skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a 28" 4K and have used a 40" 4K TV for programming in the past.

The 40" had total crap quality but still had some advantages in terms of usable screen real estate.

There are a bunch of 40+ real monitors now though: Dell P4317Q, AOC C4008VU8, LG 43UD79-B, Philips BDM4037UW - they are all using the same panels as TVs I assume, but hopefully the higher quality ones, and their electronics will be designed for computer use.
Putting aside the contributors and developers I think people invested based on one theme - chasing gains. The technology sounded great, I imagine people spent some time learning about an area of computing they really had no understanding of but the technology was probably far from the main reason they chose to invest. I doubt that the economics came into the decision making process at all.

Back in 2014 it made sense to divest a small proportion from bitcoin if you made significant gains. Fresh, crypto-wealthy people with little to no investing experience (or even basic wealth management) tended to look to new cryptocurrency projects rather than fiat vehicles for divestment. Say what you will about that line of thinking, but it paid off for anyone that held onto their presale ether. At the time there were many new similar projects running presales. Some of those are now at a loss based on bitcoin's value, others are breaking even or failed and ethereum has gone parabolic.

The going rate if you participated near the beginning of the ethereum presale was 2000ETH/BTC which was ~$600 at the time. This was an easy gamble for anyone with double digit bitcoins and the foresight to invest conservatively. One bitcoin invested in the ethereum presale is now worth nearly $1M.

Does it make sense invest in this space now as an independent investor? Definitely not. The signal to noise ratio is god awful, the economics don't make sense (to me, at least), the sharks are circling and it is going to take a long time for the technology to catch up with the hype.

When we see crashes of epic proportions I believe it is going to bring heavy-handed regulation and many are going to lose everything. People will be looking for blood and they will look to projects like ethereum for their pound of flesh.
I would disagree, because the concept of "fair" doesn't really exist - every person has his own perception of what "fair" is. Therefore, it's much more useful to build society on concepts that we can actually agree on.
Direction and production mean a lot to storytelling, too, though. It's not enough just to write a good script.
What if the BBC's politics (ie where it advertises all its jobs) were aligned with the Mail rather than the Graun? Would you still be so keen, or would you be among those calling for it to be abolished?
There are real world hotel, many in Africa, which do precisely this.
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You create lots of host accounts, or just buy them and change the attached bank accounts. This at least used to be very easy.

For many this can be better than e.g. Stripe because AirBnB supports payouts to far more countries, making it easier to get lots of drop accounts. They even do WU in some countries.

I would also expect AirBnB to be slower to act on chargebacks than Stripe & Co.

I wouldn't expect this to be super scalable, but on the other hand while a few million a month is nothing for AirBnB it is an OK amount even when split across 100 eastern european guys.
A bit at a tangent, but I was recently looking for software (open source or commercial) that could help me develop a 'interior design / planning' editor. I.e.: given a specific area (outside dimensions), allow to drag walls, doors, etc to create a floorplan, and given that, allow more detailed planning like kitchen, bathroom appliances, etc. Ideally, this would result in a 3d-model which could be imported in a tool like Amazon Sumerian to do a 3d-walkthrough. Any advice on where to look?
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Sadly, this CamelCase style is too entrenched in the academia and is very often present in books that use Python but written by academics, not professional Python developers.
Few researchers have that kind of time.
DOCSIS "modems" are layer 3 devices as well actually.

The DOCSIS standard requires filtering by IP address and port [1] built in to the modem, instead of at the CMTS. This is back-asswards, as a hacked modem can ignore the filtering, but it's part of the spec.

There are multiple sources of jitter in the puma 6/5: more channels = more jitter, more flows = more jitter/complete failure at ~2000 separate active flows in a 1 second period.

[1]: http://www.cable-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manage... - Annex F Protocol Filtering (Normative)
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Isn't the stuff that comes out of the OCaml compiler byte code?

As far as I can tell, OCaml has a GC and WASM (at the moment) doesn't so this seems like the only viable solution to me.
The articles wasn't saying that AlphaGo Zero was a marginal improvement. On the contrary, I think it was saying that the type of improvement AlphaGo offered is an outlier because it approached the task in a fundamentally different way (especially with AlphaGo Zero where it didn't use training data).

I think the primary argument is that much of the industry has generally not been doing that sort of research for ground-breaking moon-shots. Instead most AI researchers focus on optimizing for metrics which lead to small and safer short-term improvements in a particular niche application as opposed to pursuing large and riskier long-term ones.

I've seen this same line of criticism before of the way in which AI systems have been generally designed for decades and to me it rings true. Things like the Turing award arguably lead researchers astray. Essentially, the crux of the argument is that most people focus on climbing trees to achieve success when the real goal is reaching the moon or they build better springs when the real goal is achieving flight. [1] Both show some short-term improvements on certain heuristics, but they are obviously the wrong approach if you want serious breakthroughs.

I think it's a valid criticism that most of us are still focusing too much on the wrong metrics to make many serious advances. If you look at AI, there haven't really been that many major breakthroughs. We just haven't been all that creative and most advances are ultimately tweaks on existing technology or involve throwing more data through deeper neural nets. Back-propagation (popularized by Geoffrey Hinton) for deep-learning with neural nets was a big deal and an important idea. Since then, there hasn't been much that's earth-shattering. Generative adversarial networks are arguably a big idea. LSTM as well. The work by Naftali Tishby's group on understanding what's going on with information in neural nets is a significant development. Hinton's capsule networks also seem like they may be a big idea. A few people have recently started publishing some work on building AI that builds better AI. However for the most part, it seems like the vast, vast majority people in AI aren't aiming to do any fundamentally ground-breaking things. They mostly look around at the existing body of research and slightly tweak the tools that seem most suitable for the problem domain they are working on. (This isn't entirely surprising for a number of reasons involving the incentives in the industry, but it is something worth discussing.)

Personally, I don't think that it's necessarily a bad thing that we've been sluggish with AI advances. You don't necessarily want to hand power tools to children. I think our society is unfortunately full of unwise and unkind people with already more power than they should have. Our social institutions for distributing power wisely and responding to abuse of power are far less mature than our technology and I suspect the risks of abusing advanced technology dwarf the enormous benefits they can bring.

[1] https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/shieber/Biblio/Papers/loebner-r...
Proof of Work simply facilitates existing capital to proportionately take over the network and supply.

It becomes notibly problematic if the total distribution is produced within a small window of time, locking out entire swaths of the population to be at the whim of horders (assuming there would be a genuine demand for the supply).
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Really? It seems like they keep refactoring all the time. Feels like Duke Nukem whenever, which switched engines a couple of times too during development.
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Totally agree. You are more than ten football stadiums right.
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I meant that a lot of developers are now treating IE11 as the lowest supported version, so having it is a must. Having two branches (one without IE11) is probably the best.
Life, and indeed humanity, would survive such a war. Modern civilization would not.

For a realistic look at the aftermath, I’d suggest the novel War Day (which is set after a very limited nuclear way, but that’s already pretty bad), and the online alt-history timelines The Cuban Missile War and Protect and Survive.

Edit: and a really good analysis of an all-out war in the late 1980s: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html
There's no evidence to support your claim.

Even if one provided blockchain transaction logs, they might just be moving funds to wallets owned by the same user.
Here's one of the better compilations I've found:

http://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-movies-in-china-201...

I'm not an expert on this, but I think the China-set scenes are generally included in the U.S. theatrical cut, Skyfall's sniper fight in Shanghai being an example [0]. I did a little more Googling and found there were a few examples of scenes meant only for China and left out of the U.S. release. Iron Man 3 apparently had 4 more minutes in which Dr. Wu gets some time to hawk Chinese products [1]. Apparently, some notable Chinese bloggers/moviegoers didn't like the obvious shilling [2].

There are far more examples of things being cut out than being added. In Skyfall's Shanghai scene for example, Chinese censors apparently didn't like the bit where Bond kills a security guard. The listed reasoning for the cuts are heavy-handed to the point of amusement, e.g. ""Mission: Impossible 3" dropped a shot of clothes on clotheslines in Shanghai for the Chinese cut. Apparently, the lack of dryer ownership is a sensitive issue." [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMW4dN5sGb0

[1] https://kotaku.com/why-many-in-china-hate-iron-man-3s-chines...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39m85puOQok

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/18/407619652/...

edit: Apparently Looper, which changed one of its locales from Paris to Shanghai, has extra scenes for Chinese audiences:

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the_extra_looper_scenes_y
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As long as your eyelashes don't touch the display, it's ok.
Some people have cut their long eyelashes to be able to get a larger field of view in Virtual Reality...
This is so cringeworthy, I can barely watch.
If you read the science fiction series "The Three-Body Problem" (highly recommended), it makes a very compelling argument that fundamental research is the most important investment in the future.

For example, fusion drives, not traditional stored rocket propellant engines, will be necessary to navigate between planets and the outer solar system. Also, existing known behaviors/laws of physics aside, the book posits that colonization of other planets/stars in the universe requires achieving light speed travel (along with hibernation technology).

However, the other argument the book series makes is that there needs to be a strong motivator to get all the countries and economies of the world to focus on fundamental research and applying it.
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Abolished but it's never going to get close to being that gross.

They'll have plenty of spin and perspective that I disagree with but the rest of our media is absolutely festering. Anything that isn't owned by an 80 year old billionaire is welcome to me. They simply can't be any worse.
Projects like DeepBlue and AlphaGo are not fundamental innovation nor research, they are just PR stunts that show the expertise of the company making them.

TBH, winning a game of chess or go has little value in itself, except for the limited market of selling chess or go software. The reason they are doing that is mostly for publicity. IBM makes computers, and they show how good they are at it by having one beat top players at chess, and Google makes machine learning based products and they use AlphaGo to show how good they are at it.

Chess and go don't drive innovation, they are just a side effect of real innovation.
I had the same reaction when reading Time recently.

Has anyone gone back through the archives to determine if this has always been the case?
I use it as base image for docker-compose.
Ok let’s get down to it. Are you prominent or especially knowledgeable in the specific area discussed? The first irony to avoid here is that you might not be an expert because it’s possible to do advanced work in your areas that’s quite removed from this. That’s true for all research, it’s endlessly splintered into sub fields. I forget who is commonly said to be the last person to know most all of science, was it Newton?

Secondly, even when people are wrong here they don’t seem any more intransigent or arrogant on average. The point is I would assume they are acting in good faith, however I can’t be sure because you criticize people without specific citations. You use citations in your papers I assume?

Let me change course and try and make this as productive as possible by looking at your comments in the most positive light. You are eminent in the field and somehow found yourself reading terribly uninformed assertively stated comments.

What a lost opportunity to correct and inform. What you could say in only a matter of minutes, could seem invaluable to those passionately interested in the subject. I’m sure it would be appreciated, raise the quality of discourse, and may help spread a more informed and accurate lay perspective of the field.

What would Susskind do? If he were here reading comments on a black hole article (for a reason I can’t imagine)? I don’t know him personally but whenever I listen to him lecture I’m always impressed by how willing he seems to share his genius with people interested in learning.
In today's Docker the biggest benefit I can see is Networking that container with other. Docker networking is quite powerful and having the container auto-join the network and have it routable from any other machine without having to even know what machine(s) it is actually running on is a nice thing.

Being able to use consistent tooling with the rest of the containers is another plus.

> But when we were faced with the option of using another smaller OS, like alpine, we decided not do it because we would give up a lot of flexibility that the OS was providing us.

Alpine is getting easier to work with. It's been a while since I haven't been able to find a pre-built package for something I needed for instance.
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Not happened yet?

>The next seminar will be on Tuesday, November 28th at 4:30pm in Building 200, Room 034.
Streaming obviously matters to a great many people. The success of Netflix speak for it self, so ignoring it is dooming the idea from the start. This is something that needs critical mass, otherwise it will not work.
Maybe because it wasn't recorded yet? Check again in few days.

"The next seminar will be on Tuesday, November 28th at 4:30pm in Building 200, Room 034."
I don't think Tesla or Elon have ever said their goal was to make money. Their mission statement has always been "To accelerate the adoption of sustainable transportation."

"Whenever you have an unpriced externality you can't quite rely on the market to do the right thing. So in order to have electric vehicles come sooner than they otherwise would... electric vehicles were always going to be the long-term transportation mechanism, but to make that day come sooner, you have to bridge the gap with innovation. That was the goal with Tesla is to try to serve as a catalyst to accelerate the day, the day of electric vehicles. And I think when all is said and done, I am hopeful that historians will look back on Tesla and say that Tesla advanced that by at least 10 years, which that would be a huge victory of mine... in my mind."

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpcJ3jX-2DA

It's the same with SpaceX, even though its been profitable I don't think they have ever celebrated that. They keep aiming to burn money towards getting to Mars which itself is another money pit.

I think Elon is genuine, he's actions do follow his words. He doesn't care about money, he cares about advancing humanity for the thrills and exploration.
You can certainly do readable proofs in Coq the way you would do them in Isabelle, but this requires stating intermediate states explicitly (with assert e.g.) and Coq users rarely do that (mainly because readability is not their goal, I guess).
From the OP: "computations which current computers cannot replicate." I was just explaining a bit more why this is so.

If it matters at all, I've just finished a PhD in quantum computing.
You can also "buy" the movie on Chinese marketplaces for ¥10 (~$1.5) and the seller will message you a Baidu Cloud link with the movie.
Remarkably few pictures for a post titled "What <x> Looks Like".
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Lumberyard is a forked version of CryEngine, which Star Citzen was already using (fairly heavily modified for 64 bit precision) so the move to Lumberyard wasn't as big as it seems. They do however refactor other systems like items and inventory quite often which seems to be slowing down development although the new versions do seem like improvements.
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There's always someone who dictates how you're gonna use your own computer. Be there MS or RedHat or whomever maintains the distro you're using.
The article states:

"You need to elevate this beast vertically otherwise you’ll be craning your neck down to look at it."

A 40 inch TV is at least 50cm high. You should not be looking up - it's very bad for your neck. Looking down is no problem. The upper edge of the monitor should be at eye level.
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I think this is really great but IMHO college is too late for this. Personal finance should be taught in middle and high schools just like health classes.

When I was 18 and a freshman in college I saw some crazy decisions including using student loans to put a down payment on a car or taking out private loans for spending money.
Right. With the problem that it's usually impossible to know when those factors will kick in.
But they are not really competitors. Bitcoin is digital gold. It may survive without any innovation in the future. For payment it is being distrupted by currencies like Dash. Ethereum is supposed to be a DApp platform, but because of its scalability problems there is a high chance that it will be distrupted by something like EOS. (The price of EOS skyrocketed after Vitalik's presentation about Ethereum scaling plans. Funny thing is that Vitalik even had a funny slide, where he jokingly stated that Ethereum 2.0 is obviously EOS.) (Because every mention of Dash results in downvote on each crypto related forum except a Dash forum, and the same is true for EOS, this comment will be probably downvoted to hell. But I don't care about my HN karma anymore.)
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Not sure why you're downvoted (people don't like swear words?). As a "my first interpreter" project Brainfuck is really quick, fun and could motivate you to explore the topic further.
I wasn't into the Mac scene in '94 can someone explain? My whole time using Macs clones were fought every step along the way. I can't tell if this video is pro licensing or anti-clone...

This reminds me of near the end of the dotcom bubble where startups were making these kind of videos. There was one where the whole team was at a rented mansion doing a lip-sync. I wish I could find it but I think it got wiped from the internet after backlash. I remember it showed employees lounging around a pool.

Edit: a few minutes googling for that video I mentioned and I realized we may have finally hit a point where you can be forgot online. Not because the content disappears but because there is so much new content / noise that finding anything more than a few weeks old is very difficult.
Early miners are exerting less energy and less work to produce more coins.

The difficulty curve often further benefits early miners to be taking minimal risk when the design is reverse logarithmic.
I know a company that uses facial recognition in nursing homes to keep track of residents.
The issue is time frame. Chanos smells blood in the water for the upcoming quarter(s).

The question he is going to have to face is whether he can stay solvent longer than Tsla stock price is irrational.

My bet is he stays in 2-3 quarters until he makes his kill and then exits.
All that nerd culture love stuff in the beginning bugged me enough that I didnt want to read the rest of the article. For some of us this is a career and we dont really play into to the whole nerd is beautiful movement.
Some additional comments about the review versus what's actually in the book. Here is a short list of SOME of the stories told in the book:

- The birth of e-learning / computer-based education

- The creation of time-sharing (not at MIT)

- The invention of the gas-plasma flat-panel display for PLATO

- The invention of touch screens for the PLATO display

- How seeing an early prototype of the plasma display changed Alan Kay's life and led to the vision of the Dynabook

- The secret the founders of Xerox PARC did not what you to ever know (imagine a completely different Silicon Valley today for one thing)

- The first instance of government cyber-censorship: in 1973, the Nixon White House wanted to shut down ARPANET and PLATO due to people posting messages advocating for Nixon's impeachment

- How early multiplayer games evolved quickly on PLATO

- The rise of the hacker culture on PLATO in the 70s

- The first multi-user chat room Talkomatic appears in 1973

- So does instant messaging, in 1973

- So do message forums in the form of PLATO Notes in 1973 (which would directly lead to Lotus Notes)

- PLATO quickly became a teeming social hangout online, with
addictive games and early net.celebrities

- The first MUDs (multi-user dungeons) appear on PLATO long before anywhere else, despite what the history says

- PLATO developed its own set of emoticons/emoji nearly 10 years before the :-) appeared elsewhere

- How Control Data Corporation botched its opportunity to own personal computing and online services multiple times.

There's a ton more. Read the book.
Modern C++ with RAII checks all of your boxes except for web backends. (Though I've heard good things about WT.)

Disclosure: I only write software for scientific computing and have no interest or experience in web development.
HPC is 40% iowait, your daily desktop tasks are up to 90%.

More specialised hardware with big on-board caches is an easy way to gain perf
The GUI is reminiscent of that of goocreate: https://app.goocreate.com https://learn.goocreate.com
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I read that this is because we evolved as hunter gatherers, walking and scanning the ground ahead for possible food. Our optimum standing posture is looking straight ahead or slightly down
This sort of long-sightedness is usually correctable.

Though I’m dreading the day I have to get varifocals.