skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article gets some technical details wrong but does point the way of what I think are blockchains big use cases.

I took the edX blockchain for business class that covers these use cases and has some hands on exercises - not much programming, but experimenting with Hyperledge projects. I am interested in a different use case http://hyperledgerai.com but I have not made much progress yet.
There are well-known techniques that work pretty well to shrink neural nets a lot while keeping almost all of their performance. See Geoffrey Hinton's model distillation papers.

The first AlphaGo paper had a system that used tons of computation, and was followed up by one that used much less and worked even better. Not speaking for Google, but I think it's a bit of a race to publish great results first. I wouldn't be surprised to see something better than this that uses 1000 times less resources published in a year or two, just like what happened with Go. First prove it's possible, than figure out how to make it much more efficient.
How to build a City that doesent swarm with mosquitos? Design the sponge to kill live near the surface
Chess.com forum thread https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/stockfish-dethroned
Essentially yes, but that can be established through other channels in legal proceedings involving large, well established actors.

An ev-cert tells the user that the operator of a site has taken pains to make themselves legally accountable, and have confirmed details about juridistiction, legal entity, liason, etc. to the CA, which in turn connects cryptographic non-repudiation to legal non-repudiation (i.e. a signature).

All this is to state that with EV, every http response is basically signed and dated by the legal organisation that operates the site (grossly simplified, but sufficient for this argument). This signals where and how any dispute is to be arbitrated and settled (officially, and possibly legally), and conversely how seriously the security and integrity of the interaction is considered.

The ev-cert acknowledges legal exposure, and therefore it also informs users of legal exposure.
University fundraising from individuals generates over $30 billion every year (see CASE.org). Even with an endowment, Wikipedia would likely continue to fundraise. Donations are proof to funders that the institution is valued.
Maybe they could both appeal to the Corporate Court on Zurich-Orbital?
Skeptical of IOTA.

Build on promises that have no proof: Coordinator can be disabled, scaling.

Also, it pretends to be open-source but you can't build it yourself because they won't release their real code out of fear of 'copying'...

I like the lack of PoW though, a foundation issuing funds at regular times could fulfill this function without wasting a world of energy.

DISCLAIMER: rode a 50% gain wave and sold.
Currently yes. But if there's enough interest. I shall start working on compiling Spotify albums. YouTube will remain the default option though since it's open and doesn't require registration.
Nitpick: You just described a way to enforce it. For privacy reasons I would go that route anyways.
Great post. Its key ideas are:

* A dollar has different value to a customer depending on where it falls on the customer's financial statements.

* Some dollars require a more effort to earn than other dollars.

* A dollar today is worth more than a dollar next year.

The post is filled with examples of these three principles.
With what purpose? Surely nobody would voluntary use that?
Yes, that what I meant. But the small number of instructions on risc-v means less hardware to implement it. If it wins on code size and micro-ops but has far fewer instructions to deal with, it should result in smaller circuitry to implement. So far it has been implemented with less area and power consumption than ARM cores of similar performance and there doesn't seem to be a reason it can't scale to bigger/faster cores the same way x86 has.
I've been using Nightly (currently v.59) for several months on Linux, and I can't honestly remember the last time it crashed.
It's astounding to me how these articles and videos get passed around without some cursory fact-checking.

EA's revenue at the end of the last fiscal year was nearly five billion dollars. I do believe the $800m quote about FIFA is correct, but that puts it at around 20% of total revenue, not the 80% or so this article asserts.

Don't ever assume that Some Random Guy On Youtube has his numbers correct. If CGP Grey (or someone as respected) does a video about this, he/they will probably get it right, but I don't trust many others to do this kind of analysis without getting the numbers wrong.

To further highlight the silliness of the original video, it includes some assertions about the cost of game development - EA has claimed it's going up, the author notes that EA's publicly available R&D expenses have gone down in the last four years, therefore the cost of developing games has gone down. This is a completely false claim, because the number of games EA has released has gone from 20+ per year to less than 10. The cost per game has gone way, way up.

(I'm not going to take a position on loot boxes here because I spent seven years working on games that had them and I don't want to get into that debate right now.)
Exactly! But... Why get so angry with people that loves meat burger and don't agree that "veggie burgers" are burgers? Unless they go out and attack veggie restaurants, they are not wrong.

Moving this logic to social dynamics, if the majority of the population don't agree two person of the same sex forming a couple is a marriage, why get so angry at this? It is counterproductive as it helps the right wing join forces irrationally around a common ground. People that don't agree with this discussion are not all "cis-gendered white males".
How so? I am sure that the certificate is valid until next February. Do you have any issues with Let's Encrypt?
Scaling a Blockchain vs. Scaling a Tangle
The problem isn't flooding, the problem is that people built the city in the wrong place.
Ask HN: How has meditation helped you?
What area's of your life has had the biggest impact due to meditation? What type of meditation you do? How frequently and how much duration? Comparison between daily practice vs long duration retreats?
The only people who are actually serious about creating alternatives to major social media networks are alt-right (for lack of a better word) who have been banned from these services.

Of all these alternatives, I think bitchute.com is really innovative in that it has a Bittorrent video viewer that solves the bandwidth usage problem by going p2p. Not a lot of stuff on there yet. For now, that site is mostly full of political content that would get banned, or at least demonitized, on YouTube.

I have a hard time getting over the irony that the alt-right are going to be the ones to save the open Internet while the rest of Silicon Valley sits around and does nothing because they need to be protected by the machines of loving grace [1] that are the vast content moderation and filtering apparatus of the major social networks.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines...
Estimates put it at about 6.5 mpg not enough to make up for the exponential way that their weight increases the damage they cause.
There's a huge irony that Google, who has spent millions of dollars investing in net neutrality supporting organizations and astroturfing 'grassroots' efforts to allegedly protect the open web is blocking users from a website based on the device accessing it for anticompetitive business reasons.
Erlang has a really nice solution here by using a separate heap per Erland "process", and because they're owned by that process, can do a copying/compacting GC without having to take any kind of locking. Ruby's Guilds could adopt a similar idea and avoid STW GC there too.
All points aligned with conventional wisdom, IMHO, bar one: that it's easier to sell cost savings than revenue gains. Revenue gains can be quantified accurately, because revenue is recorded in all businesses. Cost savings, especially for staff time, can be much harder to measure.
The original comment was:

"The same willful ignorance of existing examples is also applied to ..."

I was merely pointing out that haggy's comment ("I would love to see hard statistical evidence that less guns = less deaths...") was an exact example of this willful ignorance. The fact that we are discussing gun death/violence isn't really the point.

The point is that there are policies/laws working in other areas of the world and its kinda silly to outright dismiss them because "its different here" etc.

There will always be violent criminals. My belief is if there are less firearms, there are less choices for those criminals to easily commit violence. I would think survival chances when a criminal is attacking with a knife are much higher than if they had a gun.
> As a content provider, you should be allowed to put whatever restrictions on it that you want - just like the real world.

In the real world, I can sell you a paper magazine or give it to you for free. I cannot prevent you from ignoring the ads or hiring someone to cut them out with scissors.

If a site wants to require me to pay in order to access it, that's valid. But if they want to say "you must instruct your computer to download and display our ads", that's not valid, IMO.

My browser is an agent that works for me. The server is an agent that works for the site. We should each be free to instruct them as we wish.
4.1k vs. 4.8k

The A11 is running at 2.4Ghz. The i7 in the single-thread test at 3.1Ghz (actually up to 4.1Ghz). Cycle for cycle the A11 is faster than the fattest Intel chip.

Which is insane. I am no Apple booster, but this is quite an incredible switch up. With a fatter TDP budget (the A11 has a TDP of something like 5W, the i7-7920HQ a TDP of 45W) they could not only increase the clock ceiling, they could start copy-pasting the big core.

A few years back people were talking about Apple starting to move their chip designs to their laptops and desktops. It sounded insane. Now it's actually entirely possible if they can get their software stacks and targeting all working.
2 reasons:

1. Browsers don't support JS modules
2. It's more efficient for browsers to request a single file than a bunch of smaller modules. So even if you use something like browserify, which dynamically loads modules in the browser, you end up with much longer load times because of all the overhead with each HTTP request.
Because outside of Russia's Yandex that works well only in Russia and China's Baidu that works well in China, there's no other alternative. That "etc" in your sentence is not an "et cetera".

Bing is the only game in town for Google alternatives.

Here's a sample of what can happen: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/15/bing_microsoft_duck...
As a social dynamics that evolved for safer copulation and procreation, what in 2 people bonding together looks like a marriage? You can pretend that they are just like every other couple (fake until 'we' make it?), but this is exactly what I call fake.
We sure hope so!
Surgical Patients May Be Feeling Pain–and (Mostly) Forgetting It
I think you mean to refer to another track from that album, "The Irony of It All"
No, Iceland won’t pay you for marrying an Icelander
The recruiting/placement industry is in need of innovative ideas like this. Too often people get hired by companies they don’t even like, only to end up leaving soon after.
Yeah, unfortunately you cant do a checksum on physical ingredients.
The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj Hotel at TEDxNewEngland (2012)
My parents want to watch Amazon Prime on their TV and are not hugely technical. Plugging the little Fire TV dongle is _way_ easier than hacking something together with an HTPC box.

The Nvidia Shield might be a valid alternative, but it's hard not to just recommend they use the Fire TV dongle and be done with it.
Kentico Cloud hosts the content inventory/management part, the frontend is hosted on your end. Not aware of any possibilty to host content management part yourself.
Was disappointed to see it was based around YouTube clips, however, a wonderfully great idea.
We have many different teams that work in different domains and use different technologies. You can take a look at https://jobs.netflix.com to see if there's anything you would love doing.

My team, for example, builds the user interface for TV devices. It is a single page app that we craft using JavaScript and React. The same code runs on hundreds of different devices, including game consoles, smart TVs, cable boxes, and other HDMI-connected devices.

The TV UI team looks for seasoned software engineers who build UIs and we come from a variety of backgrounds: web, desktop, mobile, embedded devices.
Well, congratulations on gaming a system based on trust. You can try to edit Wikipedia too and make Steve Jobs chinese if you want.
Are you both talking about the Talos POWER9 or is a Talon I can't Google for?
Not read yet - does he aspire to make the things you're writing off as unmeasurable, measurable?
Exactly, retention is a hot topic these days. Jobiki is set out to solve that by creating a longer lasting relationship from the start. Thank you for your feedback!
This is spot on.

Otherwise every decision would just be made through a review of data and only the first country to make a massive change would be venturing into the unknown while everyone else could simply observe what happens and decide to follow suit if the outcome is favorable.

Being in the US you see identity politics quite clearly. People simply vote by who supports abortion and who doesn't. To them the rest of the platform doesn't matter, but this one issue is so critical that they simply look at it alone and nothing else.

If you look at many of the votes on key issues you will notice that they aren't passed 90 to 10, they are usually 55 to 45, if you are lucky, or even closer. Given how close these votes are it's a surprise anything ever changes at all.
btw : wunderlist will be shutdown by Microsoft

https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/04/19/introducing-micros...

in the "What'nest part"
I'm all for this but...shouldn't the person be like...a person?
one reason is enough for me. they are boring and it seems like the only reason people make those is to get more emails for their database.
I would be a terrible counter person. I wouldn't sell to the addicted, just like a bartender has to cut off drunks. And I'd probably get fired. So yeah.
Google has 63.9% market share. That's way more risky.

They already got in trouble with the European union for promoting their own sites in search due to their market share.
Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba
What's even more telling is the downvotes to my previous comment. Am I going against the community standards in how I'm going about supporting a position? Is the data I posted so sinful that you feel compelled to punish me for posting it? Is the data wrong? Is the conclusion wrong such that you can articulate why, and where exactly the logic breaks down?

Or is it just that gun control, like drug legalization, is an emotional topic and not a rational one?
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Switzerland has a gun homicide rate of 0.50 per 100k population. The US rate is approximately 3.53 per 100k population.[0] So this begs the question, if the per capita gun ownership in Switzerland is 1/4th what it is in the US, why is gun homicide 1/7th? Are Americans just more homicidal than the Swiss?

Guns are certainly an issue but not the issue. If you cut American gun ownership by 75% you'd still have more per capita gun crime than Switzerland, why?

[0] Homicides, not all gun deaths. It's important to compare apples to apples.
Why is that important to you? Genuinely curious.
> but it's out of the reach of most programmers

It's actually really not all that difficult. There are lots of details, and understanding it all end to end is definitely a task most people will never do, but the issue is simply one of effort and motivation, not of fundamental difficulty.
Should we block LoL now then, or are it's communication tool(s) different for whatever reason?
According to the Wikipedia page at least, DDG claims to have 400 sources and their own crawler. Etc definitely applies.
Green bar EV caught me by surprise the other day, I did not know what it was and even checked the likes of Google to see if everyone else had one.

This did actually take me away from the checkout of the website I was on, so it kind of broke 'Don't make me think' for me in that instance.
Further you need a map to figure out where to go next. The locals all know, but to the uninitiated its a maze. So you get confused folks wandering into the wrong places all the time.
It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl.

You can't make this shit up.
Software Development Trends of 2017
i was just googling for these yesterday! this is great
I don’t know. Republicans had warned us that legalizing gay marriage would lead to widespread acceptance of pedophiles. And look now only a couple of years later the Republicans are fully supporting an alleged pedophile who is running for Senate. If you read that as more of a threat than a warning it all makes sense :)
Turbo – NPM client 5x faster than yarn
I think this comes about due to the fact that in the US there is a group defined as the "religious right". The simplistic opposite view is the "secular left" despite the religious / secular spectrum only being loosely related to the spectrum of political ideology. There is definitely a correlation, but it shouldn't be used as a basis of assumption regarding religiosity or political ideology.
I want to have a career with purpose and passion, not just hourly or salary pay. Sounds like a solid Platform!
> The recommendations doesn't seem that useful as I've already listened to many of the pieces

Good for you! Currently there are some 500 works that are marked as "masterpieces". Not necesarrily all of them are Mass in B minor or Mozart's requiem tier. You may be surprised that you can discover some great work you didn't know about using this button. I am currently planning to add some filters so you can get a random work from a filtered set (Genre, period, century, composers' country). Of course, it will be improved as more works are added. But for now, it works totally random from a filtered set of works that are marked as masterpieces.
Bitcoin Soars Past $13,000 as Futures Move Closer to Reality
Presumably they both had equal clock time - that is a standard chess rule so it would be surprising to see it different.
But if you follow the link the under the "components" section of your link you will see the link to the project proposal:

https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/blob/master/propos...

There they clearly state:

>"To run Kubernetes over AWS VPC, we would like to reach following additional goals:

Networking for Pods must support high throughput and availability, low latency and minimal jitter comparable to the characteristics a user would get from EC2 networking"
This is a mischaracterization of people who disagree with you and inhibits finding common ground and working together.

Opponents of gay marriage want strong families with good environments to raise children.

Opponents of drug legalization want to prevent the individual and societal harm caused by drug use.

Viewing opponents with that perspective helps find more effective ways of working together.

It's also interesting that advocates for those "liberal" items want to get the government out of individual choices, which is the same goal cited by "conservatives" against centralized health care/education, etc.
We're all human – appreciate the write-up.
> https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=137.0

I'm not one for all that "if you bought $100 of bitcoin in 2013..." stuff, but wow, that first sentence...

Though I guess if he had 10,000 to blow like that, he probably had a lot more, and probably isn't short of a few now. (Hopefully anyway.)

I think I'd rather be someone who paid 10,000 for two pizzas though (which I assume was more or less the going rate in 2010), than being one of the people who didn't or couldn't take him up on the offer - two days later and nobody had done it.
It's frustrating to keep seeing people use the phrase "buyback" when they mean "confiscation". In the US, at any rate, a "buyback" is voluntary. For linguistic comparison, the taking of land by eminent domain includes compensation, but one certainly would not say the government "bought" the land.
Consumers would need the ability to easily verify that the chemical composition of the product they purchased matches the manufacturers claim.
My understanding is you only need 33% of the hash power at any given time. Since PoW is only done as part of sending transactions, it probably takes less hash power than you'd think to cause problems.
The closed-source coordinator, presumably.
I totally agree with you. That's the reason we started to look for another way to deliver interesting and engaging content. And found academies.
I teach math at a community college. Your question is not so simple to answer. Much of mathematical teaching involves lying and not justifying statements. The details are often way more complicated than the idea.

It is "obvious" in the real numbers that if you multiply two numbers and get 0 then one of them must be zero. I doubt you could prove this. It's obvious simply because you are used to it being true. But it is not true for all algebraic systems. The algebraic structure of all 2x2 matrices can be viewed as an extension of the real number system and in the set of 2x2 matrices you can multiply two matrices to get 0 in which neither matrix is 0.

One of the goals of abstract algebra is to understand under what conditions certain properties hold in an algebraic system. To truly understand these things requires the oft mentioned mathematical maturity. But to get to the point of gaining this maturity requires just accepting what you've been told is true is indeed true.

We tell students in Calculus I that the function 1/x is discontinuous at 0. There's a break in the graph there. But, in reality, it is meaningless to talk about a function being continuous (or not being continuous) at a number not in the domain of the function. Indeed, in the standard subspace topology the function 1/x from R-{0} to R is continuous. But this nuance is way too complicated to get across to students in Calculus I so we fudge things a bit. This happens a lot at lower levels of math.

EDIT: So my point is that if your goal is to truly understand things then yes, Abstract Algebra is necessary. If your goal is to be operationally functional in working with polynomials over the real numbers then it isn't.
A more fair comparison would be to cap the hardware used at a certain cost. That's much more reflective of the real world. There are plenty of tasks that perhaps you could do more efficiently on a CPU for a given number of operations, e.g. maybe some graphics operations, but in practice it's completely irrelevant because a GPU gives so much more performance for the given cost. There's nothing special about an operation, but dollars do matter.