skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids NEVER say their bored. My instant reply the last 10 years has been, "God made boredom so that kids can learn to be creative." "So stay bored or get creative."

Also my kids never say "That's not fair" because my instant responce to that one is "Life isn't fair and might as well learn that now." If anyone asks what's fair "Sport should be fair and elections and well ..."
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I'm not against this, but it goes against the grain of a capitalist economy as it does not maximize overall profits. For this concept to work at scale, we might need to rejigger the whole economy.
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Slack released an OpenAPI 2.0 spec for its Web API
does that disprove Jean-Pierre Houdin's beautiful theory, that there is an inner construction passage? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lasCXujNPfs&list=PLf_5zbxiQ4...
Neat! If I'm reading this right (smarter people please correct me if I'm wrong), the process they used is:

1- Train a system that translates language A sentences into a representation space, and can translate back from that space.

2- Train a second system that does the same, but with language B, onto the same representation space.

3- Train an adversarial system that tries to look at the representation space and identify which language the sentence came from, retraining the language translation systems to try to fool that recognizer. Retrain the models to try to not be recognized by this third system.

The best way to 'hide' from the recognizer is to have a very similar distribution, to make it use similar points in the representation space for the same concepts.

Brilliant stuff.
Thanks for the writeup , and others for interesting suggestions. Always on the look out for people thinking about making scientific python more reproducible and accessible!

For myself, i just activate the venv and then open a notebook in that terminal and it seems to work? never had to install any other libraries to handle the VENV + notebook combo.
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It is, but you have to balance it out. Updating an entire app to a new major version (without backward compatibility) simply to use let's say a new API wrapper or syntactic sugar is a waste of time. If the app works fine, there's no need to migrate.
Why did you link to this instead of the actual article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display

That site is proprietary, adds trackers, etc. -1
It's the normalisation effect kicking in now that more traditional financial instruments are tacking advantage of Bitcoin and the growing acceptance with regulators and government officials (see UK's report on cyber crime and cryptocurrencies as well as Europol's, see CTFs announced, etc).
It goes against the concept of commercialized art I'd say. Which is probably a good thing.
I'm going to assume that this is a joke.
Gathering or manufacturing ASICs would be a longer, harder, more obvious process.

In the short term, true. The same could have been said of integrated circuits at one point. ASIC manufacturing will become cheaper and easier.
As a non-coffee drinker can I get ten days?????
At this point, the demand for bitcoin is driven primarily by its value; anyone acquiring it with the intent to use it in transactions is being foolish. Almost certainly they would be better off holding the BTC and processing the transaction with another currency.
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> I'd think if you brought those people from the past to today they may discard some of their ideas (though changing your mind is hard).

Possible, but unlikely for any beliefs they hold dear. And thinking that other people stick to crazy beliefs because they are less smart than you is a great way to end up with a lot of crazy beliefs yourself. After all, why would you ever question them? You're too smart to believe something crazy!

"Science progresses one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck
It's not entirely the fault of its adherents--that generation has never known any kind of political stability. They can't understand ethical government if they have never experienced it. They can't understand ethical institutions if all the institutions they have ever dealt with have stabbed them in the back or scammed them one way or another.

The problem isn't Bitcoin, it is the human condition itself. People weren't always bad actors, or the majority of people weren't, at least. But we have allowed the bad actors to gain control of everything that matters and that's where we keep screwing up.

How do we fix this? Let "too big to fail" fail!
There are DApp currencies which have better scaling solutions in place already vs Ethereum. I think you are heavily discounting the first mover advantage.

I think a lot of the price movement is speculation, but a lot of it is new institutional investors investing in bitcoin. Ask most people who are new investors in BTC if they've heard of ETH, I bet it isn't as large of a proportion as you'd think. People are betting on the future of BTC being greater than it is currently, not about its current value.
Why is there so much expertise being shared without any refs on this topic? Are they hard to find online for some reason?
> Is this enforced in Ruby or just a convention?

It's just conventional.
Firing somebody for lousy performance & making excuses is an entirely correct and professional response. Berating and profanely insulting them is not.
The volumes you can check using any of the block explorers freely available as for what they are used for, it's a transactional system so all records are transactions.

The myth that cryptos are used for illegal and criminal activity is dying down in Europe with Europol and BoE both releasing studies showing criminals prefer to use fiat rather than cryptocurrencies.
I was hired as an external for a specific project which was completed.
Hello! I don't believe I called 4k RSA a "plus", I just called it a difference. But, I do like the fact that it's available, even if it isn't particularly useful right now.

I could put it another way with regards to the EC algorithms. Many people do not trust the P-series curves, or the brainpool curves, and so for them there is support for curve 25519.
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Many people don’t have the time to watch a video. Docs should be the source of truth
Oh, I may have become confused as to which part of this thread I was responding to - I thought we were talking about finding a satellite after reentry.
> there are already tokens supporting this modern crypto

I looked briefly but can anyone link to where to buy one? Thanks in advance (either way: "buy" link or no) for the info.
> I would expect that Linux loses more quality code, from contributors who have better things to do than deal with unprofessional behavior, than it gains.

The evidence doesn't bear that out. I would expect more contributions from experienced developers who don't care about the words used in kernel mailing list discussions.
FYI Bitcoin marketcap as of today is 120B USD but your point still holds.
Yes! Göbekli Tepe is so fascinating!
Cash has more utility and less risk than owning a large quantity of a tech stock. So I'd want to make significantly more than $300k if a big portion of that is equity. Are the other big tech companies now paying >> $300k in total compensation to the average employee?

According to Paysa's self-reported survey data (which, for all I know, is hogwash):

Netflix, senior software engineer, $323k ($323k cash)
Google, senior software engineer, $340k ($220k cash)
Facebook, software engineer, $317k ($190k cash)
Google, software engineer, $281k ($180k cash)

Netflix has too few "software engineer" data points and Facebook has too few "senior software engineer" data points to include those. If this data is at all accurate, it doesn't seem like either of those companies are giving better deals than Netflix on average.
Apart from the normal Facebook detractors, this is big part of why I deactivated my account. 95% of content on facebook is now in video format. Aside from the reasons you mentioned, it's also a huge drain on battery and slows the responsiveness of the site down considerably.

If I want to see videos, I'll go to youtube or vimeo. Don't force them on me when I'm trying to find quick info.
Is this good or bad for BTC as a currency? On one hand, I can see how being more valuable makes it more likely to be supported by retailers / banks / etc, but on the other hand I can't imagine spending BTC on anything when prices keep skyrocketing... at which point I feel like it ceases to be a currency (BTC in particular, not crypto in general).
People who make the tulip comparison simply don't understand the revolutionary aspect of the technology.

People who make the tulip comparison simply don't understand the Tulip craze.
I've been supplying information and you've been complaining. I fail to see how I'm at fault for trying to answer questions.
"Seriously, it's the kind of garbage that makes me think your opinion and your code cannot be relied on" is, quite bluntly, a personal attack, directly commenting on an entire developer's code history and knowledge based on one single issue. This could be worded a lot better. The profanity is also unnecessary.

The rule of thumb I've seen in your typical management oriented business books ( eg, your books / training like Crucial Conversations: https://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucial-conversations-training/ ) is to be "persuasive, not abrasive" as that site says. The issue with being abrasive is that one way people might react is by instinctively attacking back -- no matter how technically correct you are, f-bombs and personal attacks might tempt others to throw counterpoint f-bombs and personal attacks back. Another is that repeated behavior along these lines might drive away some people who would rather not see profanity and anger in their mailbox.

Everyone loses their temper occasionally, and John Johansen reacted in the way you should to someone who loses their temper.

Unfortunately, the Linux community as a whole has a reputation in some circles for being overly "hostile" and "toxic". Linus himself has this reputation. How much this reputation dents Linux contribution and usage isn't known, but I doubt anyone can say that this is a positive.
This is useful if you only need to read the data. If you need to process it in large amounts, its not so useful. And what if you need to traverse graph-like data in an XML format?

> a binary dump does not provide any clues as to how the data was structured

True, but if that binary format is SQlite, the structure is fully documented. You could work it out mentally just as you could work out any given XML schema.
> In the US I'm not even sure it is legal to provide different benefits to individual employees than the rest of the company.

Well it really depends on the state. "At Will" States they can do whatever they like or fire whomever. Now they might get sued but its not against the law to just walk down to a person and say "Your Fired and Your Not Getting An Explaination."
I think your advice on page flow in good. Here's a couple of additional ideas that could help your current page:

1) increase the left and right margins for your nav menu to match the margins of your other page elements, like the price menu.

2) Change the color of the card icons, making them all the same color.

3) Use a palette maker like http://paletton.com or pre-set palettes like from http://www.colourlovers.com/ But next one is important!

4) For UX/UI beginners, USE AS FEW COLORS AS POSSIBLE. Maybe even just one accent colors along with several shades of blacks or greys. Maybe then use colourlovers or paletton to help add one additional color and ask for input. The number one mistake I see backend devs making when they make frontend sites is using lots of different colors that don't work together (btw, even very talented designers usually use no more than 2-3 colors along with various shades of white/grey/black).
I don't think invoking quantum mechanics is necessary here honestly.

Let's say I flip a coin; most people would model the outcome as a p = 1/2 chance of heads and p = 1/2 chance of tails. This is fairly standard, of course, but I think it illustrates my point.

Of course, in reality there is only 1 outcome that's going to happen, but literally the best model of the system we can come up with, given our ignorance, is that it's 50/50 heads and tails.

So, what I am saying is that given that we know relatively little about the particle --- what it's average energy is --- we can come up with a probability distribution over states with that average energy that represents our "best guess" or "least biased" probability assignments.
Is this...the start of an Alternate Reality Game or something?
There is a far bigger picture which everyone seems to miss.

While non smoking is the ideal solution, thats what it is.

ideal

Realistically a break (for non-smokers all the same) can create creativity or rather room there for and keep people from spending 20 minutes to fix an issue only to find out the power was unplugged figuratively. Research a side, anecdotally most can vouch for a fresh break creating a more healthy and sometimes faster solution to a problem there after.

The thing is these are shades of grey heavily dependent on sector. A cook wasting prep time before service for 15 minutes due to a break is more likely to increase actual workload. Then say a graphic designer creating a logo or product brochure, where taking extra time to brainstorm can very well directly increase product value.

Another important factor is that taking the holidays does revitalize many. I'd argue one who never takes breaks or a holiday is more likely to over-work, make errors, get annoyed with colleagues or potentially have to drop work entirely due to workaholic related therapy. All of which scream potential and actual productivity decrease.

Tldr;
Too often judged on the non verbal implication of 'fairness' which is largely an emotional argument, and not enough on objective measurable productivity increase related to health benefitting break and holiday times.
Any idea on the tax implications of this? Do you have to pay cap gains when using crypto as collateral?

If not, seems like it'd be massively useful for whales to cash out without paying taxes.
No, I'm not stupid, but you're pathologically paranoid. Something that solves a problem for <1% of the global population and some niche cases is of virtually no utility.
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Cigarette breaks are sometimes ad-hoc meetings or brainstorming sessions. You get a few people together and talk about work stuff.

I found these to be so valuable that even after I quit smoking, I'd still take "fresh air breaks" with others just for this very reason.

It's like a forced elevator conversation or something like that :-)
But present in basically all the major libraries which is wonderful.
Investment used to mean putting up capital to create or own something that, with some work, would return a stream of income. Farmland produces food with the work of farming. A factory produces goods with lots of people working. A mine produces iron or copper with lots of machines and effort. With the financialization of the economy, lots of people are increasing their "wealth" by speculation and skimming a percentage on transactions. When people start believing that speculation is the only form of investing, society is in for a hard fall at some point.
> Does the fact that some idea provides comfort have any effect on whether that idea is actually true?

Actually, yes, but not in the sense you might mean: I'm not the least bit comforted by explanations of life that sound nice but also assume facts not in evidence. For example: I take no comfort in the notion — because I've seen no evidence and have no reason to believe — that a divine "being" has a plan for my life; that when I die I'll go to Heaven if I'm good or to Hell if I'm not; etc.

> what have you done, if anything, to ensure that there aren't negative side effects to your possible "placebo treatment" that might outweigh the benefits of the placebo?

A valid question. The main thing I do is discuss these matters with others — such as you — and try to keep an open mind to new evidence and new insights, in part because I like to know how things really work. (A corollary to the First Commandment is: Face the facts: Live in the world that the (hypothetical) Creator wrought, as opposed to the world we imagine, or wish, existed.)

In that vein: I used to be a total agnostic, until our then-rector asked an insightful question about physics that got me thinking and studying for several years, which eventually led to my working around to my present set of conjectures. See generally "Why I Still Call Myself a Christian and an Episcopalian (2005) (self-cite) http://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/05/why_i_call_myse....
Regulations & compatibility.
Even on the latest Safari it doesn't work: 10.13.1 (17B48)
with macOS: 10.13.1 (17B48)

Nothing about that page seems like it would stop Reader so I filed a Radar about it.
ugh... i dispise this crap..

"
the “it just works” experience of using Kafka.
"

Blog post says how it just works, then shows a crazy diagram stringing together 8 different pieces of technology (which themselves are insanely deep). Is there any easy way to understand WTF this crap does without knowing about RDS, hadoop, monitoring, real time BS, streaming etc? Does it "just work" once you've spent weeks and months understanding wtf it is?
among my friends/acquaintances Netflix has higher or comparable totals (much north of $400K) with significantly, like on the order of 2x, higher base than FB/Google - makes for much happier existence :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12069784

>mdewinter(2016Jul): They [undisclosed HSM vendor] did, with undocumented commands, export the key from the device in an unencrypted format and loaded it into the other model so that we could continue our operation.

(The first comment I ever favorited on HN.)
Or MitM and swap out G ads for someone else’s ads?
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Here's a different take on all this:
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2010/12/secrets-of-egyptian...

http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2016/10/eight-sided-pyramid...
One of the issues is this type of neuroscience is becoming too "basic", so it's what gets taught in classes as the truth and professors don't necessarily give references anymore. Also I was typing on my mobile phone, but have switched to my laptop now. The scholarpedia (basically peer-reviewed wikipedia) article on saccades should be pretty interesting.
They have been bullying around, but their enforcement of HTTPS for forms with password inputs shouldn't count as one of their instances of bullying. It's something browser vendors should have implemented long ago, even before LetsEncrypt came along, because it is highly insecure and users should know about it.
The other day my Grandma, who cannot print things without getting help, asked me how she could get into BTC.
I’ve noticed this thing on social media lately where a single image is turned into like a 10-second video...of nothing but the still image (and sometimes stock background music). This is usually done by low-effort clickbait sites, but I don’t get why.
It's insanity. If I found myself working for such an employer I would immediately label them as my enemy and nope the hell out of there as soon as possible. I wouldn't talk with my friends or family, I wouldn't watch youtube or TV series, I wouldn't even walk - I would always run, as a character in a videogame, and I would chew my food very fast looking nowhere but the dish I'm eating. All of that just to squeeze out as much time as possible to getting out. You can't have positive relationships with someone who monitors your breaks.
"They" in that case aren't the "Internet Archive" but the European research projects about the digital preservation.

The Internet Archive collects the donations now for the Canada site:

"this year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet Archive’s digital collections in another country. We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because lots of copies keeps stuff safe. We estimate this will cost $5 million. With your support, we are more than halfway there."

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On the contrary, it is no coincidence that it this has been found by a team comprised of (also) French academics. This is very much compatible and inspired by his work.

His theory involves the Grand Gallery being a purely functional structure required to accodate a trolley that helped serve as a counterweight to heave the massive stones that relieve the weight acting upon the roof of the King’s Chamber. Implicit in this theory is the idea that there are other ”ceremonial routes” from the outside to the King’s Chamber. It is very possible that this is actually the unopened anteroom that contains the provisions for the Pharos’ afterlife (or other artefacts that could be carbon-dated).