated into the price one way or another, whether it's the buyer or the seller that has to actually pony up the physical cash, and the actual tax burden of the two sides has nothing to do with who does that. The same principle applies to commuting, which is after all just a tax that the workers have to pay to the void when they have to wastefully sit around in their car.
You have kind of an absurd definition of diversity.
Yeah but the cases I had in mind, I probably coded correctly. The cases I forgot about are more likely to cause problems (weird cases in both data and especially timing / concurrency handling).
The mentioned proof is confirming SQL:2003.

See also: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Cyclic_Tag_System
For all Spanish speaking folks here in HN, I just learned that "reify" means "cosificar". And I just learned that "cosificar" is an actual Spanish word[1] !

1. tr. Convertir algo abstracto en una cosa concreta.

2. tr. Reducir a la condición de cosa a una persona.

[1] http://dle.rae.es/?id=B58Iitz
That's true, I'm speaking more generally about bitcoin mining for heat, but it may make more sense in Siberia if electric heaters are the dominant heating method.

There are other reasons electrical heating isn't great, heat pumps aside. An average coal plant (in the US in 2015, I'm using EIA numbers) was about 34% efficient in turning the energy in coal into electricity. Then you lose about 5% of that in transmission, so from the heat released by burning coal you're only getting 32% of that as electricity at your house. Converting 100% of that into heat is pretty unimpressive in the big picture, you'd get 3x more heat by buying some coal and setting it on fire.

Obviously you can't do that, but a high efficiency gas-fired furnace will get 90%-98% of the combustion heat into your ducts, with the much smaller remainder going up the chimney. Unless you're on solar power (or some other renewable), burning fossil fuels on-site does better than resistive electric heating.

Of course that may also not apply to Siberia. If the ground is frozen all the time it's harder to run gas lines compared to putting in an electric grid. Mostly I'm trying to dissuade anyone in most of the US from stocking up on mining machines thinking it'll be a great heating system.
In effect they do, because nobody would commute if there were a job that paid as much closer to home.
Great looking and easy to use … what more could one ask for? Also, the Github community that is springing up is already making cool improvements.
It depends on the SAAS and what they are trying to do. Do you have an example?

If it revolves around:

1. Serving content

2. Selling things (on a small scale)

then wordpress would be a good platform. However if you're looking to build a SAAS that does more than that and requires custom models, interfacing with different technologies on the back end etc. then you're in for a world of hurt trying to conform wordpress. You're much better going with a framework like Laravel.

Wordpress is a good tool if your use case falls within the WP core or available plugin ecosystem.
Intrinio (http://intrinio.com/) currently offers the least expensive Real-Time and REST API for US stock prices.

You can access it via WebSocket, or Web API. No other firm currently offers this data via WebSocket which is especially helpful as you only need a few lines of code to implement. Additionally, Intrinio's customer service chat support is live practically 24/7.

The real-time feeds can be found here: https://intrinio.com/marketplace/data#?category=prices&sub_c...

The REST API for prices would be best in this feed: US Public Company Financials (https://intrinio.com/data/company-financials)

This blog will tell you everything you need to know to get started using the real-time API: http://blog.intrinio.com/stock-prices-from-intrinio/
> the second is the act of of entrepreneurship independent of what politico-economic context it occurs in

On the contrary, entrepreneurship is very much dependent on the context it occurs in.

In a socialist/communist context, my small sewing machine for customized garments is a "means of production" that is subject to seizure by the "The People". In a capitalist context, I am actively encouraged (subject to market conditions) to expand and build up my own small factory/business to meet demand.
Retention and the Cross-Generational Pipeline
That's not an argument for why Linus's way is the best way to lead a project, or why we can't have civility and high quality. You just restated what he has chosen to do.
This Fractal Generator Is More Beautiful Than the Hypnotic Patterns It Creates
I tried that one job. Invariably managers would schedule meetings at 3:00, or someone would come to my desk at 2:15 with a task that just had to be finished that day.
There's a lot of discussion here about "virtue" and "self-discipline" - I'd like to offer an interesting possibility that "discipline" is not about motivation or willpower, but is actually an intellectual exercise of avoiding motivated reasoning in the mind.

The simplest example: I resolve to wake up in the morning to run before work. However, when I wake, I feel exhausted. "You need more rest; you can always make it up tomorrow," I might think to myself. If I accept this as a reason to stay in bed, I am falling to motivated reasoning; I am believing as fact an excuse made by my mind looking for a way out of discomfort. I can rest easy when I believe my excuse. I can rest easy when I can say "I have plenty of discipline, I just needed to rest today."

Exercise is merely one of many ways to illuminate your logical fallacies to yourself. The fallacy of motivated reasoning is what causes alternative facts - the mind can always come up with a reason to avoid the discomfort of getting out of bed, just like it can come up with reasons to avoid the discomfort of saying "I was wrong."
Those are really neat. I did say "of course" sarcastically out loud when I got to the King.
>There's some ancillary energy use for blowing air around or shining lights or making sound waves

I believe this isn't really an exception, this energy would also just be converted to heat?
They have 600 employees for a ride sharing app! What are all those people doing?
Earlier this year (~May) they shut down their API endpoint that rendered handy little stock chart images with a surprising amount of useful features. Any alternatives out there, other than tying together a charting lib and data API?
There was a frightening number of close calls over the course of decades on the american side alone. One can just assume what must have happened on the sites of other nuclear powers that just doesn't get reported.

You can find a timeline of these almost accidents here: https://futureoflife.org/background/nuclear-close-calls-a-ti...

It's certainly time to reduce the number of warheads from a nuclear-winter-guaranteeing one to an at least nuclear-deterrence-still-works-but-an-accident-is-terrible-but-no-longer-civilization-ending one.
How does a boss who does not know how to do your job assess your performance?

Without intimate knowledge of the tasks you do they have no idea of what you are asked to do is intrinsically hard or you are simply doing it badly.
There are some coins that do something like this, primecoin's proof of work has to do with primes.

> The innovative prime proof-of-work in Primecoin not only provides security and minting to the network, but also generates a special form of prime number chains of interest to mathematical research. Thus primecoin network is energy-multiuse, compared to bitcoin.

This is of course very basic, but still, it's interesting.

http://primecoin.io/
Hm, not sure. My first boss 'managed' by assigning tasks to people and recording start/finish date in an Excel sheet. Multiple week projects were the same as one-day fixes of they made it on to the sheet. I was 'managed' by having my task completion times compared to 15yr developers, and given no feedback other than to work faster.

We also had a lot of slowdown because we were stuck on a shitty off-the-shelf program he bought. He went for this one instead of the more usable competitor because it was cheaper. If he could get developers to build a working tool in the cheap product by holding them 'accountable' in his Excel sheet, he could push for the product to replace the more expensive competitor and gain some reputation in the corporation.

In the end, most of the project was a horrific failure. His best employees left, and control of the project was transferred to another manager inside of a year or two.

I think a lot of this could have been avoided if my boss had any idea about what he was managing.
Beheld is a new startup that lets you scan, send, and print yourself
Worth trying Tribler. Seems it's Torrent traffic inside its own Tor network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler
That is excellent. If only more vendors (I'm looking at you in particular, Apple) would do this.

The USB ss logo is absurd (not Dell's fault). Nobody knows what all those almost-identical names for different kinds of USB mean.
Brooklyn Businessman Arrested Over Alleged Fraudulent Coin Offerings
It's not. It still uses proof of work, for now at least. They say they want to implement proof of stake. THAT will be interesting, but I want to see if they ever get there.
Nothing against GCP. It's considering Azure as an alternative that I object to.

Here's a couple of ideas:

1. Linux support. If you look in Azure documentation they never say they support any Linux distro - they "endorse" a couple. Amazon provides their own for of Centos with all the conveniences like having the AWS CLI pre-installed. Incidentally Azure is the only cloud platform where I've had machines kernel panic randomly.

2. A consistent interface. The Azure portal has been under development for over 2 years now but you still need to use the "classic" interface for some settings.

3. Database support. Other then MS SQL Server. MySQL is supposed to be in beta. It's been in AWS since 2009. Also Amazon is developing AuroraDB which is, supposedly, optimised to work in AWS.

4. Availability zones. Again in preview in Azure but have been in AWS since 2008. What's also interesting is, up until now MS marketed "Availabilty sets" as the Azure version of AZ. One is a guarantee that a box will be spun up on a different rack within the same datacenter, the other guarantees the box in a separate DC.

5. A consistent API. And I don't mean the definitions being immutable - that's actually handled with schema versioning. I mean getting the correct responses. Although unchanging API would be nice as well.

Here's an example: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz59vPCFY-fham1qN1E1MnZBcl... (3mb video).
What basically happened was, I would deploy my environment, run Ansible against it and get errors/unconfigured nodes.
So what happens in the video is: I run 'for i in 1 2 3; do azure vm list; done' and get three different responses: a list of VMs, an error message saying I have insufficient access rights to list the VMs and an empty list. All are incorrect. The first one is the closest to the truth but it's still missing one box. I get eventual consistency is a thing, but this was >30min after the boxes had been provisioned.

So to answer your question as to what is needed for Azure to become a viable alternative to AWS: I would say about 10 years.
Thanks, this explains things a bit. I think I just misunderstood the scope of this since I'm not in the Android ecosystem.
Similarly, just because you can't dox an account doesn't make it a bot.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616880
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Does Azure have a killing feature that appeals to a non-Windows shop?
Very true for air source heat pumps. Ground source is still an option for colder areas, but that's a much more involved installation.
I think what a lot of GUI's fail to do is to just get out of the way when it's failing to accomplish whatever task is at hand. You don't have the problem with CLI's most of the time because you probably have to implicitly compose commands to achieve the same thing the GUI might do in a single click.

A button might kick off a set of tasks and aggregate the output into a final success message. If it doesn't work there's almost no way to dig into what's going on or even attempt to get the program to an acceptable state with whatever data you're working with.

A CLI might have an analogous command that also kicks off a set of tasks but if it breaks/doesn't work and assuming the CLI is following a unixy model, you can run through specific commands diagnosing the issue or at the very least get to an acceptable state in your workflow that leaves you with a few options to work with.

Any GUI, in my opinion, should just be a visual abstraction from a set of executable tasks that can be run individually. Take something like Github's Desktop client. In yester-years, when it first came out, it was pretty bad at handling git rebasing operations. But because of the way git was built and used most of the time, the Desktop client actually just called into the gitlib API or even just straight up wrapped git commands. If something broke, just like rebasing, I could actually take to the command line, inspect the state of the repository, and continue with rebasing via the vanilla git commands. And even then, when a git command doesn't act right, it might actually just be a wrapper around other more internal commands that you can execute yourself (i.e., git pull is actually analogous to git fetch; git merge origin/*). Compare this to a TFS error I've been getting for a few months on a legacy repository, with little to no information across application and system logs, and almost no information via google: "Provided parameter is not valid." Neat.

I wish the described "composable application" if you will was just a standard across every application. Even in web applications I build I make sure there are "steps" in data processing instead of just monolithic operations. I take care to make sure steps can be kicked off individually with sane output. It seems like we lost this philosophy along the way across every level of application development and the linux ecosystem hasn't been immune from this in my experience. Windows has never really stepped foot in those waters until recently with PS. But most of the time, in my experience, we get GUI's with no recourse. If it breaks you just might be out of luck until a patch comes in or you can interact with the data yourself.

Maybe one day if a program (even a web app!) doesn't provide a set of clean commands to run we'd look at it like we do a badly designed GUI, with disdain and disgust.
Maybe. (In fact, we already care quite a bit about commuting time and ease because we want to retain our developers in a very competitive employment market.)

I think it's more likely that the interview process would just have another step to suss out how much commuting time I'd be paying you for, and then figuring out how to divide up your day rate of $400 (higher in reality, of course) across the buckets. So Laura Long Commute gets $40/hr * 10 hrs/day and Sally Short Commute gets $50/hr * 8 hours/day.
Intrinio (http://intrinio.com/) currently offers the least expensive Real-Time and REST API for US stock prices, AND their customer service chat support is live practically 24/7.

You can access it via WebSocket, or Web API. No other firm currently offers this data via WebSocket which is especially helpful as you only need a few lines of code to implement.

The real-time feeds can be found here: https://intrinio.com/marketplace/data#?category=prices&sub_c...

The REST API for prices would be best in this feed: US Public Company Financials https://intrinio.com/data/company-financials

This blog will tell you everything you need to know to get started using the real-time API: http://blog.intrinio.com/stock-prices-from-intrinio/
If you're going to use a database that does not support these features then you should come up with a data model that does not rely on them.

For example, instead of applying a bank account transfer as a database transaction that debits one account record and credits another, you create a new transaction record (account transaction, not database transaction.) Then account balances are a sum over these transaction records.
Incinerate, rupture, enervate, deconstitute, liquefy, melt, vaporize, expurgate (maybe), evanesce, squidify, particulate (particulize?), atomize, gluonification, skeletonize, exsanguinate, devertibraification, and maybe even defenestrate.

Those are just the ones off the top of my head, I'm sure we can come up with more. Regardless of the verbage, the EFF deserves a pat on the back (and my recurring donation).