skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Hitler was still alive. If he had actually been dead I believe his successors would have tried to find a way to stopping the war.
Yup, web of information into a web of value which more closely replicates the real world.

Combine that with AR and VR tech among other wearables and sensors and we won't just be digital nomads anymore, our entire world will have become completely digitized.
> Interpretation

> Our findings show that, at 12 months, almost half of participants achieved remission to a non-diabetic state and off antidiabetic drugs. Remission of type 2 diabetes is a practical target for primary care.
Wow what a coincidence — I switched from Gmail to Fastmail exactly 1 year ago today.

I couldn't be happier. I mostly use native clients, but the Web client is a joy to use, and everything I've observed about Fastmail gives me confidence in their service.

I never used the Gmail-exclusive features like labels, so switching was pretty easy. I highly recommend it to anyone considering it.

Keep up the good work, guys.
Easily manage SSH and FTP connection with nodejs
MongoDB 3.6 is now generally available
Sweet! Buffalo looks really interesting. I was playing with Sails the other day, which is a Rails-like framework for nodejs, I will try Buffalo and try to compare the experience. Would you recommend Buffalo for a JSON Web API mobile backend project or would it be an overkill?
How does block time affect centralization?

I understand that more storage is a centralization pressure, but how does blocktime relate assuming the same number of transactions?
Awesome project!

Your cat looks like mine :)

Also, for the JavaScript fans: http://bcoin.io/ it's actually a full node implementation that can run in the browser (can if you have time and space for the blockchain).
Building a house isn't just one person ordeal either. It's a simplistic model in either case. A CEO for all intents and purposes does make all the decision in the same sense that any leader in most any circumstance makes "all the decisions". Even a company Commander in the military doesn't "make all the decisions", however they are most definitely responsible for all the decision they make for themselves and for their company.

Hell even at the very top the Commander in Chief doesn't make "all the decision".
Even though I know they're well-designed, I find Go's web templates hard to work in. So I avoid them.

My stack is basically:

- Postgres, using pq and sqlx

- A codegen ORM I wrote that scrapes schemas and generates CRUD and lookup functions for all my database types. I don't think dynamic ORMs like gorm are the way to go for Go.

- A session library I wrote a year ago, and simple Go wrapper handlers to require sessions, enforce authentication, &c, passing things like "current user" and "current session" down to standard net/http Handlers through Context.

- 10-or-so JSON utility functions I take with me from project to project.

- React, via create-react-app, so I all my templating is done in JSX.

- net/http/httptest for testing.
Because LN is flawed as an idea. Who wants to lock in their Bitcoin to a LN channel to pay only one entity on the other end repeatedly? It doesn't make any sense. If, and that's a huge if, you got a lot of people to lock their money up in various interconnected LN channels how do you route money through these channels in a way that is fast and inexpensive? No one has answered that question definitively.

LN proponents have put LN forward as this magical scaling solution were you can effortlessly transact Bitcoin off-chain both cheaply and inexpensively. The nontechnical believers have lapped it up not knowing that LN is an incomplete idea that starts with locking your coin up in one or more channels and end with some magical and as of yet undiscovered distributed routing network that finds a path through existing channels from channels you've already committed to, to channels your payee has committed to. That such a path exists, is cost effective and is reliable, in that your coins don't get stuck somewhere along the way, is an open question. In short, LN is half baked at best.
Yeah, from paywall to worse. NBD
Personally, the positive aspect I got out of cryptokitties is it exposed me to Metamask and how you can integrate blockchain in traditional web applications. It's not perfect (timeouts/slow x) but it's a cool insight at a potential future where ETH or other cryptos run financial transactions on the web.
Trends are hard to define.

The entity behind Kitties has some other high profile projects and media contacts. If they have something interesting to talk about, they can get people talking about. And even with a large staff of their own + friends - their incidental social network alone is enough to start some yammering.

I don't think a bad project can go viral, but many viral worthy projects simply don't go viral.
November 29th-December First Post Mortem – The Coinbase Engineering Blog
Natural monopolies exist, but they don't perpetually persist. They can fluctuate between monopoly, single firm with pricing power plus challenger(s), unstable market, and complete market collapse with no suppliers.

Legally protected monopolies are intended to avoid the latter state, especially where interruptions of service could have ripple effects on other industries.

I believe the legislative goal was never about costs or overbuilt infrastructure, but to ensure that at least one provider was always available. So they chose to mandate that there could never be more than one. For the sake of having a dial tone 99.99% of the time, they made the choice for everyone that phone service would cost more, for everyone, every day, forever.

Talking about "natural monopoly" is just a distraction. The de jure monopoly is about the difference between "no choice" and "zero choices". You may have made the same choice on a smaller scale when designing code that expects exactly one input instead of zero to N inputs. An alternate solution would be to operate a state-owned, not-for-profit utility, as the supplier of last resort, but that has its own problems, which may be more or less difficult than the monopoly problems, depending on specific circumstances.

Von Mises is a good economics resource for libertarian-leaning folks, but you can't trust any single macro-economist to get everything right. I'm actually not sure any single one of them is more than 50% correct, or even if their amount of correctness is stable over time. Markets have this annoying habit of integrating all information, whether true or false, and reacting to it. This includes everything that all economists in all schools have ever written. It truly is a dismal science.
Having your body weight under control helps in controlling diabetes. This finding is, however, not new. Here is a 2011 study [0] using the same 600 calorie/day diet. This study only had 11 people, the current study [1] has 298.

By reducing the calorie intake you lose the fat/weight, afterwards you can resume a normal diet. The calorie restricted diet seems to restart the pancreas, kicking in the insulin production. If you can maintain your weight you are good, else you will eventually have to go back to medicine. Guardian report on the 2011 study [2].

A reddit AMA with Roy Taylor of Newcastle University [3]. Previously discussed on HN [4].

[0] : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-011-2204-...

[1] : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jun/24/low-calorie-...

[2] : http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

[3] : https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/47psga/iama_hi_im_new...

[4] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699693
In this space it is very hard to tell the very smart people from the people who SEEM to be very smart. Getting that wrong can be expensive.
ssh2-promise is a powerful promise wrapper around ssh2 client. It supports all the ssh2 client operation such as connection hopping, exec, spawn, shell, sftp, open tunnel, open socks connection etc... in promisify way. It helps in caching the sshconnection, to reduce time, during connection hopping. It have reconnect logic, so that, once disconnected, it can retry the sshconnection, automatically.
It has promise wrapper around sftp operations too.
Same question was asked 6 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801996
Is this the same FCC Commenting System that sent API keys to anyone who asked?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/fccs-...
Aetna has ~50,000 people so this is 450m/50k = 9,000$ each for them not exactly nothing. CVS has more workers but they are paid less so 1,900$ means ~1.5 months of pay to someone making 7.25$ an hour before taxes.

I don't mean to suggest this is a significant issue on it's own, but high level executive compensation really does add up to a significant cost at large corporations. And really, this is just stock compensation he received other pay and benefits.
Is it possible that Tencent can save Snapchat?
Things developers say: A tech dictionary for product managers
Is there a way to use Echo where you're not using their weird handler interface, but rather just standard net/http Handlers?
ProtonMail doesn't have access to the decryption password as it is not transferred to the server. Instead the client sends a password that's derived from it: https://protonmail.com/blog/encrypted_email_authentication/
I may use a light sensor as a backup or even the primary driver for how bright the lights are. I just haven't gotten there yet.

You're spot on about connectivity, although I could potentially keep a table of sunrise / sunset times to reference while offline.

These outside lights were my very first foray into home automation after I'd moved into our new house. It's been working so well, that I just kept going with other things. Until this thread, I'd practically forgotten about the automation.
If someone else is running code you can't read on your device where you don't have root, it is someone else's device.

Failing this, we rely on the hope that companies can make more money off protecting our privacy than they can from exploiting our data. It remains to be seen which will win in the marketplace.
That did occur, but two points. First, any additional avenue for censorship is bad. Second, it's a completely different mechanism. There, if I recall right, web hosting companies refused to host the website. Worth noting, this can be routed around by hosting the website in other countries or even on one's own computers. Still I agree it's a form of corporate censorship.

However, the corporate censorship opened up by removing NN is much more direct and, I argue, frightening, because there are much fewer ISPs, and they can directly block users from accessing the site very easily. Once they start it will be very easy for them to grow their blacklists quickly. Further, it's actually in the direct business interest of these ISPs to block sites in many cases, which was not the case for web hosting. Finally, it's much easier for governments to step in and start censoring via this mechanism since they can control all ISPs in their own country -- not true for web hosting.
Isn't this 500m being paid from the value of the stock being sold? Therefore paid by CVS who is buying the stock? In that case, CVS is primarily a pharmacy company, which makes their money by directly selling drugs which heal the sick. So I believe your comment is entirely backwards, the 500m comes directly from healing the sick.
The OP is likely speaking of "Constraint Logic Programming(CLP)".

The set of CLP languages is generally implemented as a superset or add-on package(s) to a Prolog implementation. For example, SICStus Prolog and SWI-Prolog have CLP modules, e.g.:

https://sicstus.sics.se/sicstus/docs/3.7.1/html/sicstus_32.h...

http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clp

and "Constraint Handling Rules(CHR):

http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=chr

To the best of my knowledge the modules are written in Prolog. A look at those links will give you an idea of how CLP is used. There are modules available for CLP(X) where X is one of:

B = boolean,

Z = integers,

Q = rational numbers,

R = real(floating point) numbers,

FD = finite domains (see "CLP(FD) Constraint Logic Programming over Finite Domains"
http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/clpfd/clpfd.html )

etc.

One can understand how constraining the domain of interest (reducing the search space) to say, the integers, might make search more efficient.
This. I'm quadriplegic and the Amazon Echo has revolutionised my life for the better, I made a big full comment on the other thread on this topic on the front page right now so I won't repeat myself. But I'm a pretty good reason for these devices to exist.

Obviously they need more privacy controls, but so far they have been a unalloyed good for me.
That's not really a valid comparison. The real-world difference between $50 and $500 is much greater than the real-world difference between $50,000,000 and $500,000,000.

$450 to most of the population is a meaningful amount that could help pay rent/mortgate, buy food, pay for daycare, etc. $450,000,000 to someone who already has $50,000,000 just means stepping up to a megayacht.

Perhaps a more apt analogy would be the following:

Would you be happy if you Product Manager at work got a bonus of 10,000 times your salary for managing a wildly successful and profitable project to completion when you and your coworkers did most of the grunt work?
There's a quote from Douglas Adams - "Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things"; in the decade and a half or so since he wrote that, things seem to have moved even faster, and now I would possibly restate that to twenty-five.

Recently I've been reconsidering my outlook on new things, and though I dismissed Alexa as a fad, I now own two Dots, a couple of Hue bulbs, and some smart outlets. They solved some basic issues really well:

- No ceiling light in the living room, which is my apartment's entry, "Alexa, turn on floor lamp", beats walking across the room in the dark to find the foot switch

- My bedroom lights didn't have a dimmer, being able to say "Alexa, set bedroom to 35%"

- I have Sonos in most rooms, so I like to leave music for the dogs when I leave the house, "Alexa, play jazz music in living room", beats using the app on my phone

- "Alexa, what's the news?" to get five minutes of news from NPR in the morning is more enjoyable than looking at my phone

Anyway, my point is that a small investment resulted in me having some tech that, though minor, does improve my life. And this re-evaluating new things idea makes me feel less like an old curmudgeon (of thirty-eight).
Learn to build 6 figure income by building AI chatbots
Can a state AG not subpoena a federal agency?
How does one get started with contributing to OSS?
I always read articles about how it is beneficial to write open-source software to improve one's skill, but even though I want to do that, I still can't find projects that would be welcoming for a "beginner" (it's not that I am new to coding, but I've never done any work outside of college or coding competitions), so how do you guys find something to contribute to, and has it improved your skill?
Because this research exists, there can't possibly be a market for a security product whose threat model might not include a malicious hardware manufacturer?
I'm most interested in the built-in schema validation and join capabilities. Has anyone tried them out yet?
> Yes. Consider the amount of movement/exercise the average western person gets, it might even be life threatening.

You need to remember that an individual is not the average person. Yes, maybe it's damaging for the "average" person (though who really _knows_). But you can't say it's unreasonable for this poster specifically, unless you know their life.
To a significant degree, you're mainly buying precisely that culture of "you're (we're, i.e. the students themselves reinforce the culture, which is vital) gonna prep for the SAT, do well in school, and so on, because you (we) are going to college, period, and... oh, you're not applying there, are you? No no no, my grandpa's name is on a building at [more presigious school], apply there, I'll talk to a couple people. Oh, and come volunteer at [charity] with me a couple weekends, looks great, my mom's on the board and can get you something that looks more important on an application than what most people do there. Do you have an internship for the Summer? We'll talk to my dad next time you're over playing xbox, probably can hook you up" when you pay (through housing costs) for top-end public schools, or mid-tier-and-higher private schools.
FELCMSMRCS <- you are welcome, even if you never said thank you per our agreement.
I tried the Mozilla voice recognition through the Firefox addon. It was unusable, the recognition of words was very poor.

I really want an open source version, but there's not much point if it is not usable.
Vote them out.
Videogame about the mathematical beauty of Islamic art (2016)
Would you mind commenting on these findings? They seem to have found that both sides have been stuffing the ballot box: http://www.emprata.com/reports/fcc-restoring-internet-freedo...

Also, can you work on net neutrality for all bits? That is Google, Facebook, Twitter, as the main gateways to public discourse treat all comments equally without promoting one viewpoint over another that does not enjoy elite sanction?

What good is NN as it stands if edge providers can treat bits differently?

Basically NN says all bits _allowed_ to get to you by edge providers shall be treated the same, but it does not say edge providers have to allow all bits on their systems.

Thanks.
That's entirely orthogonal to smart devices. Tape recorders have been used for... a long time.
Yeah its crazy how far SRAM has come. I remember all the guys in our shop thought SRAM was a joke, who could compete with Shimano, right?

The rep all gave us full S9 (which I think now are the X line) setups and said, "Test it out, run into the ground. I'll be back in two months and see what you think."

Two months later, most of the shop was riding SRAM.
I have some go code that I’d like to be a little more flexible at runtime. Like a config file, but maybe with some conditional logic based on string matching. If this sounds like a proxy deciding which filtering functions to apply based on URL, that’s a good guess.

Interesting use case, reminds me of redis lua integration in a way.
On the flip side, you can also demonstrably prove that private keys stored on disk can be exposed with a minimal intrusion of your user account, also with no indication they were leaked.

Another layer of security is never bad.
why are we not just using bash scripts ???

-you can log output
-perfectly capable of handling your unique build style
-no setup (pretty much)
-just call the command lines of other tools like (less.c, yui-compressor.jar ... etc) for compliation tasks

talk about over engineering. The thing is that the reason we dont have 1 to rule them all now is because no one has ever objectively argued why one is better than the other.

If we could just get command line equilvalents for things like ember-cli that didnt require npm then we would be good. Npm is the thing holing us back , we dont need it to do command line processing. Its a bloated middle man. Please command line tool gods , offer your tool outside of the javascript eco system. Build it in java and export to jar or c and allow us to worry about the stitching

Question , what is the thing npm/grunt/gulp gives us that cannot be done with bash, if all the tools we used were command line executables?
Not sure if memes are diagnostic here. Even a sane moment these days has to resort to low quality clickbaity stuff if they want to get social media (or real life) traction.
question: why would you pay it off early? money (generally) gets cheaper over time and if interest is lower then inflation there is no reason to pay it off early as the debt becomes cheaper every year.
"someone basically bought a 256-bit number for $117,712.12"

The same could be said of Bitcoin. At least with Kitties you get, well, a Kitty :)
Thanks Schneiderman.

Thneiderman.
> John Conyers, accused of firing someone for refusing him sex

Not criminal. A basis for a successful lawsuit, but it wouldn't land him in jail.

> misappropriating official transportation for women he was having affairs with, among other things, which is criminal.

Fraud is criminal, but it's hardly a "sex crime."
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Not necessarily. Keep in mind when Ethereum started, it had no value. But with bitcoin, there is huge value and so potentiality for people to loose a lot of money if there was one minor bug.
If one discovers one's name has been used in fake comments, what can/should one do about it?
Degrees are cost prohibitive and there's no incentive to increase supply. Higher costs signal exclusivity and prestige - which I would argue is the true value of a degree. It's an item of luxury that is intended to open doors for you.

If we could objectively measure the tangible benefits of a degree and replicate it with a low cost alternative - it still wouldn't carry the same prestige because it's not exclusionary. I think the greatest barrier to truly accessible education is our status seeking behavior.
What makes this decision arbitrary or capricious? The administration and the FCC see a policy objective in deregulating the internet, just because you disagree with it doesn't make it arbitrary.

It's going to have definite winners (telcoms) and losers (tech companies) but that is true of literally every type of regulation.

There are respects in which, say, fracking is not the best thing for the public either (lighting your tap water on fire, etc). The party in charge gets to decide what the best interests of the public are, and what policies to use to achieve them.
No more having to glance at the clock on the wall (or the stove, or the microwave, or whatever) and mentally noting "in 20 minutes, it will be half-past".
Correct, because of federal supremacy. The state and federal governments are “separate sovereignties”, but not co-equal ones.
And how odd that in some situations that scarcity seems to breed value, in and of itself.

Humans are weird.
Been using them for a few years now and they're great. Some things I like:

- plays nice with mbsync

- sane system: real folders, not labels

- customer service with an IRL person

- identities feature
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI annotated
Could you please not post this off-topic flamebait on Hacker News? We're pretty hasty to ban accounts that do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
that's what http://rare.network is building and they'd love any feedback you have I'm sure! The Discord is full of some of the best minds in rare digital art, feel free to stop in and say hi.

(disclosure: advisor, board member)
That article page had a giant whiskey advertisement in the middle of it for me. I think I'd probably prefer to read about a topic someone was paid to write about than have intrusive ads I don't care about shown to me in the middle of otherwise interesting content.
I apologize for implying that your belief that anyone whose ever plead guilty or been convicted of a crime has suspect character an hour earlier was a reflection of your own character. I didn't realize that made us feel like enemies.
How do these comments harm real people? Definitely seems shady but I don't really see how using fake names actually hurt anyone.
That's an MMORPG for kids. You can go on quests, enter contests, chat with friends, post on their forums, make guilds, do battle against other pets, solve puzzles, trade on the NEODAQ, and make a little home. Pets cost a few bucks. Honestly from googling neopets it sounds an awful lot like a better version of club penguin.

With cryptokitties we're talking about 100K for a picture of cat. From what I've read the platform is dedicated only to buying and selling these cats.
> I see the same shit with real estate.

And that, famously, _never_ crashed.
Cute that you think this started in 2016...