skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it allows to emancipate yourself completely from financial institution"

No, it means trusting Bitcoin exchanges in addition to your bank, because at the end of the day you still need to at least get enough money to pay your taxes. So until you live under a government that recognizes Bitcoin as money, you still need to cash out at least sometimes. Even if you somehow have no taxes to pay, you still need to do business with people who do, and they are either going to demand the government's money or they are going to take the relative value of Bitcoin to that money into account when setting prices.

You seem to underestimate the power of governments, especially when it comes to money. Governments tend to enforce laws dealing with taxes and debts, and those are the laws that give fiat currency its value.

"Japan...is the first big country to have a pro-cryptocurrency attitude"

Ironically, Japan is also the source of the clearest example of the role of debt laws in determining the value of money:

https://qz.com/1003609/bitcoins-soaring-price-means-mt-gox-c...

TLDR: MtGox is paying its creditors in Yen, despite having lost their BTC, because of the debt laws in Japan.
I love DOIs. If the bib format isn't too strict, I always include the doi and hyperlink it to dx.doi.org.

That way, if I need to check something in a reference quickly, I can just click the link in the bibliography.
Zooniverse: People Powered Research
Undocumented Immigrant Acquitted in Killing of Kate Steinle
This kind of reminds me of what I took away from Gerald Edelman's work ([0]).

The gist as I remember it was that he theorized that the cortex is composed of assemblies of neurons formed in development (in the womb, potentially with epi-genetic factors). Each assembly, just by chance of it's structure, is likely good at something. Over time, assemblies take up the tasks they happen to be good at and further specialize with experience.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Darwinism
(Disclaimer: I backed this)

I think the build quality and keyboard is absolutely key to this device; really if the keyboard isn't awesome, this device is a failure. Thankfully the developers appears to feel the same way. I hope to not be disappointed.
... wow. Instead of hashing the file contents, it just checked file size? Who came up with this algorithm?! There's plenty of applications that use files of fixed large sizes initialized at install, for performance reasons or just simply so if you're going to run out of space you do so during interactive installation, rather than silently breaking later on.
I wonder ... how much effort would it be to create a five foot wide spherical ball attached to a motored stand that had three doors all actuated via small servo motors which had tiny cameras attached such that when an on-board Raspberry PI responded to a voice command of "more yellow blocks please" the ball would rotate until the desired pieces tumbled out of one of the openings?
Bitcoin is not private like sotoshi imagined.
What sort of companies need people like me with empty YouTube/dribbble/github accounts?
Redmi 4A. There are some very interesting low end phones coming out of China.
Board games are back because the Euro game designers kept it alive during what was largely a board game dark age through most of the world. They broke back through into other markets, and re-invigorated creativity elsewhere.

There's been a ton of exciting developments in boardgames over the past few years. Legacy games introduced a whole new element to board games, starting with Risk Legacy, and richly continued by others, including Pandemic Legacy, which has reigned supreme at #1 on BoardGameGeek, the largest boardgaming website, for quite some time.

Dungeon crawlers that are more influenced by D&D and other pen and paper RPGs have been big, with things like Mage Knight, Descent, and more recently Gloomhaven being smash hits.

Board games with "AI" players, like Mansions 2e mentioned in the article, or the automata in Scythe, are influenced by video games in that you can even play single player against a psuedo-player, but not in many other fashions.

Even incredibly niche, boutique, and expensive games like Kingdom Death: Monster which is basically three games and a wallet draining miniature addiction in one very large box have become quite massive.
That the Army is considering using them at all is interesting.
This exists.

This approach takes other photos of the same scene to extend a cropped pic (see also MS PhotoSynth): http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/sq_photo_uncrop/

This uses a GAN to fill in missing parts of a pic. Those parts could be on the edge of the picture (although the paper doesn't explore that): http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~iizuka/projects/completion/data/c...
LPT: Don't share a social media link with sources who earn their money by manipulating votes. Not sure why they'd want to do that since they wanted to remain anonymous.

It is however good to see that Hackernews has a better detection system than Reddit :)
Think about it - he's 60, probably realized he is not going to achieve anything in life, likely worked a lot before for little benefit to himself (we have no clue if company promised things and later "forgot about them" etc.), so maybe golf was the only thing that was making his work bearable and kept him sane/happy/productive. Now compare it to finance guys, where banks pay them regular brothel visits to relieve their stress and make them more productive. I have more sympathies to this old man...
I clicked on this link hoping it was the French School of Mines ("Ecole des Mines").
One thing that I love about Dgraph (there are many) is that it is open-source and easy to run. If I want to play around on my machine or boot up a micro-service architecture via docker compose or minikube locally I can. Its flexibility that I prefer to have as a professional engineer in team/platform settings too, not just as lone-contractor or hobbyist.

For example at SSENSE we leverage Kubernetes but some pieces of infrastructure (actually quite a few) still live in AWS. Bringing up new environments of our Kubernetes resources is easy be it deployed or just local. But the AWS parts at least in our experience are encumbered by issues ranging from just slowness of setup, to permissions issues, Region/Zone issues, dealing with the complexity of another toolchain apart from Kubernetes (e.g. terraform), needing coordination with the Ops team which can lead to occasional hard blocks, and so on. All to say that having a database that is flexible to run where you want is awesome IMO.
I backed it and we've gotten regularly updates. I believe they are in production now, or very close to it. Of course they are late, but so are practically all crowd-sourced ventures. They have demoed prototypes on multiple occasion (I haven't see it) so AFACT, it's for real.
simpler-paper: automatic document generation/deployment tool
Consider Monopoly: it has an elimination mechanic but it's almost a mercy, because quite often in games you know from a few minutes in that you're not going to win. I'm thinking of race for the galaxy here: whoever's engine gets started first pretty much walks away with the game, but you still have to play twenty more minutes of the game.
Mostly sams club, dollar tree and Alibaba. Pretty much the same today, but I have met some people who allow me to source certain hand-made items for a good bargain.
the dream is alive
'Smart' displays?

Where I worked they wall-mounted large screen TVs. Windows 10 casted to them over wifi just fine.
Thanks for the help. The odds ratios are easier to interpret, but the big question I still have is how this shows a (statistically significant) difference between double-blind and single-blind reviews....
And it makes sense why it works so well. On a 2D screen, seeing data in linear rows and columns is the best option because it follows the same format we have been taught verbatim since birth. The first type of data processing a person does is learn to read. Left to right, each letter (column) represents a different sound (value), these letters build a picture, and the more of them there are the more information the story contains (debatable). Then we learn to build our own information by writing.

Then we move on to math, and we still do it with paper, almost as an extension of writing. When doing calculations in class it is natural to keep calculations and values in some type of invisible grid pattern that makes sense to the student. Then we get to the computer, and that format still follows.

Except that the first information processing a person does isn't reading at all. It's learning sounds and words, and we do that by listening and watching others do it. And the first thing we create isn't words on a page, it's likely something physical, in the form of building blocks or some other toy. This type of learning is great, but it can't be replicated well in a school system because it is expensive and doesn't scale well to the real world. If you're going to engineer and design a bridge, you're not going to start by making a bridge. So we're taught to make lines on paper that represent a bridge.

This is where (I hope) AR/VR becomes disruptive. An infinite amount of objects that can represent any piece of data on any scale in non space.

Think about how successful minecraft is. When I first played it made me realize how much creativity I had lost to pen and paper through no fault of my own. I was building logic gates without even realizing what formal logic was until I came to college.

Now make it engulf me, make it blank, and give me a wand and an in game terminal.
Interesting, I AM teaching 7 year olds about recursion, but I doubt any of them have seen Romanesco broccoli. Anyway, the example I use to demonstrate the fibonacci sequence is sunflower seeds.

I hope you got another job that you enjoy.
I dunno homie, this was pretty cut and dry on the systems it was trying to describe. It didn't try to be much more than it was. It has a touch of fear mongering, but these are real things in our world that people won't get a concept of without some nice gifs.
Things you can’t do in Rust: tail recursion
Reasons Why BBW Match Is the Best Choice for BBW People
I could see SD doing it, but I expected it was Colorado because they always struck me as having a tinge of the “hold my beer” attitude. They ran a class in high speed filming of explosions not too long ago. I get the feeling that the faculty of that place has some stories to tell.
I'm curious if people have any recommendations for good strategy iPad games based on board games. Catan is good. Carcassonne is good. Monopoly is painful.

What others do people play regularly?
I created a linux kernel dynamic binary translator [1] (think of it as being like an in-situ vmware esxi) using C++. The key was to not use anything that touches floating point. Mostly what I wanted was templates, atomics, and a few other nicities. Recently I got granary working on the 4.4.0 kernel (after a few manual tweaks here and there to the kernel source code and to some of granary's auto-generated files).

[1] https://github.com/Granary/granary
Yes they have to be able to update the system but in this case they are also able to update the firmware without asking which means anyone who can impersonate or coerce them can also update the firmware.
What is click bait about the title? The article does indeed attempt to document the general process for intercepting a ICBM.
People of Programming Languages
What are you, a schoolmarm? Shirk away, I say.
Your comment reminds me of Ken Thompson's speech which he gave upon receiving the Turing Award: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

(Reflections on Trusting Trust)
I work in a large manufacturing company that gets lots of data about the manufactured product...The business people received a single excel reports from a database. They wanted a fancy UI to export the data (more queries, pull from other databases, etc) into Excel because they do all their analysis in there.

I have no problems about it...less work for me, and they can do their work easily.
"Destabilizing Nation-states with Math", ha, one of the most insightful summaries of cryptocurrencies I have seen.
You've built nothing others can see that would make them want to hire you?
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Discovering typeclasses in Scala
Excel has a feature for pulling data stored in HTML tables into a sheet called "Web Queries"[0]. It also has a feature for automatically building these in the form of .iqy files. When I worked at Abbott Labs, it was a big deal to be able to offer export-to-Excel in a way that Excel could refresh automatically (or manually). This made it a breeze since we could register an .iqy serializer for a dataset and just give a download link to it in place of a CSV, JSON, or XML file.

[0] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-external-data-f...
In the Trump era, big business is becoming more political
China’s largest online publisher enchants investors and readers alike
Digital news outlets are in for a reckoning
Here is a rich text version of the same document: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/h...
I'm torn. I really want to say 'I'm not making childish bets with you'. But then I really want you to give me a BTC.

I'm not making childish bets with you.

You have an... interesting... view of labour relations that I haven't come across before. Did you say you were Argentinean?
he's 60, probably realized he is not going to achieve anything in life

If you're not rich, you haven't achieved anything.
Plant-based “meat” is so tasty that Europe’s meat industry has to bite back
Ask HN: How will we be getting people and payloads into orbit in 50 years?
Reusable rockets? Space elevator? Something else?
Why is this Hacker News?
Blue Apron co-founder steps down as CEO
Adam Savage has a great solution for storing hardware like bolts/nuts/bearings/etc., and I think it would work well for lego as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPSbF6kM9k
A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages
Looks like Google's own Google Clips -- https://store.google.com/us/product/google_clips?hl=en-US
National Exposure Index
I couldn't get past the first 6 or 7 paragraphs of self-promotion material. A TLDR/ TMSPM (too much self-promotion material) would be great.
My comment doesn't address whether physicist who mostly write software are prepared to do it, it addresses the fraction of physicists who are doing this.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15820451
Not as good as I want it to be. When we manufacture our laptop chassis here in Denver, Colorado we will have more control of battery size and will always prefer longer battery life
The amount of farming land destroyed for plants is far worse than grazing land however.
To be fair, Greece didn't have any control over its currency (the Euro).
? Unless you intend to fab your own RISC-V processor, once they become available, they will most certainly be priced competitively (or they won't sell). The first models will be available in 2018 and more will follow.
Spoilers: He dies at the end
A quick perusal of names from two universities I have been affiliated with, along with some of the organizations the signatories belong to, reveal that these are mostly emeritus business admin or finance professors.

Of course they're in favor of this, they don't have to worry about their graduate students anymore.
Tails is a smaller, specialized distribution that recently reached this milestone: https://tails.boum.org/news/reproducible_Tails/index.en.html

Given the goal of Tails to provide a private computing environment that leaves no traces on the host system after shutdown, it's especially valuable to be able to confirm that the source truly produces the same binary image that the site offers for download.

(If anyone from Tails is reading, please update libccid to 1.4.27!)
Pishevar is from Sherpa Capital.

It's odd how this story escalates its details; when I first skimmed it I didn't realize how far it would go. It starts with him putting his hand on the leg of a woman at a party. Then it moves on to sexual assault in his own home. It culminates with an arrest for rape, although he was released and so far has not been charged.
Vintage Cray Supercomputer Rolls Up to Auction
If it were really better, they wouldn't have to give it a deceptive name to get people to eat it.
That's cool! Do you know where I can find documentation of the "-t" option? The following is all I find, and I'm not sure what all the variants mean:

-t {PNG,EPS,SVG,ANSI,ANSI256,ASCII,ASCIIi,UTF8,ANSIUTF8}
specify the type of the generated image. (default=PNG)
IIRC there are a lot of period 5 transition metals in asteroids which are rare on Earth because they're heavy and sank into the core during the planet's formation. Specifically molybdenum, niobium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, and silver. Some of these have very interesting properties but the supply of all of them is pretty limited on Earth.
A bacterium has been engineered to make 'unnatural' proteins
As a big thinkpad fan, I must say the Pocket trackpoint had a lot of influence in my purchase decision :-)

Basically, I just want a device that I can use like my thinkpad (open it, and use command line tools or x86 software though wine). The GPD pocket is the first device that got me this "thinkpad" impression. Also, I do not want a bluetooth keyboard. I do not want to fiddle with batteries/paring/any other software issue.

The keyboard is my #1 concern. I tried an apple bluetooth keyboard with an ipad for a while -- I think that is the highest available quality/ease of use, but even that setup was not satisfying.

Besides storage issues (no removable storage!), the wwan and keyboard backlighting other bother me.

I will certainly buy a GPD Pocket2 when they come out, and a Gemini if they fix the screen. I am still looking for the right device.
So what kind of generative stuff does it "learn" from really really sparse data, or from random noise? Trained generative models can produce some crazy things, I wonder if something similar could work here.

Recursive geometric patterns perhaps?
There are already military versions of what you fear in production today that track motion.
Perhaps it is just me being tired, but I read for a few minutes and feel as if I skipped a null terminator on the last post I skimmed. I legitimately have no idea what I just read.

Can anybody summerize?
On the side note - a new initial setup was released today for Pop that may have fixed your account creation issue. I am sorry if you ran into problems with Pop.
The best non-core feature I ever added to my SaaS service remains live import/export to Google Sheets.

My customers are not finance people, but they were using ad-hoc spreadsheets extensively and most of them through G suite. By implementing bidirectional sync for both master data and outputs they have the best of both worlds.

The Google Drive and Sheets APIs (and especially the on-change push notification callbacks) are not a pretty sight but once the twisty maze of nested data structures, webhooks and OAUTH2 and what-have-you were successfully navigated we got an efficient, complete and stable solution that everyone's happy with.
Isn't this the streetfighter.io guy? Pass.
Would a plausible explanation of this be that one part of an image tells you a hell of a lot about another part of it? And that ConvNet structure captures that really well?
No kidding... this is a problem they created by hiding/obfuscating the URL scheme. If the majority of URLs you visit start with http:// or https://, then data: stands out like the proverbial sore thumb.
Q: I have tried starting up two IDE sessions - neither was successful. The IDE window shows a spinning Connecting graphic and never finishes initializing - waited 20 minutes both times. Cloud9 growing pains?
Good Point. I tried to convince someone very recently to go this route so I could piggy back and test on it as well :).
GS a decade ago had Excel connectors to its internal quant IDE/ORM/trading system.

It was pretty hacky, but you could pull prices for any security or book in the system, or call any options pricer, as long as the user had the right permissions.

Since the ORM had bindings to stuff like convex quadratic optimizers (IMSL), you could build spreadsheets that let users input linear constraints (e.g. I want to spend less than $50mm and buy between 0-5 units of X and 2-10 units of Y) and then plop the solution vector right back in their workflow. Basically magic to the user, and much better than Excel's 1D root-finder.

Most quants are notoriously bad at building UX, so this was often a much better solution than trying to write a dedicated tool from scratch.
Proof of Stake Is Better Than Proof of Work
You may like Dynalist.io which is inspired by Workflowy. I never used the latter but I really like the former.
Aren't DJI drones the best? The military applications of quadcopters seem obvious.
It would be, wouldn't it. Silly I didn't realize that right off the bat.

Can't imagine putting forward a proposal that wouldn't in essence be what you're doing, i.e. wrapping in JSX delimiters. Because attempting anything fancier than that would probably have edge cases for days, plenty of material for you to poke holes in.
It’s as likely as them giving up their HP-12Cs.
I meant no offense. I understand that the guy's story is a sad one, and that he could've spent the money more productively. He could've been a better person. None of that has anything to do with what happened to the money after he spent it, which was the point of my original comment. If the focus is on the guy and his behavior, and the money that comes in and out of his life, it says very little about how much that money is contributing to the economy. Like a lot of things, it's the economic network that matters, and his position in it, and not so much his direct marginal contribution to it (or lack thereof).

If he had been terminated without any severance, he might've still moved back home and never lived it down. And the money would've taken some other path through the economy, maybe a more productive one, maybe a less productive one. Either way, it wouldn't be pissed anywhere, it would just travel a different path through the network.
4chan is a good alternative. It has engaging comment threads and diverse interests. Really nice community and new memes. It's like the bleeding edge of the internet. /s
This was already posted here 4 hours ago [0], but got (very likely auto)killed with no upvotes. Me vouching for it and upvoting it 4 hours later isn't going to do much to revive that submission, so I'm taking the liberty to repost.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15820386
Yep - RISC-V is the best bet for full freedom
Indeed typo thanks!
Assuming your result set isn’t massive, it’s not very hard to have a 30-40 line array function (that takes a query) and returns a sql resultset.
I still watch videos if they're linked on other sites, or if I have a specific search, but I've given up just clicking video after video. I found myself spending more time than I would have liked.
The only one i do not recognize in some way is EPS. The rest are either image formats(PNG, SVG), or various character encodings (all the rest).
Just don't develop any hardware problems or you'll get stuck in a customer support loop around uninstalling and installing nvidia drivers. I haven't been able to use my oryx for about a year, and each time I ask support (the display doesn't turn on) they just advise removing and re-installing the nvidia drivers.
Tradition for Sale: On University Architecture
I think you may have missed the joke here. A pyramid scheme is an unsustainable business model where the gains accrue at the top. The fact the author built it in racket (a racket being another dishonest scheme) makes it all the funnier.