skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You haven't provided any good arguments for on chain scaling

Multiple dollar fees doesn't require any more arguments. The lack of arguments against on chain scaling, backed by actual research, is what's lacking.

> but the market is screaming "bitcoin is doing it right".

Have you considered that it's driven by speculation instead of technical merit? When the blockchain becomes unusable due to high fees and congestion the bottom will fall out. It cannot be driven by pure speculation forever.
Yes, sorry, should be more specific. DDOS are blocked, but intrusion attacks not so much.

Although cloudflare has also a Web application firewall, somethings always slip thru.

Re: range blocking, only very specifically and when it got out of hand...and just for a few hours. Not a good solution, I agree
In no particular order...

Flexibility. It is a hard 8-5? Or can I swing it either way an hour or two if need be?

Commute. It needs to be a reasonable drive in the morning. Work already takes enough of my day, I don't want to sacrifice the rest to the gods of traffic.

Pay. It needs to be reasonable. Obviously.

Benefits. This gets the honor of picking up any slack in the pay department.
Power Consumption of Convolutional Neural Networks for Keyword Spotting
>Only children and the very slow still believe in "democracy", which is obviously just another name for the rule of those who own the media and/or are rich enough to bribe politicians.

As a citizen of the USA, this is quite a scary thing to read. We may not have attained perfection (or even satisfaction), but it is a process. Each iteration has ultimately improved the world and the underlying principles are sound. It's all about optimization priorities, and I'd prefer to optimize for liberty, not authority.

Government has a monopoly on sanctioned violence, and the only reason it is justified is because of democracy. "We the people," are the first words in the US Constitution.

If you want to give up on democracy, move to a dictatorship. The earth does not have to have the same forms of government in every country/state.

edit: Tell me what you are for, instead of what you are against?
All the time: https://whattomine.com/calculators
I love Firefox's reader mode for that reason, it just makes all that rubbish go away and it's improved a lot over time, it works without any issues on about 95% of the long form content I read.

Which reminds me I need to figure out if I can make it the default view for some sites.
As Expected, Movie Scenes Are Being Recreated Using iPhone X Animojis
Qualcomm is shipping next chip it'll perhaps get sued for: Arm Centriq 2400
Yup.

https://angel.co/dopamine-1/jobs
heheh, that was well worth watching!

There was an awful case about three years ago where some guy hacked into a baby video monitor and started yelling at the 10 month old child:
http://time.com/79170/stranger-hacks-into-baby-monitor-and-s...

I think as IoT spreads we're going to be seeing some real life horror stories unfortunately. These devices are just barely secure at the best of times and I don't think their network stacks are anywhere near tight enough.
Is Kafka expensive because of the hardware requirements, the number of servers needed or just because its relatively niche? Or something else?
It looks like the /stats endpoint consults the Redis database and returns processed data. If we're aggregating metrics externally, it would be more idiomatic for this to be totally stateless and just expose hot metrics - it's the aggregator's job to store and process the data. This can be quite painless using something like the Go Prometheus library.

Being tied to Redis is also not great. For instance, it looks like everything apart from the metrics could comfortably live in Google Cloud Storage if you had a backend for it. Cloud Storage really isn't an appropriate place to put frequently updated counters, though. So if I deployed AuthN, I would want to be able to ditch Redis.

I should stress, though, that these are quibbles. I think AuthN looks very nice, and the quibbles are cropping up because I'm trying to figure out if I can use it. :)
Hear hear. Design is irrelevant, speed and data use are more important to me. I just disable web fonts in FF for mobile.
Wow they exchanged one monopoly for another monopoly that can use force. Genius voter population over there.
It's actually very common to be in a career not related to your college degree. There is individual level data in the Census Bureau's ACS PUMS data set for those interested in this kind of thing.

Self-promotion alert: I worked on a website that has some statistics about this. I found out that only 8% of chemical engineering grads (my undergrad degree) actually work in the field. (https://careertrend.com/major-chemical-engineering.html)
Ah of course. Thanks
I suppose that might loosely qualify as “addressing” the argument. It's really just a joke though, isn't it? Enabling rapid cross-platform application development with web skillsets is not really in any way similar to using square wheels.
The rhetorical trap we’ve fallen into is conflating capitalism with corporatism.
I tried to replicate the formula for the type scale and it took a bit more effort than expected. This is what I got:

var scale = (n) => n ? scale(n-1) + Math.ceil((n-2) / 4) * 2 : 12;
[...Array(16).keys()].map(n => scale(n+2));

Looks like the ⌊floor⌋ should actually be ⌈ceil⌉ and it only works by starting from offset 2 (base value repeats 3x in the sequence). Am I mistaken, or is the formula wrong?
Top 1% pays ~15% of total federal income taxes. Your numbers ignore Social security which provides ~34% of total federal revenue and cap at 120k vs a minimum 465k to make it into the top 1%. It's also clearly income tax while 'income taxes' provide ~47% of the federal revenue.

PS: Social Security pays money for blind people who have never worked, it's in no way a just a 'retirement' fund and is simply general welfare under a new name.
No matter how large the pie is, we might question how it is to be carved up. The size of the pie doesn't answer the question of who gets to eat it. If it grows and grows, we still make a decision as to how to distribute that growth.
All of the h1b's I've known that transferred just switched from one slaver to the next. I'm talking about being part of the job market and being able to switch, perhaps within fixed time windows, but for the most part, at one's own will. You know, having freedom?

Of course, that will never happen, because the point of the system is to get people here, have a sword of deportation hanging over their heads, and thus keep 'em quiet and get 'em cheap.
> Rail infrastructure is incredibly expensive.

I didn't know that but I assumed it would be cheaper than roads? I mean four tracks of trains (two local, two express) compared to four lanes of road?
LinkedIn + Gmail
Best Practices for Managing Data Science at Scale
The article appears to assert two things:

1. Chrome runs field trials.
2. At one point Chrome locked up the author's computer.

Does it ever connect the two points, or are they unrelated?
In my observations, problems at the DMV are usually because of the public, not the DMV. People show up to register a car without a title, have missing paperwork to get a license plate, and are generally unprepared.

The DMV spells out what you need online, but people show up and need every little thing explained to them. I'm at the counter for 5 minutes, pay my fees, and walk out the door.

Why was this other goof-ball at the window for 25 minutes? 99% of the time, because they did something wrong.
SegWit was a soft-fork block size increase with other scaling improvements.
I'm strongly against having any hard fork in Bitcoin.
The last Ethereum hard fork (when half of the devs wanted to cancel it because of the bug that was found) showed how dangerous it is.
At this point Bitcoin is worth so much, that it's better to not touch it at all without a formal proof that the network is not harmed at all.

The biggest difference Segwit2x would make in centralization is the fact that block propagation latency is already very slow, and if it gets to over 10 minute for the whole network, the network can split.

Bitcoin is an amazing store of value, and those of us who hold the currency wouldn't accept any risk of increased centralization just because non-holders want low transaction fees (that can be very easily be created by a centralized system)
I think Gepsens argument was that your not achieving the same pattern, rather your achieving a subset of the pattern where several important considerations in dealing with a distributed system have been ignored and/or are unsupported. Once you do add those features back in then you basically arrive at Kafka and all the complexity involved with standing it up, so Redis isn't really an Apples to Apples comparison. While it certainly might work for certain use cases (and indeed appears to do so), many of the use cases that Kafka is necessary for would end up being just as complicated to setup Redis to support.

I think this is largely a rephrasing of one of the findings of dealing with NoSQL vs. Relational DBs, which is that for a subset of problems relational DBs have been used to solve in the past, NoSQLs are perfectly capable of replacing them, but not every problem a relational DB handles can be handled by a NoSQL without investing significant time and effort layering more complex systems on top, at which point you've basically implemented a poorly optimized ad-hoc relational DB. In this case, Redis, with the new stream type is capable of handling a subset of problems that have previously required Kafka to solve, but it isn't itself a replacement for Kafka in all situations since there are several important features of Kafka that aren't available in Redis.
Announcing TITS 2017 – The (un)official sister event to NIPS
Yes, but you're not allowed to sell the font "by itself."

https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#The_Open_Font_License
The amount of work that goes in to novelty mobile apps these days is seriously impressive :)

Seriously though, this is cool!
That's one possibility, but a recent HBR study[0] suggests that we lean on "reasons" like that more quickly than we should.

[0] https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-me...
Oh of course. Test to failure, why didn't that occur to me with respect rocket engines? Thanks for the insight.
Creating a Clone of Typeform with Elm and Tachyons
I had a similar experience recently. I searched for something, and the results were mostly intro pages or starting "how to do this with xyz" type of pages when I was trying to debug a problem I was having with xyz. So I modified the search to add a couple words to make sure it was obvious that I was looking for help debugging a problem, and the result set on the first page was identical.
Or maybe it'll just end up spreading racism and denying the Holocaust.

Something like this actually happened recently:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new...
i don't think it does. as the gp said, nobody is forcing you to use something with square wheels.

the problem isn't electron, or electron developers. it's much larger than that.
I had massive issues with Hetzner the last time I tried a dedicated box with them (though that was 3ish years ago now).

In about a month I had a handful of days where I wasn't having issues, half the time I'd open a ticket, report a problem then a bit later get "yes, we are looking into that now".

Left a bad taste, these days I just use linode for most things, if I needed heavy duty processing power there are some decently priced options near to me (bytemark is about 60 miles away from me).
I'll second that anecdote... among my peer group in Portland, OR, Uber is deprecated for ethical reasons.
The USA didn’t ban wechat, if that’s what you are getting at.

And aren’t you just exercising a black or white binary fallacy when we are really comparing a light shade of grey to a much darker one?
FYI you can use http://forked.yannick.io to find the most starred / most forked fork.

It would be really great if GitHub made something like that a built-in.

On my side, I've been a Cordova developer for a while and I experienced many dead repos (I think most Cordova devs go native at one point).

Fork reconciliation is an interesting issue but not sure how to implement it to prevent abuse. I once got an email from a guy who created a fork, sent an email to all the owners of the other forks who were ahead, to come up with a community fork, I think that's the best we can have for now.

The main problem is how to signalize to other devs that you're interested in maintaining the fork and accepting PRs. One way could be to just comment on open issues/PRs on the dead repo to say "come to my fork", but when the repo is archived, seems it won't be possible anymore. So it would be actually harder now to create a community fork.
They want to slowly sell off their stock so as not to affect the price too much. If they sold nothing, they'd make no money off bitcoin and eventually when they did want to sell, the effect would be so huge as to crash the entire currency. So to maximize their return from their bitcoins, they need to constantly sell off bitcoins. Not too much to affect the price too badly, but not so little that they aren't cashing in appropriately on their investment.
I've always thought that HTML made a pretty amazing platform for applications when you have the specific goal that the application should be an enhancement (of editing controls + toolbars + whatever) on top of a clean, semantic, static HTML document. Because then you get all the advantages of having a "document" even though you have an application. (These arguments don't apply to "native-ized" apps like Electron apps; only to actual apps-at-URLs-in-a-browser.)

You can, for example, print your application's interface (i.e. your document), without having to implement your own print-layout logic, because that logic can just be the browser doing CSS @media(print) to the DOM. (Which can, with a few @media(print)-scoped rules, hide all the toolbars to just leave the document.)

Or, users can use User-Agent stylesheets (think "forcing high-contrast" or "disabling serif fonts") and browser extensions to customize your application [or, more importantly, anyone's old closed-source abandonware application that's never gonna make an accessibility update ever again], because your application's interface is guaranteed to exist in the intermediary state of a DOM tree, where those things can get to it to munge it†.

† (This is also true in various ways for each OS UI framework—and you can create native "extensions" like screen-readers that use the OS accessibility APIs of each OS—but you have to redo this work. WebExtensions are cross-platform.)

Also, with web-apps, users get final control over how the application is sized and shaped on the desktop, and so apps are forced to be at least semi-responsive—which is easy, because the default layout algorithm for any container, if you don't override it, is a reflowable-text algorithm. Web-apps are the only apps where I'm (nearly) guaranteed to have the ability to adjust the em-widths of blocks of text so that they're actually comfortable to read.

And, as an added benefit, as long as you ensure that you really are serving a static HTML document at each URL that is progressively-enhanced into being your app—then your web-app can double as a programmatically-accessible infobase. Google can't index a native app. You can't scrape a native app. You can't embed microformats into a native app. Etc.
I lived in a city with muni owned cable and broadband. It was amazing. Great service and reasonably priced. Even offering gig internet. I miss those days now where Spectrum is one of my only options.
How to Make Friends Outside Your Current Network?
See also:

Kushnick, B., $300 Billion Broadband Scandal [2009]
http://www.teletruth.org/docs/broadbandscandalfree.pdf
One really big thing I learned from doing this on a public website: there are a ton of ISPs, browser extensions, antivirus and malware which inject really horrible JavaScript into every page. If you run Sentry as a front-end error collector you will get a ton of bizarre-seeming errors for other peoples’ code and, if you're really lucky, find that some of them used the same variable or function names as your code.
I think part of the irony of this situation is that Make Magazine publishes tutorials and features white American childrens' projects who have almost certainly received extreme hand-holding help from parents.

If the standard is truly "without external help", are people following tutorials in Make magazine not 'real' makers?

If the standard is "represent as doing all the work", to what extent does Make verify that the (often privileged) children it features are doing all of the work themselves? Has the CEO ever called out a child for getting too much help?

Children is certainly a bit of a straw man, but I suspect they feature many young-20-something white male Americans whose parents have taught them technical things from young age, can afford maker equipment to experiment with at home, can ask their parents for technical help when they get stuck, have mentors in their family's social network that are experts in the field, etc.

I guess my point is EVERYONE in the maker movement needs lots of help if they are not from the highest levels of privilege. There is a ton of info to learn, and nobody has the time to trial-and-error brute force their way to expertise. Implicit standards that everything must be done and figured out yourself creates a bias to only feature people who "need" the exposure least and are most privileged. Anyone working 'alone' has likely received enough help on previous projects that they were able to build off those skills to self-teach the rest of the way.

Obviously, Make magazine appreciates the value of help and instruction within the maker community: that is their reason for existence. Thus, I believe Dale is holding Naomi to a higher standard than he does for most male American makers because of his own biases.
One at a time, the reasons given for bias are never[0] gender or race, but collectively, well, I've already mentioned a recent HBR study[1] in the comments here once, but I'll stop at twice.

[0] For some reasonable value of "never"

[1] https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-me...
At Treasure Data, we ingest about 1-2 million events per second. Using your #, this translates to ~6 trillion events per month.

If you (or anyone on this thread) is interested in learning more, please feel free to ping me.
>Do you have any other links that show that ME is automatically provisioned/enabled?

I think you are confusing Intel's AMT with the ME. AMT is a ME application, and has to be enabled/provisioned. The ME, in general, can do other things, such as crytographically verifying boot firmware is correctly signed (aka BootGuard/Secure Boot/Verified Boot, and probably other names). Some vendors even allow you to add your own signing keys.

Some more info here: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
Auth0 Ranks High Among Tech Workers as a Place They’d “Love to Work”
I'm not an expert, but the best one I could find is this:

https://machinelearningmastery.com/deep-learning-with-python...

Really neat intro, simple examples, using high level libraries (Keras and TF).
For simpler setups, you can just search for "kafka" in the AWS marketplace and snag a bitnami instance. Larger clusters take more administrative overhead; I've had to set a few of these up manually and it's not fun or particularly intuitive.
Common complaint is the reliance on ZooKeeper, which requires three servers to get started.
> It isn't news. It's propaganda. NYTimes and WaPo have been spearheading a political/propaganda campaign against social media ( fb, reddit, youtube, etc ) to reign them in. Traditional media has been trying to get social media to fall in line for nearly a decade.

This gives these media companies way too much credit. If they had this much self-awareness and intelligence they wouldn't have been caught out by the rise of social media in the first place.

"Traditional media" has had hundreds of years to get it's business model down and comfortably integrated into society, so of course new media is having the lion's share of the problems which is being reported on. This should all be totally obvious and expected - it's not really a massive conspiracy - it's innovative business models forcing new problems into the open. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have been in the public consciousness for less than 15 years.
Online Marketing Methods to Revitalise Dead Traffic
An Ode to Android
I didn't understand why he couldn't keep staged and checkpoints in Redis as well...
> how can any private ISP compete with that?

Offer faster speeds and more reliable connections (compared what might be a very congested public network), at reasonable prices.
So this is essentially the taxpayer paying to build out infrastructure that private enterprise then runs and collects profits on right? This is a good thing? Wasn't that always the argument why pharmaceutical companies are so evil, because they appropriate public research for private profit?
This is the super easy way to do it.
The first thing I saw was:

[ ] print 'Hello, Colaboratory!'

Ah, so this is apparently a Python 2 Jupyter notebook system. The lack of parentheses tells us so much about the service and the product's vision.
Mostly tech circles, they are beating their competition in India.
It's 50TB/month, not unmetered. Only 1.17EUR/TB over that though.
Sure, but a good LCD panel is still a lot closer to paper than any CRT ever way. At the lowest level, the state equations of photons don't include a "reflected" versus "emitted" term.
One of the only things I dislike about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is the flagrant use of power that doesn't necessarily compute anything.

With the proof of chia being used in storage, does that imply a lower power cost? I'm not sure what proof of time is either...

Does anyone know more about this and can clarify things?
> You can’t “compete” with a municipal service.

Sure you can.

The inherent costs to provide services is similar, but Comcast can amortize costs over a larger customer base. If Comcast is at all competent (a huge if!) then they should have overall lower costs, even taking (probably reduced) profits into account.

Customer service needs to be provided, a mailing center to send out hardware, a billing system, technicians and installers need to be trained and dispatched, payroll for all said employees, and all the other costs of running a business that should, in theory, scale to Comcast's advantage.

And of course Comcast can offer quicker upgrades in service. By bringing resources to bear, they should be able to iterate on technology faster than a municipal provider can.

Comcast also has the advantages of bundling services, another way to recoup costs and compete vs the municipal provided service.

A well ran national company with should be able to put up one heck of a good free market fight going up against a municipality. The real question becomes, is Comcast able to put up that fight?
As a person that just entered college and out of that time period, mall didnt do it for me because they are barren of things to do. There is nothing but things to buy and nothing of actual interest. I would rather go to a friends house and play games or watch a move at the theater than go to a mall because there is nothing there. The times when I went to a mall was because there was an arcade there that we would hang out at but that was the only point of interest. Other than that we would go elsewhere.