skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can detail a process through which bitcoin is used primarily for speculation and criminal activity.

Can you detail a feasible process whereby bitcoin gets rid of the aircraft carriers?

Or alternatively, can you detail a feasible process whereby bitcoin gets rid of income inequality?
I don't buy "Apple is a SJW shop" hysteria automagically. If it were the case, that would be depressing because win-lose, collective-punishment identity politics is corrosive, victim-bully fascist ideology masquerading as egalitarian enlightenment. Such behaviors wouldn't add value and encourage talent to stay. Smith seemed to have the right ideas but perhaps couldn't implement them and/or had political troubles. Maybe she said other things that were inconsistent. Only Apple management and her have a better idea of what transpired.
You could say his incompetence is even greater than his ignorance.
Unlike many commenters, I actively love products which have a wire. My mouse, keyboard, headphones, chargers are all wired and I hope they remain that way. Having to baby sit (charging) these devices is the last thing I want to do. Besides, I have no issues with using my headphones during my run or biking.

And oh, the great thing about my headphones is that I never drop them in a toilet/sink/river bed/all the water bodies other commenters have listed!
> Agreed, horrible idea for the time being, but you made it seem as if ZFS could run on these low resource systems.

I've installed ZFS on a machine with only 1GB of ram. Yea that's a lot for an embedded device, But it's not a lot of RAM in the grand scheme of things. Was it fast, no, but it definitely worked.
But the cord management... when you have to take that call and you still are only halfway to detangling your earphones...

I still use corded earphones for workouts because they're cheap and my sweat kills all things, but AirPods (or other BT headsets) are the way to go.
The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3's source code (2013)
What is an acceptable amount to work then?
A theory of Jerkodynamics: The only people who will hang around jerks tend to either be other jerks with the same problem, or people too insanely nice to set boundaries and tell the jerks to get bent.
In the specific case of CV, a programmer looking to move into that area is probably doing themselves a disservice if they just apply for jobs that are actually looking to hire computer vision specialists.

There are so, so many businesses out there that could benefit from CV, but they don't realize it. Maybe they're spending a ton of money on off the shelf OCR software that isn't great for their needs. Maybe they're spending a few hundred thousand dollars a year manually organizing and classifying documents when they could automate it.

These companies won't be hiring someone to own CV for them, because they don't know they need it. They might not even know what computer vision is. And they won't care about whether you have a PhD or a relevant thesis. They'll care about whether can can demonstrate that you can solve their problems and save them a pile on money.

Granted, finding companies with these types of problems is perhaps not something that a typical LOB programmer knows how to approach. And if they see themselves as just a LOB programmer, it might stay like this.

If they make an effort to get to know people and network outside of the usual tech circles, they might just find it possible to position themselves as solvers of specific types of problems - problems to which CV happens to be the best solution.

I know that's not a path that'll work for everyone. But it's one path that leads from 'LOB Programmer' to 'Someone who makes lots of money doing development with computer vision'.
Mine too. It's all about who you know I guess.
How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
Pennsylvania Dutch not liking sugar? Have you seen their recipes?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't downforce an aerodynamic issue? There are no aerodynamics at 0 mph. You do have a torque problem, but the Tesla is actually a fairly heavy car, is it not? Also, isn't Tesla's center of mass pretty near the same height as the axles? So it's not like the rear end is going to get under the front end.
Stock brokers providing APIs - this is the best since sliced bread, because I can automate my hobby (stock trading) and make more money than my regular job with very little overhead...
Quality is still good but lyrically they are all the same now. 5.2's 'Aquarela do Linux' was probably the last aggressive song.
This post does not appear to contain any evidence that YC has cut ties with Peter Thiel. They ended the program that he, and many other individuals, were a part of. Just because he is not in this program anymore, does not mean they no longer have any ties to him. There is also no evidence of any connection here to Trump or Thiel's support of him with the ending of the program or Thiel's lack of involvement in a different official capacity with YC. I wish I could have the five minutes back it took to read this click bait.
In fact, REP MOVSD is harder to handle in hardware especially for unaligned locations because you can only interrupt on 4 byte boundries.
It’s clear you don’t know Thiel. Comparing him to Bannon is just ridiculous.
Some people are really good at chess. Some people are really good at self-promotion stunts.

As they say, it takes all kinds.
I dabbled a bit with lfs but it seems specifically geared towards a few very large resources that you need to manually take care of syncing etc.

What we need to move off large repos in tfvc or svn is something where the inconvenience is small enough that it doesn’t weigh heavier than the benefits of git. LFS was not that, this could be.
There's a lot I could point to but the most meaningful one that is that people were overwhelmingly complacent based on the assumption that Trump couldn't possibly win.

This comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12735404
That's a great question, and fits nicely in the context of the current discussion.

I think the primary claim to fame for this C-based https://github.com/kovidgoyal/html5-parser is serving as a drop-in performance boost for lxml (at the API level; it parses invalid HTML differently/more consistently).

I too would be interested in a performance comparison to help decide which project makes more sense for new projects. The existing Python layer in html5-parser might give it a leg up if the language of choice is Python - is there a similar project for the Rust-based html5ever?
> Creator produces content. I pay creator for content. Did you just suggest that the most traditional, direct business model ever created, value for value, is a "bad" one?

It isn't "value for value", it's a donation. The most traditional, direct business model ever created involves you not having the content until you pay.
This sounds like a really interesting paper -- do you happen to have a link to the reference?
My company uses reviewboard and i have never had any complaints with it.
I see the miscommunication here.

It's not my claim that simply by moving to a specialized subfield of programming that you'll instantly quadruple your salary and future-proof your career.

Obviously, you're going to start in some domain speciality as a commoditized practitioner and, with effort, move yourself to more elite ranks of that subfield.

My point is that it is better to work on that problem --- of being an elite in a specific domain --- than it is to be an elite at the general problem of building reliable software.

(It's "Burp", by the way.)
Dead bait river pike fishing - I am done with carp fishing for the year (water too cold), so I need something to do in the mornings before everything freezes and the ice fishing starts :-)
A municipality with only 10,000 homes isn't even approaching city status, more like a small town... but I get your point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_hierarchy
Some thread(s) on reddit/conspiracy about comment section used for cp-stuff but too lazy to find it. Based on reason that dark-web is controlled.

They DID/DO have weird comments.
Gone on rides, dancing, runs (all rarely) without any problems. Initial there was fear on my part, but never worried.
FYI the speed chess championship is ongoing and Magnus plays tomorrow... https://www.chess.com/article/view/2017-speed-chess-champion...
How can you say "can we save ourselves a really long, pointless political argument" and end your post with a divisive political opinion (that you think people with opposing viewpoints should be silenced)? You're literally inviting the debate that you're calling long and pointless. Or perhaps you just want to only share your opinion without others having the same opportunity, so you can have the last word?

Personally, I think Trump is reprehensible. I also think that silencing people with opposing political viewpoints is dangerous and reprehensible. I don't always agree with Peter Thiel politically, but I would happily do business with him. It's really not our place as the internet lynch-mob to interfere with Peter's role in the startup community because of his political views. Note, @sama said as much when the whole thing went down.
Why Doesn't US Make 2 Year Warranty on Products Mandatory Like EU?
> So the lack of that justifies graffiti in random threads until your demands are Let?

Nope but it is the inevitable outcome as we see here.
Someone once told me how polite I was even when being an asshole. I took that as a high compliment.
Only if you suck at it.
I think they are referring to the first observation of differences between empirical evidence and our models that lead to the concept that we call dark matter. Unfortunately cosmology usually doesn't have discoveries so much as unanswered questions and speculation.

But yeah, discovered isn't really the right word is it?
"Paul Graham compared him to Stalin. Both Altman and Graham believe, like I do, that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy."

Good god. It's crazy how politically driven people immediately demand nobody talk about politics as soon as they get their way. The guy was ranting and raving about end of democracy. Now that thiel is out, he wants everyone to be silent.

Truly an "unhacker" type of mindset which has gained such a prominent foothold on HN.

Censorship truly gives power to the people who shouldn't have it.
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014)
How women in tech can overcome Imposter Syndrome
Can you show me where I said the aircraft carriers need to be gotten rid of? Can you show me where I even mentioned income inequality, let alone said it should be gotten rid of?

Your glib reply of 'lol, banks already do this, why do we need to put it on the blockchain' just assumed that banks exist without external costs. And now I'm supposed to get rid of all the external costs you don't know exist? Get an imagination, or beat up on a different straw man.
Tax bill that passed the House would cripple training of scientists
A few levels up, medical facts were the example used for needing disclaimers. The point is that Google isn't putting up disclaimers even where they should.

> ...97 correct facts about, say, gardening, and three incorrect facts about first aid is not a successful system...
GitHub has started adding support for this for some languages: https://help.github.com/articles/finding-changed-methods-and...
Let me try to pull some intellectual gratification out of this:

A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time partners moved over to a program called "experts," which provides advice to Y Combinator entrepreneurs, Thiel did not join.

It's legit fascinating to me to watch this in action. Let's say hypothetically you wanted to get rid of Thiel. How could you do that?

"Just form another group, then don't invite Thiel to the new group" didn't even occur to me. That's smart.

Can this be seen as something other than an accusation or a political talking point? I'm trying to make commentary about overall emergent social phenomena. Maybe nobody cares about that, but personally I think group dynamics are really interesting to witness.
This is such a fantastic blog! Well worth going back and reading all of it!
> Obviously not turning on optimizations makes your program take longer and use more memory.

Yes, but it shouldn't take an algorithm which only requires constant space as written and turn it into object code which requires linear space.

Update: Elaborating on this point somewhat—Consider the case of a simple loop with a local variable. The variable is specific to the body of the loop; each iteration, in effect, has its own copy of the variable. What if a compiler implementer decided, for the sake of simplicity, to allocate block-local variables with alloca(), so that new memory is reserved from the stack for each loop iteration, and only freed when the enclosing function returns? Perhaps an optional optimization is provided -floop-variable-space-optimization which "lifts" the variable out of the loop, allowing the memory to be reused and restoring constant space complexity. Would you still consider this an acceptable implementation on the grounds that "obviously not turning on optimizations makes your program ... use more memory"? I think not.

> When a function call is made its variables are pushed onto the stack and popped when the function returns.

That is nothing more than an unfortunate, naïve implementation choice common among compilers which do not implement tail calls properly. Nothing in the definition of a function or a function call requires the use of a stack. What is required is only a continuation—a reference to the code to be executed when the function is finished. When there is a chain of calls F -> G -> H, and the G -> H call is in tail position, the natural continuation for that call is the same continuation which was provided to G. A compiler which does not implement tail calls properly, however, interposes an extra, unnecessary continuation for the call to H, turning a (potentially) constant-space function into a linear one.

> A more correct design, I think, would be having a 'replace' keyword for function calls instead of return that causes it to replace the stack of the caller.

Most modern languages make it simple to determine when a function call is in tail position, and in such cases I feel that a special calling syntax would be an unnecessary distraction. In Scheme, for example, the cases where a tail call is required are obvious from the structure of the code and are, moreover, spelled out in the language standard. However, I will grant that languages like C and C++ which occasionally depend on the compiler adding hidden code at the end of some functions to run destructors or implicitly transform the result type might benefit from such a keyword. It would, at any rate, be an improvement over the current situation where proper tail calls are deemed an optional optimization.
Tens of thousands of developers pushing changes is not the same as the Linux development process, at all. The key is in the word “actively.” Even Perforce couldn’t keep up with that type of load in a similar situation with Google’s monorepo, forcing them to develop a Perforce-compatible alternative.

It’s tough to scale VCS to very large teams, regardless of the software. No need to stand up for git.
Makes sense - government could instantly prevent BTC from gaining mainstream adoption as a currency. Unclear how price would move if BTC was only used for store-of-value only.

In Venezuela, people go to jail under treason laws if they get caught mining. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/venezuela-is-one-of-the-worl...
Show HN: Nearly 50% of the tensorflow tagged questions on SO are unanswered
Knee-jerk reaction laws should be banned altogether. Stop making things illegal for no good reason.
I've shared a question with tensorflow tag on stackoverflow. It was not answered and the number of views is very low. Then I noticed that, many of the questions asked before me share the same fate as my question. Many of them were unanswered. 19,225 questions were shared with the Tensorflow tag and 9,391 were unanswered.
Well, bless your heart.
Apart from their absolute garbage EFI (not UEFI) implementation, there are no problems with running Linux on anything that runs OS X.

As far as EFI goes, Apple does not allow you to boot USB. Apple allows you to boot the OS X installer via firewire, but nothing else. This means your only option to install Linux, Windows, *BSD, etc. is from a CD/DVD or from a new partition on the hdd/ssd.

Thankfully, you can shrink the root partition in OS X while running OS X, so there is a way to install Linux without optical media, but it is complicated.
Partial.lenses – Composable and efficient data manipulation for JavaScript
Security Vulnerability Reporting Policy
It seems like you won't comment according to the guidelines, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder why it works for me and not for you. I guess I'll have to guess what in my usage pattern allows that :-)

Maybe I accessed the base URL without the query parameters.
He invested in Stripe back when no one else would and then helped connect them with Elon Musk, who also invested. That was long ago, however and it's difficult to know what he did internally as a part-time partner last year.
My first ZFS install (almost 10 years ago) was on 512MB of RAM, sometimes including a Gnome 2 desktop. People get the RAM requirement thing out of proportion - yes it helps, because it's caching, and caching helps - and ZFS is a little bit heavier on metadata than other file systems (chiefly because of the checksums), but a lot of the online advice is IMO overly cautious, probably because you're giving advice to some random person on the internet and you have no real idea about how to characterize the workload that their storage system will be exposed to, and probably neither do they.
Beating Magnus seems very out of whack with the rest of his goals. Things like solving a Rubik's Cube in 14 seconds, and 40 pull ups are descent results, but far from world champion status. Maybe I missed the part where they explained why he was so ambitious on this challenge.
What kind of tough decisions does an "iOS expert" need to take?

Mobile app development is becoming quite clear cut, one only needs to read the docs and know the APIs.
Any sort of forum that enforces rampant censorship, mods personally scold users for looking into another users post history, and flags/deletes/bans any comments touching taboo topics (politics is the big one here) makes it very difficult to have a decent conversation.

Couple that with the anonymity and rampant upvote/downvote based on disagreements (My comments on this thread rapidly oscillate between -5 and +5 -- it's crazy how enormous the pro-Trump population on HN actually is and how blissfully Silicon Valley pretends they don't exist) in an attempt to silence ideas you don't like..

Yeah it's really fucked up. We need a new discussion forum format, that isn't so easily manipulated like HN and Reddit due to vote manipulation.
I believe the weird comments are the result of toddlers randomly tapping predictive keyboard suggestions on their parent's iPads as they watch the videos. The fact that they hit "post" after typing their nonsense markovian comments is a statistical inevitability given the millions of views of each video.

Though, if one wanted to hide secret messages on YouTube comments, that'd be the place to put them.
If Thiel was removed solely for political reasons, that is outrageous imo. I hope this post isn’t just to deflect potential criticism.
Yes - since nobody actually learns telephony any more, and it's a byzantine mess ... tons of guys earning a living being experts in domains we thought were going to go away ...

But in 20 years from now, we'll still be installing classic land-lines, in which case, they'll still be around.

Idea: build a wireless framework with the robustness of land-line efficiency - good enough for 9/11 calls and emergencies etc..
The video taken by the "harassers" at vidcon seems pretty clear.

Were they forbidden from attending vidcon because of their alleged history of harassment of the panelists? No.

Do they get kicked out of vidcon for violating the rules? No.

Does the panelist violate the rules by calling them out and insulting them publicly? Yes.

So... let's say Sargon and his ilk are terrible people. Shall we destroy the rule of law to "get" him?

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Bolt

---

Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

---

I am disturbed by the fascination with witch-hunts. My attempts here to ask people to explain themselves have resulted in no explanations (of course). Just accusations.

Well, if those people are so bad, then the rule of law should allow them to be banned and/or punished. If they're not that bad, then the rule of law should be followed. If we're not going to follow the rule of law, then why pretend to have rules?

Maybe I'm weird... but none of that makes any sense to me.
That's only if you store your database naively in IPFS. There's nothing preventing you from using more sensible protocols for serializing the DB to storage to allow for better access times.

And it wouldn't require loading from the network every time. Only the first time on some computer. IPFS also allows pinning content so you can improve your access time that way if you control a physical network of computers. You can strategically place your personal IPFS based CDN (using pinning) and then local computers will have very fast access to the data, which will remain cached for future queries or be pinned if absolutely needed.
Well, Git was indeed created to serve Linux kernel development. So decentralized access for the people writing patches all over the world was useful. However, when companies started using source control for their monorepos which developers access through a work network or VPN decentralization takes a backseat to business concerns. Different use cases and all that.
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Their are some financial implications as to how much and what long term care insurance to have.
> This is totally absurd. Bitcoin has no impact on the existence of aircraft carriers, diplomats, and social/class mobility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
I love wired devices too. Especially for anything that doesn't have to get moved around. (Mouse, Keyboard, etc...)

Charge management is a pain in the butt. For anything wireless I like to be able to plug it in while I'm using it. Too many bluetooth headphones won't even work while they are plugged in...
what's up with HN and these personal-marketing puff pieces? read almost like any old Wired article.

it is a well written fiction, that stretches reality far and wide. Should be in the literature section of the newspaper. why is this even near news?

spoiler: He lost every single game he ever played with his month of "training". And here is a golden passage on the "article":

"""
Max played three matches [with amateurs in a park] that day. He lost all three. The only sign his month of preparation might not be an epic waste of time was that one of his opponents happened to be wearing jeans made by G-Star—the same G-Star that once sponsored Magnus Carlsen.
""" ...what does that even mean?!